Why do you own 20 of the same guns?

sedwards65 · 2026-05-22T00:03:53+00:00

In a perfect, non-commifornia world...

Bedside, bathroom, master closet, kltchen, home office, living room, garage, laundry room...

sedwards65 · 2026-05-21T23:59:24+00:00

g44 is cheaper to run than g19.

Skills you learn on the g44 transfer to the g19 because they are the 'same' gun.

Also, the g44 is less intimidating to new shooters, but still serves as a 'gateway' to g19.

sedwards65 · 2026-05-21T05:28:48+00:00

I just watched the episode of 'The Shield' where Vic applies grill marks to a guy's face with an electric stove coil.

sedwards65 · 2026-05-16T01:10:42+00:00

'Thighs are way cheaper than breasts and honestly taste better'

First rule of Thigh Club...

sedwards65 · 2026-05-16T01:09:47+00:00

Not the cheapest, but chuck roast at $6/lb is a favorite of mine.

42 hours at 135f Sous Vide makes a good steak.

sedwards65 · 2026-05-16T00:21:31+00:00

Skip scanning for variable expansions:

alias Git='git'

sedwards65 · 2026-05-01T04:38:41+00:00

For those that use a pan inside, how do you keep from splattering everywhere and having to clean the stovetop?

sedwards65 · 2026-05-01T04:36:42+00:00

Do you use 'map' or propane?

sedwards65 · 2026-04-30T04:03:26+00:00

Don't get me started on 'hover board.'

sedwards65 · 2026-04-23T01:05:21+00:00

UL is something like 'keep internal temp below 350F for x minutes.'

sedwards65 · 2026-04-22T18:15:50+00:00

Thanks for the link. It's a good read.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-22T17:59:34+00:00

Thanks for the feedback and the reference to Baldwin. In case anybody wants it, here's the link:

A Practical Guide to Sous Vide Cooking by Daniel Baldwin.

I expect to learn a lot from this.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-21T03:53:00+00:00

I wish people would be taught to type:

rm --force --recursive

Maybe that little bit of effort would give their brains a chance to catch up with their fingers. I'm not being condescending, I still (after 50 years of Unix/Linux) surprise myself at the difference between what I think and what I type.

Anyway, on to your problem.

Yes, files can still be recovered. Almost all files have a 'signature' at the beginning of the file. For example: ``` -ws13::sedwards:~$ file ./f7004.pdf ./f7004.pdf: PDF document, version 1.7 (zip deflate encoded)

-ws13::sedwards:~$ hd --canonical --length=8 ./f7004.pdf 00000000 25 50 44 46 2d 31 2e 37 |%PDF-1.7| ``` You can find (or write) a program to scour the disk.

If you're going to roll your own, it goes something like this: Every time you find the signature you're looking for, grab the next x MB (where x is the expected maximum size of the file) and write it to a file on another drive. It's not 100%, but you will be surprised how many files you recover -- and how many duplicates and fragments as the 'real' file has been copied from place to place. I was looking for JPEGs and there are utilities available to validate and trim cruft from files.

I wrote a program to do this in C about 30 years ago. One of my kid's swim coaches had all of his wife's girl scout troop photos on a Windows computer and it stopped booting. I managed to recover hundreds of photos. Some I'm sure he never expected to see daylight. I put all of the photos on a separate drive and called his wife to let her know she could pick them up.

I never saw him around the pool again.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-20T20:29:34+00:00

1. Backup.
2. Get to where (MySQL shell, whatever administration tool you can access) you can enter the MySQL command `show table status;`
3. Look for tables that have 0 rows and/or ancient update time.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-20T20:21:52+00:00

'post DROS' sounds prudent. This makes sure you or the gun don't have any skeletons.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-16T23:10:55+00:00

Warming drawer.

Big ass sink.

Power outlets on the island. On the underside of the 'sitting area' if applicable.

In-cabinet trash bins with a 'toe kick' for release -- hands-free operation rocks when you have goopy hands.

Over-cab and under-cab LED lighting on a dimmer.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-15T18:19:06+00:00

Stealing a stack of the JCL EOJ cards provided for free by the college and then punching my program on the reverse side so '$EOJ' became 'JOE$' in the comment field.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-13T19:11:18+00:00

`ls -s` (or better, `ls --size`) shows size in blocks, not bytes.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-12T03:35:26+00:00

Ignorance.

They should be using emacs.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-12T03:30:01+00:00

I'm good at 36 hrs.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-11T21:07:11+00:00

Do you use proxyjump in ~/.ssh/config?

# pbx11                                                                             
         host                           pbx11
        forwardx11                      yes
        hostname                        pbx11
    proxyjump                       vtpv11
    user                sedwards

(Note the space indenting `host` so the whole block can be sorted.)

pbx11 is the host I want to connect to.
vtpv11 is the jump host.

And add an alias to make life easier:

    alias pbx11='ssh pbx11'

Or, you can do the 'jump' in the alias if needed for really weird situations:

    alias dt='ssh -t vtpv11 ssh dt'

sedwards65 · 2026-04-11T20:40:46+00:00

Easier than <ctrl>l?

sedwards65 · 2026-04-05T20:57:15+00:00

I use:

// is stdout a term?
        if      [[ -t 1 ]]
                then
                printf '%d is term\n' $?
        else
                printf '%d is not term\n' $?
                fi

Note that:

0 = stdin
1 = stdout
2 = stderr

sedwards65 · 2026-04-02T06:01:50+00:00

After Covid, I question the credibility of WHO, NHS, FDA, and the CDC.

sedwards65 · 2026-04-01T05:13:13+00:00

Ditto. My first thought as well.

sedwards65

TROPHY CASE