WinRAR offers great feature. It will create a zip file using a name mask.  That allows one to create a file with an excellent name via the right click menu.  Buying many WinRAR licenses becomes cost prohibitive.  This batch file will do the same thing using 7Zip on Windows. The batch file must be saved [...]

Fedora 38 freezes up and crashes sometimes when using Gnome on bare metal.  This may be the result of Gnome reliability issues.  In a previous article I detailed creating a massive repo of Fedora 38, and I still have it.  I will not delete the 238GB repo because Fedora 40 is the last one with [...]

Today’s site updates including removing the RSS feed links. Kinsta provided source code.1  The code for functions.php to remove it is: remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘feed_links_extra’, 3 ); remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘feed_links’, 2 ); remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘wlwmanifest_link’); Kinsta also provided another very useful function2 and that was one that removed the various update notifications in the dashboard. function kinsta_hide_update_nag() [...]

Here is a great TCP/UDP Port finder tool.   This was useful for finding out which port “cbt” was in my Iftop listing.  It was 7777, which was in use for the Unreal Engine on an Ark: Survival Evolved game server. Iftop is the best real time network monitoring tool for Linux that has graced my [...]

dnf install cronie systemctl enable crond.service systemctl start crond.service

When I first obtained a CompTIA A+ certification some time ago, the concept of bit rot related to what happens to software reliability as the number of updates to the system increases. Over time, software that worked in years past ceases to work as new system updates block system calls or change permissions and files [...]

Create file /usr/lib/systemd/system/yacy.service and add this content: [Unit] Description=YaCy search server After=network.target Restart=always [Service] Type=forking User=yacy ExecStart=/opt/yacy/startYACY.sh ExecStop=/opt/yacy/stopYACY.sh Restart=on-failure RestartSec=1s [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Then use systemctl enable yacy.service.

Use about:config –> browser.uidensity . browser.uidensity is set to 0 by default.  Changer the  value to 1 and it takes immediate effect.

To convert a dynamic VirtualBox disk to a Fixed disk, run the following command: vboxmanage clonemedium disk /path/disk.vdi /path/newdisk.vdi -variant Fixed using –variant Standard would create a dynamic disk.  Then open the virtual machine and remove the existing disk and attach the new disk.  Then use the media manager to delete the unused media. Use [...]

Chromium: Joplin Web Clipper, Zotero Connector, floccus bookmarks sync, uBlock Origin, Quick Javascript Switcher, SingleFile, uMatrix Firefox: floccus bookmarks sync, Joplin Web Clipper, Search by Image, uMatrix, Undo Close Tab, Zotero, uBlock Origin   [x]  Removed some Firefox/LibreWolf extensions [+] Added Zotero and uBlock Origin, which have been long used, but neglected with regards to [...]

A few quirks with Debain 12 include that path not being set in similar fashion to Fedora, Ubuntu, and other distributions.  One must regularly set export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin In Gnome, applications will open on the server instead of the client when using X11 forwarding.  This will occur even though xcalc opens on the client normally.  The [...]

To add a new virtual disk and move the existing Linux partition to the new disk use the following process. The process assumes standard partitions without the use of Logical Volume Manager (LVM). 1. Backup the existing VM. One good way to do that is to clone the Virtual Machine and use the procedure on [...]