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Poker

How Washington State poker laws affect structured games

tarah / August 24, 2015

In Washington State, no limit holdem cash games are illegal. You cannot find it even in Native casinos. In addition, online gambling is illegal here. These limits (pun intended) mean that poker players, even the very best at no limit,…

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Linux, Programming, Scripting

Howto: Fix MySQL Server dependency problems on Ubuntu LTS

tarah / July 27, 2015

Have you encountered this error? An error occurred while setting the password for the MySQL administrative user. This may have happened because the account already has a password, or because of a communication problem with the MySQL server. Or maybe…

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Hacks, Mac, Scripting

Automator will not save service in General in Yosemite OSX for keyboard shortcuts

tarah / July 10, 2015

You might have had the same problem I just did: I tried to create a global hotkey shortcut command situation for popping up a new mail message. I’m trying hard to only look at my inbox Xx/day, but I often…

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Hacks, Hardware

How to set up a TP-LINK router on Apple/Mac

tarah / July 3, 2015

TP-LINK routers are best sellers on Amazon, and I like my new one a LOT. I had a 5-year old Vizio router that did yeoman’s service, but had started to drop connections and in general behave like an amnesiac hash…

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Google, Hacks

How to get a short link from a Google Maps location

tarah / June 4, 2015

The Google Maps interface has changed, and it’s hard to tell how to share a location from a dropped pin or a business you want to find.Perhaps you’d like to make an easy short link to your house that you…

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Hacks, Mac

Completely remove CrashPlan from your Mac

tarah / April 7, 2015

Have you tried to delete CrashPlan from your Applications folder and gotten the message that the “CrashPlan app is locked” in a popup? Here’s the solution: Shut down the CrashPlan app in the system tray. You may need to elevate…

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Encouragement, Hacks, Web development

Redirect timewaster sites with 3 Chrome extensions

tarah / June 30, 2014

I have a lot of sites that by themselves, aren’t terrible for me. I won’t spend hours on Facebook or Buzzfeed or Twitter or Gawker or Huffington Post…but I have found myself spending hours on Facebook AND Buzzfeed AND Twitter…

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Hacks, Linux

Defaults changed for OpenSSH config in Kubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

tarah / June 3, 2014

I rebuilt a box this morning, and when I installed openssh-server, I found a different option set as default in the config file–one that I believe is less secure. Where previously, the default Authentications section looked like this: # Authentication:…

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Linux, Scripting, Uncategorized

Your private ssh keys do not copy over with a sudo dolphin! You must use bash in Kubuntu.

tarah / August 15, 2013

I’m glad I keep good backups. When backing up your Kubuntu box, do not just drag and drop one home folder from a hard disk to another hard disk. Your ssh keys will not be copied over, even though you…

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Hacks, Linux

How to play Amazon Instant Videos on Ubuntu/Kubuntu Raring Ringtail 13.04 with Firefox

tarah / May 18, 2013

We’re all aware that there are issues with Flash and playing streaming videos on Linux. You can’t play AIV on Chrome; you’ll get that annoying “If you’re using the Chrome browser with Linux, you must disable PPAPI to continue using…

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