Category: How-to

Disposable E-mail Addresses

May 9, 2023

“Ain’t nobody got time for that.” — Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins, also a person that does not have time for that We’ve all seen this lately: you watch a YouTube video, and the video says they are making something available for you to download “for free” or make a copy of. Maybe it’s a Google…

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Using the Synology DS920+ as a Media Server and Ad-blocker

August 27, 2022

“There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” — Unknown Introduction After getting a Synology DS920+ as a NAS, it was obvious that it would be the perfect media server at home. After running Jellyfin for over a year on a VPS, my wife and I were both comfortable with it and didn’t want…

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Script to restart all docker-compose configs (or just one of them)

October 19, 2021

If you update the image for a docker-compose config, you can restart each of the containers by running Assuming you have a directory structure like the following: You can write a simple script to traverse each of the directories and restart the container Save the script as something like restart.sh in the root directory of…

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Use OpenStreetMap on the Garmin GPSMAP series

July 6, 2021

“It really do be like that sometimes.” — Unknown I used to use OpenStreetMap.nl for maps on my Garmin GPSmap 64s (I suspect this works on the other GPSmap devices as well), but the download-queue for getting maps from the site has become impractical: This request is #20312 in the queue. The delay is approximately…

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Migrate MySQL from native installation to docker(ubuntu)

June 12, 2021

“It worked yesterday” — Unknown Please let me know in the comments if this process can be improved, or if I forgot a step. Remember to make proper backups/snapshots of your Server before proceeding with the steps below Export your Databases From the command-line, you can use mysqldump to export all your databases Docker-compose file…

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Sending Push-notifications from iOS

December 4, 2020

Update 2 September 2024: There has since been a much simpler implementation of this using cURL, as detailed on the Pushover Support site I have 4 different devices I move information across (mostly text or URL’s): I enjoyed using Pushbullet for many years, but was pretty disappointed to see that the iOS app isn’t developed…

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Disappearing Presets in Adobe Camera Raw (December 2018 release)

December 12, 2018

With the latest release of Camera Raw in December 2018, I noticed that I could not apply my presets in Camera Raw to JPG’s anymore (both RNI and VSCO). However, they seemed to still be available for RAW files. Looking for change-logs, I came across this, from lightroomkillertips.com “The other preset related addition has to do…

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Automate the creation of nginx sites on Ubuntu

August 26, 2018

This has been adapted from a script by a DigitalOcean mod by the name of Jellingwood. Script has been modified to take PHP into account. This assumes your www directory is /var/www and that you are running PHP 7.0 Save the file as create-site.sh, and make the file executable Run the file by executing something…

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