This should have been easy, but as all things it ended up hard. First, when I tried a simple import of my Thunderbird .ics calendar into my new Nextcloud install, I got ‘could not parse data’ errors. Wouldn’t end. After much searching it seems like there might be something in the .ics data that doesn’t work with new Nextcloud, or,…
Category: Tutorial
Facepalm Fix for SSH Permission denied Error on Raspberry Pi
I’m labeling this post for Raspberry Pi (RPI) – because it just happened to happen on an RPI. I suppose it could have been any headless server… It probably happened on an RPI because it’s not a ‘normal’ server and you have to mess around with SD cards and can’t easily copy/paste stuff. Anyways, to make a longer story shorter,…
MOVING A DOMAIN FROM ONE DIGITAL OCEAN ACCOUNT TO ANOTHER
You’d think from the title this would be easy.Think again!The main reason this is harder than I expected is because Digital Ocean will not allow you to add the domain to your Act02 until you have first deleted it completely from Act01. Here is the high level view of what we need to do and then a few details to…
A ROOKIE UBUNTU ADMIN’S JOURNEY THROUGH A WORDPRESS MIGRATION
What is this? This is a post for those who have to move a Word Press installation (Specifically) from one ubuntu server to another, including: 1) DNS records2) files3) mysql database4) Let’s Encrypt bonus item All of these cute little moving cogwheels in the system can muck you up royally and so instead of piece-mealing it together I thought I’d…
HOW TO RESTORE A MYSQL DATABASE TO UBUNTU SERVER
Why this post? As always I post something when I find that something simple isn’t so simple. Here is the case again. I had done lots of MSQL dumps (for backups) but realized I never had to actually manually recreate one. So then I started and as always, mysql is a bit scary and sometimes counter intuitive. So that’s why…
CONNECTING RETICULUM APP SIDEBAND TO THE GENERAL INTERNET FOR A TEST CHAT CONNECTION
What is this even for? This is a follow up to my How to get started with reticulum on an Ubuntu machine article, after getting everything going and chatting with myself and my guinea pig mom in my own home network… it was time to see if I could do the same through the world webs… but it was harder…
HOW TO GET STARTED WITH RETICULUM ON UBUNTU MACHINE
What is this all about? I discovered Reticulum and wanted to simply quickly test it with two laptops (to start) to get a quick feel. I decided I would also use the Sideband app as the GUI interface for it because it works on Android and I assumed that would be my second test. I based this tutorial on the…
SETTING UP OLLAMA ON AN UBUNTU MACHINE
This tutorial is an ubuntu (vanilla) version of this excellent ollama blog. Following this blog wasn’t so easy for me because it assumed a bunch of dependencies that I didn’t have on my ubuntu machine. The blog doesn’t really say clearly that you need pip and venv installed on the local machine in order to make this blog work smoothly.…
How to insert and center an image in a markdown doc using Pandoc
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…
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…