If you have Windows 10 and miss sometimes to have a linux distro locally, you can install the Windows Subsystem for Linux. First start a CMD shell (start-run, type: CMD) Then: powershell Then you type: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux Restart the computer. Then go to Microsoft Store and choose your option. I chose Ubuntu 18.04 […]
Have you been working with tables in Mediawiki? It is a somewhat gnarly process. The mediawiki markup for a small example table is like this: {| |Orange |Apple |- |Bread |Pie |- |Butter |Ice cream |} The result on the Mediawiki article will then be shown like this: Orange Apple Bread Pie Butter Ice cream […]
If you have a lot of files (several TB) on a Linux server, and you want to synchronize them daily to a local USB disc, you can use Cygwin rsync for the job. First you need to install Cygwin on your Windows computer: https://www.cygwin.com/ Then start up a CMD on your windows computer, and type: rsync […]
In Yerevan we had a workshop in Oral Pathology where I presented both Cytomine and Moodle with video tutorials made by Anne C. Johannsessen: You can also read about the visitors from Armenia and the project at the main UiB website: https://www.uib.no/en/ccbio/118480/guest-students-armenia-oral-pathology-project
We have a collaborating project between Norway, Moldova, Armenia and Belarus in Oral Pathology. In order to view slides online we installed a software called Cytomine. This software, or multiple combined software/applications, is developed in Belgium by a cooperating team. All about Cytomine can be read here: https://cytomine.coop/ This is an open source software. It is […]
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In Apache one specify the servername and serveralias in a virtualhost directive in possible a single .conf file. We had an Apache webserver with hundreds of such .conf files. With this bash one-liner you can find all ServerName and ServerAlias’s: cd /etc/httpd/vhosts.d/ ; find . -type f | xargs egrep -i ‘servername|serveralias’ | awk {‘print […]
I had 70 different domain names that I need to add in a ssl cnf file for creating a certificate request. The 70 different domain names was in a text file, one per line: domainname1.something.com domainname2.somehing.com … In order to create the alternative names list, I used this bash oneliner: teller=1; for i in cat […]
Got a tip from my colleague JB! Want to refresh your terminal? Is it spring and time to freshen things up? Look at: http://ohmyz.sh/ Easy to install on Redhat: yum -y install zsh sh -c “$(wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)” Result in my Putty in Windows 7:
On Redhat 5 and 6 we could empty the ldap cache with this command: nscd -i group and nscd -i netgroup But in Redhat 7 this doesn’t work. Instead one have to run this command: sss_cache -E here is more about sss_cache from Redhat: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/6/html/deployment_guide/sssd-cache
By my colleague Lennart: Fast and free HTTPS supported sites with Caddy (web)server with proxy to docker container HowTo
We wanted to run a script every last Friday of the month. The script was set to remind people about certain issues. Friday is a nice day to be reminded of things, right? Anyway, by putting this in the /etc/crontab file, one can achieve the request: 59 11 * * 5 username [ $(date +”\%m”) […]