Background I was trying to get the IP address of one of my podman containers. I was using this command over and over with much pain (and no gain): podman inspect -f ‘{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}’ <container-name> Journey to the Solution Finally, after much frustration, I resorted to AI shameful face ChatGPT told me this: “The command podman inspect -f ‘{{…
How to Use Bitbucket as a Backup Tool for Upgrades and Changes to Server
I had never heard of Bitbucket before to be honest. Turns out it’s a kind of ‘private repository thing’. And you can get a free account to start. Pretty nice. I was asked to ‘put your files into Bitbucket’ by a development company. I didn’t know how so I figured I’d just figure it out and then make a blog…
CRAZY 550 VERIFICATION FAILED NO SUCH USER SENDER VERIFY FAILED PROBLEM AND SOLUTION
THE PROBLEM I wanted to walk through the play-by-play because this was not a normal troubleshooting episode and I feel someone else is going to discover this post and be glad to save the time I lost. Spoiler alert: The problem was old cpanel records! But it’s worth spending the time going through this post in detail… I also wanted…
How to Delete or Remove Completely an extra page in Inkscape
First, all credit where credit is due. Inkscape is awesome. Amazing vectored graphics program and with the new GUI update, it’s looking and feeling really nice. However, this one situation sucked 10 minutes of my time TWICE, so I’m writing a blog on how to do it in case this happens again. For whatever reason, whenever I load Inkscape these…
FENESTRANIMIUM PERENNIALTREPIDUM DEFINED
This will be my second shortest post ever followed by my first shortest here. I just wanted to log this into history since I couldn’t find any proper way to explain this. Official Clinical Term Official clinical term: fenestranimium perennialtrepidum Official Description Official description: The ongoing feelings of anxiety associated with an excessive number of applications or windows being open…
PERDERATABAPHOBIA DEFINED
This will be my shortest post ever. I just wanted to log this into history since I couldn’t find any proper way to explain this. Official Clinical Term Official clinical term: perderatabaphobia Official Description Official description: The fear of closing a browser or shutting down a computer completely for fear of losing the countless hundreds of open tabs Official First…
How to Play a Practical Joke on someone with SSH and Stock Ubuntu
Why? This tutorial is both technical and amusing. There was someone in a room I didn’t want in the room, so I had the idea “I wonder if I can ssh into the computer near them and play some audio out of the speakers and freak them out a bit?” Turns out I can.And it worked.And here’s how to do…
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…
How to Reset Admin Password in Mautic in Docker Environment
Lost my admin password and / or something went wrong. Anyways, I figured I have to learn how to do to be a good admin anyways, so might as well go through the pain for the learning and blog it for the rest of you to benefit from…. Go to your Docker folder where your docker-compose.yml file is (if you…
How to Reset your Stalwart Mail Admin Password
So I was pretty dumb and I installed Stalwart and thought I took a note of the password they give you in the terminal – and didn’t. So then I had the choice of either wiping out my install and starting again, or learning a new skill. The first thing I tried to do, which failed, was this: sudo nano…