Jul 23, 2020 Posted by newlife007

How To Create Bootable Installer for macOS Catalina

Introduction So the time has come and you want to re-image your MAC, but you need the boot media to install a clean copy. In this post we will cover how to create a bootable USB installation of macOS Catalina (10.15). The process is not very complex which we will cover. Getting Installation Code First step is to get the macOS Catalina app and install it to you system. open the macOS Catalina page on the... read more

Apr 30, 2020 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Reaper on Ubuntu Studio 20.04

How To Install Reaper on Ubuntu Studio 20.04 Introduction So, it’s been awhile since I have played around with Ubuntu Studio and I have always like the distribution in the way it is packaged and the realtime kernel for Audio, Video and Graphics tasks. One of my favorite DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) is Reaper. In  the past to run Reaper you had to use WINE or other methods but as luck would have... read more

Oct 15, 2019 Posted by newlife007

Use PowerShell to Get Drive List and Capacity

Use PowerShell to Get Drive List and Capacity Introduction Just a simple post with PowerShell. Had a bunch of Windows servers that needed to get a list of local drives and display the size of the drive and the freespace on the drives in GB. To achieve that decided to use Win32_LogicalDisk call in PowerShell. select a few of the available fields and do a little math. The Code What is Win32_LogicalDisk? The... read more

Sep 19, 2019 Posted by newlife007

How To Disable Firefox Captive Portal Detection

Introduction After a recent upgrade started seeing an Open Network Login Page popup on Firefox. Clicking the “X” by it just cleared the box and did not stop me from going about my merry way. The box did keep popping up so with a bit of digging found this was being caused by Firefox Captive Portal detection.  Since I knew I was on a secure wireless it made sense to disable the popups. Process... read more

Jul 14, 2019 Posted by newlife007

Installing HuffyUV on Windows 10 64 Bit

Installing HuffyUV on Windows 10 64 Bit Introduction this is not a long post but I it hopefully is a helpful post. HuffyUV is a very fast, lossless Win32 video codec. “Lossless” means that the output from the de-compressor is bit-for-bit identical with the original input to the compressor. It is a video codec I use a lot with video restorations using VirtualDub. In this post we will cover... read more