A trip to Museum of Science of Industry

Over the holidays we took a trip to Chicago to visit family and Cole and I took a trip to the Museum of Science of Industry. While I have been to Chicago a handful of times at this point, I had never made it to the museum so I was excited to go. [envira-gallery id=‘12918’]

March 12, 2024 · 1 min · 55 words · shelby

🧹 Format USB drive from macOS command line

If you ever need to format a USB thumb drive on macOS from the command line, this will get you going. The first command will show you the drives so you can figure out which one is the USB. You will want to swap out DRIVENAME for what you want to name the USB drive. diskutil list diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 DRIVENAME /dev/disk2

March 11, 2024 · 1 min · 65 words · shelby

🚪Finally painted the trim

The weather finally started to make a change for the best, so I could get out and paint the trim around the new door. Sadly I didn’t get a picture with out the tape… ohh well you can get the idea. You can check out the before and after with the slider below.

March 2, 2024 · 1 min · 53 words · shelby

☕ Still no caffeine, a follow-up.

I up and stopped drinking caffeine cold turkey on January 15th. It was not out of health concerns but more to see if I could do it. As mentioned, I have been upping my caffeine consumption into astronomical proportions and needed to reel it back in. It has now been over a month, and while I miss the taste of a good cup of coffee and various energy drinks, I no longer depend on any of them. ...

February 20, 2024 · 1 min · 172 words · shelby

💻 Mounting Samba share on Ubuntu

I’m mainly noting this here for myself, but perhaps someone else will find this information handy. Install package cifs-utils sudo apt-get install cifs-utils Create a folder to mount the share into sudo mkdir /media/Share Create a file with user credentials in your home directory. touch ~/.smbcredentials Edit the smbcredentials file username=smb_username password=smb_password Edit /etc/fstab sudo nano /etc/fstab Add the following line ( edit where necessary) //NASIP/shares/ /mnt/nas cifs iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/USER/.smbcredentials,vers=3.0,iocharset=utf8,rw,sec=ntlmssp,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 You can now mount the samba share with the command below ...

February 13, 2024 · 1 min · 85 words · shelby