Saute 4 cloves of garlic in 1/2 cup olive oil. Add salt and 1 lb of medium shrimp (peeled and deveined). Cook for a few minutes until the shrimp is cooked. Add 1 Tbsp of lemon juice and 1 tsp of lemon zest. Toss with cooked garbanzo spaghetti. A quick, and tasty, meal.
Author: Lisa
Exchange SMTP – Sender Reputation DB
Our Exchange server was refusing mail
451 4.7.0 Temporary server error. Please try again later. PRX5
Attempts to send mail would connect, send data, and then hang for a few seconds before returning the tempfail error.
Looks like there’s “sender reputation” data stored at .\Exchange Server\V15\TransportRoles\data\SenderReputation that is used. Since I’m not actually doing filtering on the Exchange server, stopping the transport services, moving the files out of the folder, and then re-starting the services rebuilt the data and allowed mail to send again.
Cassava Gnocchi
About 1.5 cups of mashed cassava
1 cup cassava flour and 2 tsp salt
Mix together and add enough vegetable stock to make a dough — it rolled out very nicely, cut into nuggets and smooshed with a fork.
The gnocci was boiled for about three minutes in salted water then fried in olive oil to crisp up. They were really gelatinous after boiling. I think it would have been better to sit and dry before frying.
LSOF Scoped To Multiple PIDs
You can run lsof -p with a comma-delimited list of PIDs — but you can also transform the pidof output into a comma separated list of PIDs. Which means you can run lsof for all of the PIDs associated with a specific program. In my case, it’s rsync …
lsof -p “$(pidof rsync | tr ‘ ‘ ‘,’)”
Python: Partition and RPartition
Found a neat pair of methods that were added in Python 2.5 — it’s like split/index except it handles breaking the string into two elements for you. A tuple is returned with the part before the separator, the separator, and the part after the separator. If the separator is not found, element 0 and 1 are empty strings.
C:\Users\lisa> python
Python 3.13.3
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> test = “This is a string | with pipe characters as | delimiters in the string”
>>> print(test.rpartition(“|”)[0])
This is a string | with pipe characters as
>>> print(test.partition(“|”)[0])
This is a string
>>>
BBQ Pork
On my thought that the banana ketchup would make a good barbecue sauce, I cooked some pork this evening with the banana sauce. It is pretty good – although I might want to use a little less vinegar next time.
Linux: Getting Drive Serial Number
[lisa@FVD01 /mnt/lisa/]# smartctl -i /dev/sdc
smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-6.15.7-200.fc42.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Red (CMR)
Device Model: WDC WD40EFRX-68N32N0
Serial Number: WD-WCC7K4HY5TKD
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b9a3d0c5
Firmware Version: 82.00A82
User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database 7.5/5706
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Tue Dec 2 17:24:27 2025 EST
SMART support is: Available – device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
2025-12-02 17:24:27 [root@FPP01 /mnt/MythAndZoneminder/]# smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl 7.5 2025-04-30 r5714 [x86_64-linux-6.15.7-200.fc42.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Red (CMR)
Device Model: WDC WD40EFRX-68N32N0
Serial Number: WD-WCC7K7JZSZ0E
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 264576d5e
Firmware Version: 82.00A82
User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database 7.5/5706
ATA Version is: ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 5
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Tue Dec 2 17:24:38 2025 EST
SMART support is: Available – device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Pizza – AIP Style
The idea was to make a pizza-like meal without any wheat, tomatoes, or refined sugar. This crust didn’t work so well, and the sauce is more of a barbecue sauce than a tomato paste.
The dough was the Paleo Baking Flour from Bob’s Mill — recipe from the back of the bag. I added some ground flax seed. It was something, but didn’t hold up as a pizza crust.
Sauce was a “banana ketchup”
- 2 cups mashed ripe banana
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tsp ginger, minced
- 1/2 c apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 2 Tbsp coconut aminos
- 1/2 ground tumeric
- 1/2 tsp salt
- up to 1/2 cup water
Heat olive oil in a pan, add onion, garlic, and ginger and saute until onions are translucent. Add mashed banana and stir. Mix in remaining ingredients except water. Cool over low heat for at least 15 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Blend in a food processor until a smooth puree forms.
Fresh “sausage” – cube pork, sprinkle with salt and fennel seeds. Allow to sit for at least 15 minutes. Grind, saute until cooked.
Topped the dough with sauce, fresh sausage, and cheese (still working on a good AIP cheese replacement!). It was good, but not pizza.
Holiday IBC – Thanksgiving
Anya made a turkey silhouette from a black trash bag, and we glued (rubber cemented) it to our holiday IBC. The solar LEDs inside will illuminate it tonight. I think the turkey turned out wonderfully – she asked me a few times if I’d know it was a turkey. But, once we saw it on the plastic square, she loved it too.
Pasta – AIP Style
Sauteed one medium onion, a handful of baby carrots (mostly for color), and steamed cauliflower. Pureed all in a blender with ~1 tsp tumeric, salt, 1 Tbsp of nutritional yeast, and garlic (next time, roast the garlic … this just tasted like raw garlic!).
This created a sauce for the pasta
Cooked garbanzo bean pasta and added the sauce. Stirred and served.
So it kinda looks like noodles and cheese … but it doesn’t taste anything like mac and cheese.













