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Child's Wishlist

Child’s Wishlist Games & Digital Gift Cards Roblox Gift Card – £10 (UK) - £10–£30 - Redeem for Robux or items in Fashion Famous / Royal High — they’ll enjoy picking exactly what she wants.

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Wishlist

My Current Wishlist Here are some things I’d love to have.

Tech solutions

Bulk Clearing Scheduled Downtime in Nagios

The problem with removing Nagios scheduled downtime When you schedule downtime for all services of a host, there’s a Nagios button for that.

Lifehacks

Three Mes - How Past Me Pays it Forward

Paying it forward to yourself One concept I try to carry with me is the concept of three selves.

How toTech solutions

Copying a Sharepoint Page To Another Site

After much trawling of the Internet I found an interesting take on the pain of moving a Sharepoint page from one site to another, using Power Automate.

Tech solutions

Why I’m putting my pronouns in my signature/everywhere and you should too

A post on tiktok where a young lad responded to a commenter “Why do you put your pronouns when you’re cis gender” made way too much sense.

Tech solutions

Using MFA for Sudo Only

Passwords are weak, we know this and so often methods such as key based authentication is used for connections like SSH.

LinuxTech solutionsUbuntu

Finally Solved – Nextcloud SMB Not Working on Ubuntu 20.04

After banging my head against this problem from a different server, as WSL is not there yet for running as personal production services, I finally managed to hit the right keywords to google fu the answer.

AbletonMusic

Fixed: Obelisk not working in Ableton Live

So when using the Frozen Plains Obelisk plugin in Ableton live 10 (I’m running10.

AbletonMusic

Musical Instrument Frequency Range Chart

It looks like the original website is now unavailable and so I’m posting this here to share as the only other place it’s online it bloody Pinterest

How toTech solutions

Checking an Certificate Chain

Use the following one liner to check the a certificate chain in detail:

How toTech solutions

Adding Syntax Highlighting To Nano

Run the following shell command to add all installed syntax files to your .

Tech solutions

BYOBU files being flagged by rkhunter

Add the following to your /etc/rkhunter.conf file #Config to add byobu files to your allow list ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/dev/shm/byobu-*-?

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Finding out why an Ubuntu reboot is required

You could check for the existence of /var/run/reboot-required just to see if a reboot is needed but it’s more useful to check the existence and contents of /var/run/reboot-required.

Tech solutions

Solved: RKHunter Useful information in emails

I was trying to get this working by configuring the MAIL_CMD like so: echo -e “Subject: [rkhunter] Warnings found for ${HOST_NAME}\n\n” $(egrep -x “^[.