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Copying a Sharepoint Page To Another Site

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Adding Syntax Highlighting To Nano

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Display content of files with filenames

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Why I’m putting my pronouns in my signature/everywhere and you should too

A post on tiktok where a young lad responded to a commenter “Why do you put your pronouns when you’re cis gender” made way too much sense.

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Using MFA for Sudo Only

Passwords are weak, we know this and so often methods such as key based authentication is used for connections like SSH.

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Finally Solved – Nextcloud SMB Not Working on Ubuntu 20.04

After banging my head against this problem from a different server, as WSL is not there yet for running as personal production services, I finally managed to hit the right keywords to google fu the answer.

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Fixed: Obelisk not working in Ableton Live

So when using the Frozen Plains Obelisk plugin in Ableton live 10 (I’m running10.

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Musical Instrument Frequency Range Chart

It looks like the original website is now unavailable and so I’m posting this here to share as the only other place it’s online it bloody Pinterest

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BYOBU files being flagged by rkhunter

Add the following to your /etc/rkhunter.conf file #Config to add byobu files to your allow list ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/dev/shm/byobu-*-?

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Finding out why an Ubuntu reboot is required

You could check for the existence of /var/run/reboot-required just to see if a reboot is needed but it’s more useful to check the existence and contents of /var/run/reboot-required.

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Solved: RKHunter Useful information in emails

I was trying to get this working by configuring the MAIL_CMD like so: echo -e “Subject: [rkhunter] Warnings found for ${HOST_NAME}\n\n” $(egrep -x “^[.