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Menger Cat Logo (digital)

I have converted the Menger Catboat logo from a physical copy to a digital format to the best of my abilities for use on sails or other products. You can download the zip file here.

The formats this logo is in are:

  • .psd
  • .png
  • .jpg
  • .eps
  • .svg
  • .pdf
  • .ai

Drop me a line if you found a use for it.

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Menger 19 Cat Sailboat Owners Manual

I scanned in the old Menger 19 Cat Sailboat owners manual to PDF to make it available for anyone who lost or needs it for their Menger 19 Catboat.

Download the manual in PDF format here

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ShortTrack Boot and Blade Alignment / Offset

Being relatively ‘new’ to the sport (I was young when I last did Short Track) and the advancements in Skate Boots and Blades, I’ve spent many hours reading forums, asking people on how to align and offset my blades on my boots. Unfortunately nobody really has a clear answer other then ‘whatever works for you’.

There has to be at least a starting point, so I finally found a good explanation with an example from Susan Ellis (see link below). This worked well for me.

Basics:

Both blades back: Align the blade at the center of your heal.

Right blade front: center of second toe

Left blad front: between second and third toe

Image: turn the skates over and this is the view you would have looking at the bottom of the skate

Source: http://www.ellismethod.net/setting-up-blade-offset.html

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Sony A7 JPEG Settings

I’ve been using my Ricoh GRIII for quite a while now and I love how the JPEGs come out of that camera. I prefer JPEG, instead of messing with RAW for hours, I simply don’t have that time.

In an effort to get similar effects or something different from my Sony A7xxx I decided to follow some great example I’ve found from Aron J Anderson

  • White Balance : Auto:White, Daylight, Cloudy, Incandescent, Flash, Daylight
    • A-B: A2
    • G-M: G0.25
  • Priority Set in AWB: White
  • DRO / Auto HDR : D-range Optimizer: Lv3

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZShdjAfuaM

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Ricoh GR III cannot import directly into Mac Photos

My Ricoh GR III camera shows up in Mac Photos when connected however none of the photos are loaded. There is some issue with the type of connection to the Mac.

The easy workaround is running Image Capture.app (just do a search for image capture in the search function on the Mac) and you can download the photos from Image Capture directly to Photos.

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MySQL my.ini performance

The following configuration in the my.ini for MySQL provided me with very decent performance. Especially on Microsoft Windows 10 with MySQL 8.X

innodb_buffer_pool_size = 256M
innodb_log_file_size = 1G
innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50
innodb_thread_concurrency = 0
flush_time = 300
innodb_read_io_threads = 8
innodb_write_io_threads = 8

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PHPMyAdmin slow in loading table list

When you have innoDB tables with many rows, InnoDB does not store the number of rows in a table but MyISAM does.

So for each InnoDB table PHPMyAdmin invokes SELECT count(*) FROM query which is very slow if number of rows is very high. To resolve this you should edit config.inc.php file and set $cfg['MaxExactCount']. This will invoke count(*) sql for tables that has less MaxExactCount rows.

Open \config.inc.php file and add these two lines of code in it:

$cfg['MaxExactCount'] = 0;
$cfg['MaxExactCountViews'] = 0;

Resource: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14027351/phpmyadmin-opens-mysql-table-lists-very-slowly/53140805

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Apple wireless Keyboard lag

When experiencing keyboard lag on your Apple wireless keyboards I found that resetting all connected apple devices resolved the issue. Simply removing / disconnecting the keyboard didn’t solve the issue.

Reset Connected Apple Devices

  1. Hold down the Shift and the Option keys and click on the Bluetooth icon in the top menu bar.
  2. Select Factory Reset all Connected Apple Devices.
  3. Reconnect (pair) your Bluetooth devices.
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High CPU usage by Google Drive

I’ve been noticing high CPU (20% and higher) by multiple google drive processes on an RDS Server. Killing Google Drive on the server did not fix the issue.

After further investigation it appeared that the users on the RDS server had Google Drive auto started but couldn’t use it as the screen would never show up to login. I’m guessing Google drive got into some weird loop or so. For each user on their desktop I went to the Settings > “Startup Apps” settings and disabled the auto start of Google Drive. This solved the issue all together.

The multiple high CPU processes created by Google Drive disappeared. This makes sense as I did not see just one Google Drive instance but multiples.

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Initialize MySQL 8 Data Directory on Windows 10

When installing MySQL 8 on Windows 10 you will have to initialize the data directory. Run a CMD as administrator and paste the following in

"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin\mysqld" --initialize-insecure --basedir="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0" --datadir="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\data" --console

Without the data directory being in initialized you will get messages like:

  • “Failed to find valid data directory”
  • “Data Dictionary initialization failed”