Joplin is the beautiful open source replacement for Evernote. Once upon a time, Evernote was a dream app, but then they sent out an atrocious terms of service change after turning their user interface into drab garbage compared to the old colorful beauty that existed in version 4 and before. Joplin is fully functional and [...]

LibreWolf is a fork of Firefox that removes many of Mozilla’s bad decisions.1 A mirror of LibreWolf 145.0.1-2.x86_64 appimage is available here. Debian stable requires one to use a format other than the LibreWolf repo because as of 23 November, 2025 their site says the following: sudo apt update && sudo apt install extrepo -y [...]

One source for the Java 8 (1.8) runtime is the Oracle Archives page.  Another helpful one is the standard Java download page for the desktop Java Runtime Environment, JRE. I downloaded the Linux x86 (32-bit) version even though the host is a 64bit Linux.  The reason for that is that at some point in the [...]

The ~/.ssh/config file works for OpenSSH on Windows and for SSH on Linux. To prevent disconnects, add the keepalive messages for all hosts. For specific hosts that use a specific key type, such as RSA on CentOS 6, add the specific algorithm via the HostkeyAlgorithms + functionality. To add a private key for SSH key [...]

How to move /var/www/html/mydata/ to a new disk: 1. fdisk /dev/nvme4n1      1.i. create a new DOS partition and write it to disk 2. mkfs -t ext4 /dev/nvme4n1p1 3. lsblk -f (and copy the UUID for use in FSTAB)     3.i. a0e2e1e7-4034-4876-a005-ae5fcca39751 4. mount /dev/nvme4n1p1 /mnt 5. shopt -s dotglob 6. rsync -aulvXpogtr /var/www/html/mydata/* /mnt 7. edit [...]

This is a listing of Debian sources for future reference.  Debian maintains  an archive of older versions on the Distribution Archives website.  It may be necessary at some point in the future to change the bullseye information below so that it points to the distribution archives. /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # [...]

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.