Author: Matthew Heick

World of Nostalgacraft

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Total time played: 531 days, 5 hours, 38 minutes, 7 seconds
Time played this level: 23 days, 18 hours, 6 minutes, 47 seconds

Achievement Points: 33,735

Today I think I started losing interest in a game that I’ve been playing since my first achievement Duel-icious on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:19:23 -0500. The first class I picked was Rogue, my first server was Ravenholdt, and my first guild was Blackheart Legion.

The next guild I joined was one of the guilds that will connect me with friends, make decisions on server transferring, and finally being a part of a group of friends that would end up defining my purpose in a MMORPG and bringing me finally to this day.

This is my “story”

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Jack and Coke? How about John and CUDA (w/ Rocky 8.7 Live)

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In previous writeups such as xmrig with cuda for Rocky Linux 8.5 and nVidia CUDA with the wrong video card I’ve navigated Rocky Linux and Cuda. It’s now time to see if we can get John the Ripper CUDA’s components running on a Rocky 8.7 Live Workstation USB install.

Personally, I love projects like this. I started this on 1 8GB USB stick and quickly realized that not only the space required wasn’t enough but I’d need more to do what I needed. I ended up getting 3 SanDisk 32GB Ultra USB 3.0 Flash Drives from Amazon for $16.96.

The biggest help with the Live USB install is using balenaEtcher to get the 2.1GB ISO to an 32GB USB stick. Once that’s done we can boot directly to the Live OS and start our installs.

I did have some derps with balenaEtcher failing to burn the ISO due to a failure of diskpart not returning a positive result to the clean operation. To resolve this I had to use PowerISO to clean the USB volume before windows would properly do it’s clean operation. Minor note to PowerISO is that it contains bloatware during the install and a wrongly-clicked click can give you headaches.

Live Stuff

  • Booted up Rocky 8.7 Workstation Live Workstation from a USB to install Rocky 8.7 Workstation on a separate USB stick.
  • Root with password, user with password
  • rebooted into USB bootable
  • #win

Now onto the necessities to get to our final goal

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Mary Jane Harter Heick, b.8/Sep/1930, d.5/Mar/2023

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Mary J. Heick, 92, of Liverpool passed away on Sunday, March 5, 2023. Mary, the daughter of the late Ludwig and Elizabeth Harter, was born in Cleveland, Ohio on September 8, 1930. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Joseph T. Heick who died in 2004. Mrs. Heick retired from New York Telephone Company in Syracuse, New York following more than 20 years of service as a Billing Clerk.

She will be dearly missed and always remembered by her surviving family, a sister, Lillian Tokarz; sons, Tom, Bill (Brenda), James (Margie), Jerry (Michele) and John (Rosemarie) Heick; 16 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00am on Thursday, March 9, 2023 in St. Margaret’s Church, 200 Roxboro Road, Mattydale, New York. Entombment will be in Assumption Cemetery, Syracuse, New York. There will be no calling hours.

Sourced from https://www.traubfuneralhome.com/obituary/Mary-Heick

Findagrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/250239048/mary-heick