What is this? All day long I was getting this “Load MP feeder with Custom Type 6 paper” error message on my Lexmark MS510dn. Does this only happen between ubuntu and Lexmark? No idea, probably not. However I wanted to emphatically point out my OS just in case. I must have wasted a collective half a day on this when…
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HOW TO MIGRATE TO A STALWART EMAIL SERVER FROM SOME OTHER EMAIL PROVIDER
WHAT IS THIS? This post is like most of my other posts – a documented journey and a kind of ‘how to’ manual. Scenario: I have a paid email server for a company I have shut down. I don’t want to pay every month for this premium email but I also don’t want to shut down my email addresses in…
EXAMPLE PODMAN-COMPOSE YAML FILE FOR N8N ON UBUNTU SERVER
What is this? After a grueling battle with both learning Podman and getting better with containers, Caddy, databases, etc, I finally came up with a nice podman-compose.yaml file that works well for me in a MULTI-POD / MULTI-CONTAINER environment. I wanted to share it just so that others could see how I set it up and maybe use it as…
How to Setup an Ubuntu Server as a Podman Container Environment
What is this? This started out as a learning adventure to see whether it’s possible to turn an old laptop into a Nextcloud container using Podman (instead of Docker) on Ubuntu. Spoiler alert: It is! However, this particular post I have decided to remove the Nextcloud part and just focus on the server setup part. More details about Nextcloud in…
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…
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…