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…
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HOW TO GET MAUTIC LANDING PAGE BUILDER WORKING
THE BACKGROUND AND PROBLEM After much face-palming I finally got the html builders working on a fresh install of Mautic. Before that, when I went under “Components” and “Landing Pages”, and when I tried to open the builder function after selecting a template, all I got was a white screen with the tools on the right pane. When I clicked…
Code Snippets Busted Broke Crashed Killed My Website
Now this was a bit of a heart-attack time for me so I thought I’d do a quick blog to clarify a few things so that the victim (like me) can more calmly walk through the situation. First, let’s make sure you are in the same situation as me. Checking Situation I had code snippets installed on my Woo commerce…
How to Fix an App Stuck Between Screens in Ubuntu
I had a weird situation today. I have two monitor displays: a laptop monitor on my desk and a big monitor above that. They are joined logically in that way in the display settings of ubuntu. Suddenly my Telegram app got ‘stuck’ between the two. The top toolbar that you grab with your mouse was unable to be accessed because…
How to fix a damaged PDF file in Ubuntu
How to fix a damaged PDF file in Ubuntu…
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…
HOW TO RE-INDEX YOUR SUITECRM INSTANCE
(EDITED: DEC 25, 2024) This blog was great and ultimately gave me enough info to get this done, however, it wasn’t for a rookie in MYSQL since the whole part about ‘deleting rows’ assumes you know how to delete a row. It looks like I also wrote a cpanel version of the same need a few years back. Also I…
How to Fix Black and Decker Coffee Grinder in 10 minutes
Ever seen this coffee grinder? Hopefully you weren’t unfortunate to buy it, but if you were and dropped the lid JUST ONCE, you will know that Black and Decker designed this to break. They had to actually think long and hard in a design room to figure out a way to make sure this would break in the first…
Weird Bug Fix for Crashing Owncloud Client on Ubuntu 14.04:Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
Not that most of you are going to ever see this or care, but as for me, I just spent about 6 hours over the last few weeks trying to resolve it so I hope as a public service this will help someone both fix their client and save some time! Background: My Ubuntu owncloud client was working just fine…
Sound problem with Qtel (open source Echolink) in Ubuntu 14.04
If you are looking to get set up Echolink on your shiny new Ubuntu 14.04 machine, be sure to read the how to article I wrote before. However, even after having such a formidable victory and feeling waves of joy when the repeater list finally populated Qtel on my Trusty Tahr, I had a less-than-raring experience of not being able…