Strav's blog

I'm not certain if I will be able to repair the engine in the LeMans.  I was talking to someone about this and they brought up S&J Engines which sells complete Pontiac engines (rebuilt) for a very reasonable price.  

With my current low carb diet, I sometimes run into situations where I don't have much in the way of options for meals.  I found this article on cooking ground beef in the microwave and was quite impress with how well it turned out.  Essentially, the key is to cook the ground beef at 50% power (5 minutes, stir then 5 more minutes then 1-2 minute increments at a time until done).

Occasionally, I forget to record passwords for items I connect to in SecureCRT.  This lets me view the (hidden/encrypted) passwords so I can record it and log in via other means.

Reveal password encrypted by SecureCRT

Go to Preferences -> Settings-User and add there: “update_check”: false

Note there should be a ',' after that line UNLESS it is the final line in the block.

The Fedora 22 bug is: KDE root apps fail to render using X w/o root rights

To run Beyond Compare as root on Fedora 22 without the screen blanking, run the following commands in a terminal:

su
export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=native
bcompare