California Tools Compressor - Valve causing breaker to trip?

These are great oil-less air compressors and they are very quite for what they do.   After years of service, this one started randomly tripping the 20amp breaker but would work most of the time to bring the tank up to pressure.

After taking the head off, I saw that the inlet check valve had a chuck of its metal missing and thereby causing it to leak compressed air.  This probably caused an air-lock situation on one of the pistons which caused the motor to bind up which then tripped the breaker.

These thin pieces of metal are a whopping $40!   But, so far this $500 California compressor has been worth it!   I don't know where the metal piece went but it's working again.

49ers 23 - Cowboys 17

Dak makes a run for it, eating away precious seconds.....







 
 






 

Logitech keycap letters are horribly weak

The ASCE keys and others wear out way too quickly on QWERTY keyboards.  I can't help but believe that Logitech knows this with the hopes for consumers to repurchase keyboards over and over.
I purchased water applied decals but those didn't stay on more that a day.

So I purchased a new keyboard and, this time, coated it with Rustoleum clear primer.   I cut open the bag the keyboard came in and tape around the keys to avoid spraying on the special function keys and the palm rest pad.  You can see the spray lines.

Hopefully this will lock in the factory lettering permanently.   I'll know in about 8 months of use if this experiment worked.

Preserve first X characters of each line in Notepad++

In notepad++, press CTRL-H.
This regex example will chop off every line longer than 200 characters:

Postfix Autostarts and delivers local mail

I had a Mac Folder action setup to call a shell script.  Within the shell script is a mail -s command send send an email out.   The problem is that a normal unix-based system, such as the MacOS, doesn't have a mail system running to help you deliver mail.   However, it comes pre-installed with Postfix and a simple edit to:
/private/etc/postfix/main.cf

with the line:
relayhost = smtp.myabcdomain.com

is all it takes.   But I thought I had to do more.  I ran the mailq command and it said "Queue report unavailable - mail system is down".  I ran netstat -a -n |grep 25 and saw nothing LISTENing on port 25.

To my surprise, just running the mail -s command to send an email will automatically start the service, listen on port 25, delivery the mail, then shut down the postfix service automatically.  Knowing that, then I'm good. This saves me from learning how to permanently start postfix daemon and I don't care about bounce back messages as the smarthost will handle that.

Here you can see the mailq command works fine just after sending an email. and Port 25 will close after about 30 seconds.
  

Felt the need

 Reality: A compromise of a state or local government system does not necessarily mean election infrastructure or the integrity of your vote has been compromised.

  Rumor: If state or local jurisdiction information technology (IT) has been compromised, the election results cannot be trusted.

Marina Fox and Youtube have passive aggressive desires to link to "Rumorcontrol" https://www.cisa.gov/rumorcontrol whenever Trump speaks.

Yet, they assure you with "not necessarily".   That's bogus.  If you've been compromised, then you should assume an integrity problem.  That's just common sense, people.

Browser UI Chaos

Although I encourage users to run various browsers, getting to the Options and Settings menus can be confusing. 

Get real Coleman

Payment Gateways are Killing Us

Also Venmo, you're not even answering the phones because of COVID-19.   How are you even in business?

Firefox is Woke and goes Broke

Mozilla states, "Firefox is removing terminology from the browser that has been identified as derogatory or exclusionary."



Yet, in Tools->Options->Logins and Passwords, the struggling browser company is still insensitively displaying that evil "M*ster" word right there for us to read.  The "Learn more" link is there for you to LEARN, you unwoke user you!

A letter of complaint undoubtedly landed on Mozilla CEO Chris Beard's desk describing how painful the m-word conjurers up memories.  So he took action!  He knew as well as we did that social healing is of the utmost importance to a HTML rendering engine.

I will now take the torch to help eradicate the m-word from all civilized industry:

1. Auto Mechanics:  You shall refer to the Master Cylinder of the brake booster now as the "brake hydro cylinder -BHC".
2. Electricians: You shall refer to Master Switches as Primary Switches.  NO EXCUSES.
3. Transformer Engineers: Primary Windings is correct.   Very good.  You didn't call is Master Windings or some hurtful pejorative like that.
4. No more Master Jedis... because The Last Jedi was supposed to be it.  I didn't know Yoda and Mace Windu owned slaves!  Shame on you Samuel L. Jackson (and Jim Henson)!
5. The Master's Cup......  don't go there....
6. FedEx, the master tracking number lingo has to go! I refuse to track packages now.

7. Mad Max: You shall refer to Master Blaster as just Paul Larson.  That goes for you too Tina Turner.

In other IMPORTANT news....

Firefox usage is down 85%

Also, a tech company just called and offered a whitepaper for me to read.... I triggered, "WHITEPAPER"!

Thanks, Firefox, for exposing the tech sector's cruel insensitivities.