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…
Tag: tutorial
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…
Zone Minder – My Re-Visiting Journey
Way back in about 2009 or 2010 I remember my buddy installed something called zone minder on an old computer I had and with a few web cams, somehow or another I was able to monitor my coffee shop from home. It was pretty amazing and cool and free and open source. Fast forward to twenty-twenty-something, I was messing around…
Nymea Journey 3 – Making Some Stuff Work Without Smart Hardware
Not sure if you’re like me, but I like to try out some quick tests of a new system before I start buying hardware. My plan for the Nymea journey is first figure out how how to install it (covered here), then figure out how to be able to use it a bit before committing to server (covered here), then…
Nymea Journey Part 2 – Setting up a Persistent USB Drive for Nymea Testing and Explaining
Backdrop Right away when diving into Nymea and trying to understand it and also explaining it to others, I found the need for a simple, dedicated Linux distro in my pocket ready to boot up a Nymea server wherever I am. But this thing would need to be able to save a few things – mainly my nymea setup –…
How to get Cursor to Auto-Focus into Input Field in Ajax lite using Oxygen Builder
How to make the cursor go to the search field without clicking using ajax lite with oxygen..
How to open a winmail.dat attachment email
‘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…
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