‘winmail.dat’ if you get it, is a result of the sender having bad settings on their Windows operating system in their Outlook Express email client. They could fix it and make it go away so you could ask them to do that (and you should) but if you don’t want to waste the time or brain power, there is a…
Category: Tutorial
Dealing with the ‘name’ field in Quickbooks online during customer import
The Background This hopefully will save someone much pain. I had to import data into quickbooks from a simple spreadsheet. The problem was it wouldn’t map to the ‘name’ field since that field was blank. The Quickbooks data shows a first and last name in the field, so I realized it wasn’t importing anything because my name field was blank.…
Inkscape: How to Change the Background Colour of Something
How to change the background colour of something in Inkscape (guide for the un-skilled)…
NMAP Quick Guide Ubuntu
Quick guide to nmap on Ubuntu
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 install WordPress on Ubuntu Server
My notes for installing Wordpress on an ubuntu server…
How to Set up your Ubuntu Server with a new or updated SSH key
Overcoming the ssh ‘permission denied’ message (and fears)…
How to install Mautic on an Ubuntu Server at Digital Ocean
The server installation guide in the docs for Mautic is ‘pretty good’ but still expects that you’re already a system admin kind of person and now how to do stuff. I’ll walk you through the install in the usual way I do in hopes that it helps some of the steps. This link shows the server requirements users install apache2:…
Problems renewing Letsencrypt certificate on Nextcloud Snap
Super quick post here to explain my problem and solution for why my Nextcloud Snap Letsencrypt certificate wouldn’t renew on my ubuntu server and how I fixed it. I got a warning that my SSL certificate was expired when I was using my nextcloud client. I read a few blogs on how to renew it and the solution was always…