Saturday, July 27, 2024

When evince says ‘Unable to open document "<BLAH>". PDF document is damaged’

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During the past few months I’ve been “Docusign”ing things, and the website lets me download the finished document, which is great. But unti...
Thursday, July 04, 2024

Flushing a toilet on SBB CFF FFS intercity trains: a guide for the perplexed

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TIL how to do it. Basically, press the "WC" (dark letters on white background) on the wall to the right of the toilet; see image ...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

“Our heat pump water heater isn’t heating!”

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Dear Dad, Last night, Carol called to me from the bathroom: “Our heat pump water heater isn’t heating!” Yep, we had one of those insta...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Suddenly my automounts don't work... and a hack fix

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The server, p64, is debian 11 (bullseye); the client is mac os x (darwin kernel version 23.1.0 Mon Oct 9 21:27:27 PDT 2023. Automounts use...
Monday, January 30, 2023

Can't pull Kenmore 790.47892602 builtin oven from its cabinet?

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Like the person in this doityourself.com post , I had a problem where the oven stopped heating after being put through a cleaning cycle. ...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

assimilating a new (to us) imac: SMTP mail

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So the mac mini is almost a teenager so we got a new box. According to "About this Mac" it's "iMac (retina 5K..., 201...
Monday, July 25, 2022

upgrade debian stretch → buster → bullseye

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I hate upgrades, but python3 on my debian stretch box doesn't grok f-strings , because its python3 is python3.5; fstrings were added ...