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IT related tech tips since 2006Just discovered the Elegant Themes — Visual Builder
So I have been using the Divi Template from Elegant Themes and really have paid no attention for a long time. But just today I was looking at the Youtube and discovered the Visual Builder. To describe it I would say it gives you Squarespace style inline editing within...
I have moved to Amazon Web Services
So tonight I moved my websites to AWS. I logged into AWS and created all my DNS zones and records in Route 53 and then logged into multiple DNS registrars they were registered with and pointed them to Route 53 DNS servers. I chose the default Amazon Linux AMI and then...
I wanted a visible paragraph mark and after invoking ‘CTRL + SHIFT + u + b6’ my dreams were fulfilled
I have just installed Fedora 26. I have a PDF that contains a ¶ visible paragraph mark but when I copy it into a Libre Office Writer document an 8 appears. So I have to replace the incorrect 8 with a ¶ visible paragraph character To do this in LibreOffice you click...
seLinux practices the silent treatment – If you would only just tell me what’s wrong I would fix it
I have a html form that posts to a Perl CGI script. The script then loops and creates a CSV that is then piped to glabels-3-batch to create a PDF file of labels which lpr then sends to a printer. I found if I select to create 26 labels the script worked but above 26 I...
Fedora 25 Kernel Upgrade Breaks MacBook Pro WiFi
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/71227/how-to-keep-fedora-22-updates-from-breaking-broadcom-bcm4312-wireless/ The fix is to boot to the latest kernel and run
glabels-3-batch on Fedora 25 segfault
The default glabels-3.4.x install on Fedora 25 through 29 segfaults when using the glabels-3-batch command. The following command fails: glabels-3-batch -o output.pdf -i crossdock-data.csv 150x200-crossdock-labels.glabels I found compiling from source with defaults...
seLinux won’t exec my .pl
This error in httpd error_log [Wed Jul 12 21:39:57.069313 2017] [cgi:error] [pid 16811] [client 127.0.0.1:35330] AH01215: (13)Permission denied: exec of '/home/rupert/Sites/client1-www/cgi-bin/refnum.pl' failed:/home/rupert/Sites/client1-www/cgi-bin/refnum.pl [Wed Jul...
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CakePHP – SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Permission denied
Just saw this error and usually this is due to having a misconfiguration in the database connection options. But I am running Fedora 25 with seLinux enabled by default. First to test if it's seLinux causing an issue If...
Installing Fedora 25 on Macbook Pro
My Log of getting Fedora 25 Running on my Macbook Pro After being on a MacOS for about 2 years I've just this week built the courage to blow the install away and install Fedora on the bare metal. What follows are my notes on the things that I have been tweaking as I...