Saw a log entry from 2004 (old memories) that said… Invoke Cups GUI with browser…http://localhost:631 I did and…it still does! Because of the price of ink the only thing I use my printer for these days is to scan.
Monthly Archives: January 2023
Wayback Machine – My old website
Wikipedia says the Wayback Machine which archives old web sites, launched to the public in 2001. Looked up my old site starting from 2001…Working Web Designs. I hated that name because it implied that I was some type of web designer. It was just a place to play. So I changed the name to billslittlewebsite.com. …
Python PIL stopped working
Tried to run an old working program that displayed images. But got errors saying the img.show() type was none or nonetype. But obviously it wasn’t because the prints below worked. So googled and found the simplest 3 line example (I added the 2 prints)… from PIL import Imageim = Image.open(“/home/bill/Pictures/Computers/H11.png”)print(“Type is”,type(im))print(im.format, im.size, im.mode)im.show() So for …
Interesting X-Plane 12 article
Saw this on Twitter.
Julia…Time to first plot
Saw this on Twitter today… Time to first plot in #JuliaLang: v1.8: 5.9 seconds v1.9: 0.56 seconds 2023 already shaping up nicely…
AMD graphics card for X-Plane 11
I would kind of like to upgrade my Nvidia graphics card to an AMD card. Because I heard AMD was a better choice for Linux. When X-Plane 11 came out there didn’t seem to be an AMD option. However here in early 2023 I found this article. And out of 17 cards they recommended/rated 3 …
Learned about dumpcap
A more efficient way to capture network traffic than running the heaver Wireshark Gui program. Of course you later use Wireshark to look at this data. Dump packets to a filename appended with a seq # and time info. Cycle through 10, 5000 byte files overwriting the oldest… dumpcap -i 1 -w ~/packets/sample.pcapng -b filesize:5000 …