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Run a command from your bash history
For years I have been typing history and then copying and pasting the result to the command prompt to rerun a command. But you can simply type history, make a note of the number and then type !xxxx where xxx is the number of the command. e.g.: history !1210
Who’s down with RPC? Apparently not me
Just got this error from an Outlook 2010 client: Cannot open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize your folders with your Outlook data file (.ost). P1: 300032 P2: 14.0.7015.1000 P3: heqz...
Creating Passwords that don’t Require a Keyboard Epiphany using pwgen
Just rediscovered pwgen which I had forgotten all about. I'm still a fan of Secure Memorable Passwords for personal use though. But pwgen is great if you are wanting to automate installations and require random mysql table prefixes: # mysql table prefixes pwgen -A 3 2...
Google+ Posts missing images
If you have moved from one content management system to another. For example you move from Drupal to Joomla and you have a social media plug-in that posts your articles to your Google+ or Facebook page you might find when you move CMS's that your social media feed is...
Docker attach you hang
Docker attach is supposed to give you a bash shell But I have found on some containers that it just hangs when you run it: docker attach 54b38600e152 But this command works for me (and apparently allows multiple shells to attach) docker exec -i -t 54b38600e152 bash...
Glabels-3 almost had me beta
Just had an issue in glabels when I pointed it at a CSV file one of the fields was missing. The cause was glabels intelligently determining the CSV encoding to be non-unicode (ISO-8859) and then dutifully skipping the display of a field with the ? beta character in...