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Blogs / Re: Linux programs and Bash scripts to consolidate photos and begin a slideshow
« Last post by Dragon on August 26, 2024, 22:49:56 »
Unfortunately, OneDrive and User Account Control seems to make it more difficult to backup files now. Since my last update on this thread, I got a new computer with Windows 11. I had a few files that I wanted to backup to my external storage drive. Robocopy would run, but it wasn't picking up any of my new files that were in my Documents (under OneDrive by default now) folder. I tried multiple settings, even got the files so that they were local and not just in the OneDrive cloud, unlinked OneDrive, and still it was having trouble copying the files. I found that it was just easier to install Cygwin with rsync.   

It took a bit to sort out which directories I wanted to exclude, since I don't need all the extra AppData that Windows wants to keep, but I do want most of the other stuff within my User directory. I eventually came up with this:

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rsync -avhk --dry-run --exclude "AppData/*" --exclude "Application Data" --exclude "Local Settings" --exclude "ntuser*" --exclude "NTUSER*" --exclude "Recent/*" --exclude "*.lnk" --exclude "LocalLow/*" --exclude "Cookies/*" --exclude "Searches/*" --exclude "SendTo/*" --exclude "Start Menu/*" /cygdrive/c/Users/drago/ /cygdrive/d/Nathaniel/ >> /cygdrive/d/Nathaniel/rsync.backup.20240826.log
And after the dry-run was confirmed...

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rsync -avhk --exclude "AppData/*" --exclude "Application Data" --exclude "Local Settings" --exclude "ntuser*" --exclude "NTUSER*" --exclude "Recent/*" --exclude "*.lnk" --exclude "LocalLow/*" --exclude "Cookies/*" --exclude "Searches/*" --exclude "SendTo/*" --exclude "Start Menu/*" /cygdrive/c/Users/drago/ /cygdrive/d/Nathaniel/ >> /cygdrive/d/Nathaniel/rsync.backup.20240826.log
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Blogs / Re: Raspberry Pi and Python
« Last post by Dragon on June 16, 2024, 13:44:22 »
Still having trouble with the wifi adapter this time. Trying to connect to internet via ethernet cable to another one...

https://medium.com/@wendysanarwanto/sharing-internet-connection-to-raspberry-pis-wired-to-local-network-937d864fe205
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Blogs / Re: Raspberry Pi and Python
« Last post by Dragon on June 15, 2024, 17:02:47 »
Quote from: Dragon on November 01, 2023, 18:05:27
Looks like the Ralink firmware isn't the right thing for this hardware. Running a different command, lsusb, I see [Zydas ZD12118] at the end of the line for the Belkin Components, so I'm going to try installing the zd1211 firmware, which is actually the same one mentioned on page 56 in the book I got.

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sudo apt-get install firmware-zd1211

Tried this on a Rasberry Pi with Pi-Top installed and I was getting errors that it couldn't be found so I started looking around online. I found it on https://salsa.debian.org -
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/zd1211-firmware/-/archive/debian/master/zd1211-firmware-debian-master.zip
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General Discussions / Re: 3D Printer Projects
« Last post by Dragon on June 08, 2024, 09:22:32 »
Looking for some SD Card holders?

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4808044 (Floppy Disk Micro SD Card Holder)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4871695 (USB and SD card holder - looks like a door/cabinet)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4221435 (Mechanical Iron Man SD Card Holder (Updated))
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1418159 (SD Card Box - holds 6 full sized SD Cards plus added space)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5939958 (Print in Place SD Card Box)
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6051482 (Bigger print-in-place SD Card Box)
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General Discussions / Re: 3D Printer Projects
« Last post by Dragon on March 01, 2024, 23:30:27 »
Here's a set I might print since I recently introduced my brother to the OGRE game: Low-Poly Game Pieces for OGRE at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2520770

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General Discussions / Weirdest Chess Sets Ever
« Last post by Dragon on March 01, 2024, 22:11:20 »
I just came across the weirdest chess set I've ever seen...  well, not in person, but on thingiverse.com, the Finger Chess Set  https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6493504

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General Discussions / Re: 3D Printer Projects
« Last post by Dragon on January 01, 2024, 23:30:21 »
Hero figures for Horrified
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4817414
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Blogs / Board Gaming Into 2024
« Last post by Dragon on January 01, 2024, 23:08:00 »
Finishing out 2023 was fun for me. My wife and kids, a friend of our son (who has nearly been like a second son to us at times), along with my youngest brother, all got together and played a few games at the end of the year. After we had played a long game of Paladins of the West Kingdom, we played Scattegories a couple times in the late hours of December 30th before calling it a night. The next day, the gaming continued.

I recently got a boardgame about classic movie monsters called Horrified. I hadn't played it before, but yesterday I got it out and played it with my son and my brother. It is a co-operative board game, with a deck of monster cards which determine when villagers will appear, when the monsters will move and attack appear and other events. The players will win or lose together as a team.

The first game of Horrified put us up against Dracula and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. We got hooked. We finished our first game late on December 31st and we decided right away that we wanted to play again. Due to the New Year celebration, we took some time to go outside and enjoy watching the fireworks that were launching in our neighborhood. We decided to watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation since my brother had never seen it before, then we decided to resume gaming the next day.

After having breakfast on the first day of the new year, we got back to Horrified again. We played against Dracula, Frankenstein and the Bride, along with the Creature from the Black Lagoon and we managed to beat them with the Terror Level of the town only getting to 4, which was 1 higher than our first game that had only 2 monsters. We played again right after that, against the Mummy and the Invisible Man, and although it seemed tough to beat those monsters, we still won with the Threat Level at only 1. Our confidence was pretty high at that point, so next we took on Dracula, Frankenstein and the Bride, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the Wolf Man, but they destroyed us. As our final game to ring in the new year, we played once more against Dracula, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the Wolf Man. This time the town reached Terror Level 5 and we were only 3 cards away from the game ending with the Out of Time condition, but we won and it was awesome!

By the way, in 2023 I played 60 different board game titles. I played the average game twice throughout the course of the year for a total of 120 game plays. 15 titles were played at least 3 times, while Dune: Imperium was the most played game of the year, with 10 plays!
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General Discussions / Re: 3D Printer Projects
« Last post by Dragon on December 19, 2023, 20:55:15 »
From a list of 50 Cool Things to 3d Print for November 2023 (https://all3dp.com/1/useful-cool-things-3d-print-ideas-3d-printer-projects-stuff/), here are a couple things that I hadn't seen before...

3-digit combination safe (https://www.printables.com/model/259699-safe-box-3-digit-combination)
Squeeze powered fan (https://www.printables.com/model/157894-squeeze-fan-ruggedized
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General Discussions / Re: 3D Printer Projects
« Last post by Dragon on December 12, 2023, 21:59:38 »
I found some great tips in this video by Maker's Muse about making custom attachment pieces with the 3d printer. https://youtu.be/uJxv5qARXV4?si=TzVd8F_E_xT3HXL8
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