One of the most valuable things I learned in my ‘my-server-has-run-out-of-memory’ crisis was that I can dump my database directly to my local machine without having to first save it to the server and then download it from there. It is surprising that it took me well over 5 years to find it but what a gem for every person…
Category: Tutorial
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…
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…
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…
How to share files on your Ubuntu Touch device with your LAN network
Before you Begin This is for Local area network (LAN) sharing only, so you have to make sure you are connected to the same network. For networking reasons that are beyond my pay level, if one computer is connected to the ethernet cable in the same LAN and the other is on the wifi network, this won’t work. Both have…
HOW TO MOVE FILES FROM ONE UBUNTU MACHINE TO ANOTHER (USING HTTP SERVER)
For some reason this was hard to find clear instructions for. I found a bunch of stack exchange articles but syntax and other things made it harder than it should have been. Once I actually got it working it was nice and simple and a good life skill… Objective Be able to move files from one ubuntu machine to another…
How to Get Rid of Line End Spacing when Pasting from PDF to Libre Office
Backdrop I was pasting text from a PDF to a LibreOffice Writer doc. At the end of each line is an annoyng space. I had to either a) manually erase those spaces or b) find a better way. Hopefully this ‘better way’ will help you since it was oddly a bit hard to figure out. Solution This post ultimately contained…