This is another one of those posts that I wrote for only one purpose: Making something a little easier on someone else who may have to do the same thing. First, I will credit my ultimate source. Thanks Daniel for your post. I was able to read it and find the piece I needed in the middle. Here is the…
How to Search if a BC Company Legally Exists, is Active, and more
Probably my title will be longer than the body this time. I used search engines, and AI bots to try to find the answer to this and eventually found it on my own! Disappointing but real… If you want to quickly search to see the following about a company, then this is the post for you: If I a company…
Getting a Fresh Start by Backing up, Re-installing, Then Restoring What you Need on Ubuntu
It was hard to make a good title with proper English on this one because I wasn’t sure how to exactly describe what I’m doing here. Hopefully you located this blog ok and are trying to do the same thing I am. The Goal of This Exercise Every computer needs a new operating system ‘refresh’ at some point because of…
How to Fix PDF Engine Error Problem in Pandoc in Ubuntu
Intro All I wanted to do was to convert a markdown (.md) file to pdf for crying out loud. I heard it was possible and good to use pandoc. For years I ran the command I was supposed to. Looks like this: pandoc input.md -o output.pdf But all I got was this: pdflatex not found. Please select a different –pdf-engine…
SETTING UP STALWART WITH PODMAN AND QUADLET
SECTION 1 – BACKGROUND This document comes from my many attempts to make this work with podman-compose setup. I got it working and hope to document those details at a later date. I had to give up on that because when I exited the ssh session it would kill the server. I found this reddit post which made me conclude…
HOW TO CLEAR MAUTIC CACHE IN PODMAN
I had a challenge with my mautic landing pages when I did a fresh install using Podman. Part of the process that I thought was both useful and educational and worth leaving as a permanent post was how to clear the Mautic cache, especially using podman This mautic documentation page indicated that it may be required to a) clear the…
HOW TO GET MAUTIC LANDING PAGE BUILDER WORKING
THE BACKGROUND AND PROBLEM After much face-palming I finally got the html builders working on a fresh install of Mautic. Before that, when I went under “Components” and “Landing Pages”, and when I tried to open the builder function after selecting a template, all I got was a white screen with the tools on the right pane. When I clicked…
Mautic Contacts Import Export Template CSV
This will be one of my smallest posts. For some reason in Mautic, unlike most systems I’ve worked in, you can’t easily click and download a .csv ‘template’ of the fields that it uses. I was trying to create a test list in a spreadsheet and then import that test list (mainly for emailing of course) into Mautic and I…
How to Wipe Out a Podman Container with Podman-compose Setup
Its kind of a tricky post I’m making here because actually there is no difference between how you remove the containers whether it was created with podman-compose or otherwise. However, it took me a long time to figure that out and get the quick and simple answer so here is a blog to cut to the chase. If you created…
How to Get Set Up For Audio-Only Audiocasting
Of course I don’t use the word ‘podcast’ because its roots are associated with a large company that hasn’t done a lot of good for freedom in software (or hardware). So, you will read ‘audiocast’ and you’ll know what it means. The purpose of this post is to give you an open source and audio-only setup for recording, while also…