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a week in beautiful O’ahu , Hawa’ii 2

Feb

22

2023

Waikiki Bay in Honolulu,, in front of the statue of the father of Hawaiian Surf culture, Olympian Duke Kahanamoku Aloha, readers! Christine and I recently (Back in earlier December 2022) had the opportunity to explore the beautiful island of Oahu in Hawaii, and we had an amazing time. This was our second trip to the ...

Create ssh-copy-id script for Windows

Feb

21

2023

Those of us who use linux with keyless logins and ssh , usually find the utility ssh-copy-id as a convenient way to copy the ssh ke into the authorized keys files of the destination server. This works great on Linux systems, but windows (and also Mac) don’t have a native version fo ssh-copy-id, of course ...

Creating a digital “death / afterlife” file , passing along your important information 1

Feb

6

2023

While many of us probably don’t think much of our demise (or incapacitation) , inevitably it will happen, what’s worse particularly for our loved ones is when it happens unexpectedly , and with so much of our modern life lived online , there’s often a bunch of accounts and files the hold important financial , ...

AI conversational text model, ChatGPT, the end of Google? 2

Dec

9

2022

The latest rage sweeping the Internet circa December 2022 is chatGPT, What is chatGPT? Here I’ll let it (chatGPT) answer that question itself (The paragraphs below were created with this chatbot) Midjourney Generated Image ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/chat ) is a cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. It is a variant of the popular GPT-3 model, which ...

2022 HASHathon 6.2-Mile Trail Run

Nov

1

2022

This year I took part in the 41st annual 6-mile Trail Run Hashathon in the Cheesequake State Park Park in Matawan, NJ. This trail run is a fun and entertaining jaunt through the various trails of the Cheesequake State Park, the run is both challenging and fun, and can get rather slippery and muddy depending ...

Mid Journey , DALL·E 2 , Computer AI generated Artwork, possibilities and limitations

Sep

18

2022

In case you’re unaware , there’s a new crop of beta and public AI artwork generation technologies, that actually create some impressive looking artwork and imagery from relatively simple textual descriptions. Among the current crop of popular systems, these include: MidJourney, Dalle-E 2 , Stable Diffusion and many others… What these systems allow users of ...

Staten Island Triathlon 2022

Aug

23

2022

Back to Racing Two years post-Covid I went back to doing the local Staten Island Sprint Triathlon. This is a fantastic race for first timers, since its short, flat and fast. The road is closed during the race , and the swim is short and along the shore with lots of lifeguards This year, my ...

How to detect IP change and send email alert (bash & powershell)

Mar

18

2022

A common thing folks that run any kind of home server, need to do, is detect when they’re IP addressed normally a DHCP assigned address via they’re Internet server provider changes, by doing this is allows them continue to communicate with they’re server. Below are a couple of script one a bash script and the ...

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