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Google Chrome won’t start

Problem: Attempting to start Google Chrome on Linux raises an error: chrome_crashpad_handler: --database is required Try 'chrome_crashpad_handler --help' for more information. [16749:16749:1216/070559.766183:ERROR:filesystem_posix.cc(63)] mkdir : No such file or...

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do-release-upgrade 22.04.4 LTS Fail

lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release There is no development version of an LTS available. To upgrade to the latest...

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pfsense – Learnings

If your: RDP session over an Unifi UDM to pfsense IPSec VPN starts with a black screen and then drops out Terminal sessions hang when you try to load a file in VIM Then go into System => Advanced => Firewall & NAT and under VPN Packet Processing reduce the MSS. I...

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QCAD

Going back through my blog posts it looks like I first started using QCAD over 16 years ago (2009). It started with the Open Source version but then I started paying for QCAD Pro I have sometimes received DWG CAD drawings of Site Plans and used QCAD to tweak them to...

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Dynamics NAV

Trying to send an invoice using Microsoft Outlook from a very old version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and getting an error dialog containing: “A call to Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.lntegration.Office.Outlook.IOutlookMessage.Recipients failed with this message: Specified...

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Tail all your Web Server Access Logs

Say for example you have split your web server access logs per domain or account e.g. /var/log/apache/www.example.com_access.log /var/log/apache/www.toggen.com.au_access.log /var/log/apache/www.exampe.com.au_access.log ... If you want to view each request in the...

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