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…
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HOW TO COMPRESS BIG PDFS IN UBUNTU
When someone sends a PDF that’s too huge, just navigate to the directory, and run this command: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=name_of_compressed_OUTPUT_file.pdf name_of_UNcompressed_INPUT_file.pdf For even smaller files and lower resolution of 150dpi, just change the /prepress part to /ebook SPEED TIP: to quickly get the path in your terminal so you can cd to it quickly, just…
How to fix a damaged PDF file in Ubuntu
How to fix a damaged PDF file in Ubuntu…
My Journey to Nymea (land)
I thought I’d document my journey of setting up and getting to know Nymea. Nymea is an incredible open source home automation system that even has a beautiful app for Ubuntu Touch. If you are looking for a perfectly in-order tutorial blog, this is definitely not that. Since I’m so busy this will be a ‘babble blog’ where you join…
HOW TO VIEW AND CHANGE PRESTASHOP MYSQL TABLES IN UBUNTU SERVER
Learn a bit of MySQL while we manually force Prestashop to point to a new domain…
HOW TO VIEW AND CHANGE PRESTASHOP MYSQL TABLES IN UBUNTU SERVER
When your prestashop keeps pointing to the old domain….
Giving a Remote Dev Firm SSH Access to your Ubuntu Server
How to share quick (but not super secure) SSH access to Ubuntu server…
NMAP Quick Guide Ubuntu
Quick guide to nmap on Ubuntu
How to make HP Laserjet 1000 work on Ubuntu 20.04
my updated notes on getting an hp laserjet1000 working on ubuntu…
How to install WordPress on Ubuntu Server
My notes for installing Wordpress on an ubuntu server…