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CakePHP 4 has Deprecated File & Folder

So recently my code editor has been putting a line through File because it is going to removed in CakePHP 5 So here is an example of code that uses the deprecated methods and the suggested SplFileObject Using File public function createTempFile($print_content,...

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Reverse Proxy Cups in Nginx

The process is similar to my previous post on proxying a sub directory back to the root. For example https://example.com/test => proxies back to / in the docker container upstream cups-endpoint { # in my case I'm using cups inside # a docker container and...

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June 20 – Moved to Amazon Sydney

So for a while I have been using a Digital Ocean droplet based in Singapore and it is cheaper than an AWS EC2 Instance However I did some tests and found that ping times to Sydney from Melbourne were ~20ms and to Singapore ~400ms I noticed some lag problems with a web...

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Password Safe .desktop File

Been struggling to come to terms with Gnome Shell removing the Windows System Tray functionality Have installed some extensions to get tray icons showing sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator sudo dnf...

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