Quick guide to nmap on Ubuntu
Category: Life Skills
Authorize.net and their stupid invalid character password issue
Overcoming the ‘invalid character’ message in authorize.net…
How to Roast Coffee in the Behmor Roaster
A quick guide on getting good results with the Behmor coffee roaster…
How to Reformat or Repurpose an Encrypted Hard Drive
Repurpose an encrypted drive so it’s useful again…
How to make HP Laserjet 1000 work on Ubuntu 20.04
my updated notes on getting an hp laserjet1000 working on ubuntu…
How to beat the Docu-sign “Document Contains No Data” annoyance
The Story *Someone sent me a Docu-sign document to sign I signed it I got the email back with the PDF I Saved the PDF to my ubuntu machine I tried to open the PDF I just saved, but got the message “The Document contains no pages” message. Couldn’t open. Note: This only happens with docu-sign and not other great…
THE SEDUCTIVE AND MANIPULATIVE SALES TECHNIQUES OF THE BC INJECTION REMINDERS
Is the BC government informing you or seducing you with your injection reminder? …
How to Create a 3D Object Out of a 2D Die Line in Blender
First, as always, a big thank you to everyone who has made Blender possible. No question Blender is one of the very best free and open source projects in the world. To my surprise (again) this particular need of creating a 3D object from a 2D die line was not very well documented for Blender or out there in the…
How to move Decred from Decredition to Canadian Fiat Bank Account
I was quite happy to learn I had some decred. I recall when I first received it that it was very nice, ahead of its time, and well thought out crypto. The problem was I didn’t know how to trade in crypto, let alone trade in a less-than-top-3 cryptos. Without further adoo, here is what I did and I hope…
How to Print Multiple Pages to One PDF with Ubuntu and Scribus
This was one of these exercises that seemed like it would be dead easy but took me forever to figure out. My goal was simple: to take one document, and print 4 copies of it to a PDF file (not to paper for now) so that there were 4-up on the page instead of wasting the entire page for this…