Fedora 37 – re-enable printing

My Fedora 36 to 37 upgrade when relatively well, after removing a few packages (flash_player_plugin, perl-Crypt-Primes, mlocate, gnumeric-plugin-extras, hex-chat, mod_perl, pcsc_Perl, perl-Crypt-Random, etc). However, my printer couldn’t be found, nor was plex visible. I found I needed to open the mdns and ipp-client firewall services for the network printer and the plex service.

updating to Trans Am Race Engineering Superlite wheels

CARiD seems to have the best information and availability of the Trans Am Race Engineering Superlite wheels, which are a good clone of the wheels on the Boss 302’s raced in the Trans Am series circa 1970. However there is confusion when it comes to the offset specs. Their site shows that a -8mm offset […]

Fedora 27 – MariaDB (mysql) #mysql50#.rocksdb errors

Recently I started encountering ” #mysql50#.rocksdb” errors with mysql. To solve this I stopped mariadb: systemctl stop mariadb edited /etc/my.cnf.d/rocksdb to comment out the plugin and added ignore-db-dirs=.rocksdb to /etc/my.cnf, then restarted mariadb systemctl start mariadb Now I can backup or query the database properly.

Judah, Indiana festival car show

My red ’69 Mustang was on the front page of the June 25, 2017 Herald Times newspaper! On the back page of the first section is a photo of Mason Sale looking at a custom truck. I’m standing beside him – behind the ’74 Dodge Challenger hood. Particpant trophy – very clever! My version of […]

P-51 whirligig — overkill

This is definitely on the overkill side. 1/7 scale P-51 built from cedar to be covered with 0.010″ aluminum. Needed to stretch the creativity brain-cells.