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”) […]
I installed a program called MailStore Home program on my Windows computer. With this program you can connect it to all your email accounts, and it will download everything, index it and compress it. In my case I have around 100 000 emails spread on 3 email accounts. When I have to find an old […]
Sometime yum update just breaks everything. We experienced this, and had to go backup to previous versions. In RHEL6 and RHEL7 you can run this command:
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yum history list all |
which will give you a list of transactions ID’s. Now you just need to figure out how far you want to go back in the history, and do […]
Then you can use html entities, look here: https://www.freeformatter.com/html-entities.html For instance: Plus Minus sign: ± would be: ±
If you need some nice pictures for your presentation or website, you can find those at: https://pixabay.com/en/ and: https://www.pexels.com/
I had a Ubuntu version 16 running in a virtualbox, and wanted copy text from host to the virtual machine. But it didn’t work. It turns out you need to install the Guest Additions CD image. There is an option from the Devices -> Insert guest additions CD image, but I got then this error […]
Sometimes you just want to make smaller changes to your theme, it might be a logo that should be different, or a background color. Some themes doesn’t allow you to do this under Appearance – Customize, only in their PRO version. You could do it by altering the themes files, but if you are runnuing […]
If you have files on your filesystem with ‘?’ question mark in them, for example: index.html?q=somestring This can occur when you have site-ripped a PHP based website with for instance wget or other tools. If you access an url with ‘?’ in it, the webserver will try to serve the string after the question mark […]
If you have several files that need to be converted to utf8, you can do it with vim. First start vim with:
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$ vim $(find . -type f -iname '*.htm*') |
Which will find all .htm and .html files from the current directory. Then in vim, use : to go into command mode. Run these two commands: :set nomore :bufdo set fileencoding=utf8 | […]
You can use the bash command “curl” to read your imap emails like this:
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curl --url "imaps://imapserver.somewhere.net" --user "username:password" |
Note: your password will be visible on the command line, so don’t use this on a public server. So it is actually better to create a file, for instance called secret, then write your password in it, and protect it […]
How to do a good scientific search, and manage to write something that people will believe in? Here is a informational website that you should look into, it is really informative, and it will prepare and help you to write in an academic way so that people can understand. http://sokogskriv.no Good luck!
Matt Abrahams breaks it down. Keeping a speach doesn’t have to be a “near-death” experience. Listen, learn and enjoy . See below some points that I took out from his talk. Control the anxiety, it’s ok to be nervous Use inclusive language. You are not presenting, you are in a conversation. Be present: walk around the […]