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Working with git in Windows Subsystem for Linux. | I’ve been using Windows for much of my work now. One of the things I struggled with was about supplying my GitHub credentials to git when used in Windows ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has been released for several months now, with the first point release update 18.04.1 arriving in late July. Users wanting to use the prescribed upgrade mechanism from an older Ubuntu LTS release had to wait till ...
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I’ve been running my WordPress blog for about 9 years. During this time, there have been many changes, both front-facing ones as well as the underlying technical bits. As a techie, I like to build and tweak ...
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My latest LAMP project, is to put together a stack that comprises Apache 2.4.18, with HTTP/2 support and Google PageSpeed, running on top of Ubuntu 16.04. Ubuntu 16.04 isn’t due to be released until next month, so it ...
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Some of us have been using computers for a long time. If you’ve been through the era of, say, Windows 95, you’d think computer crashes are just part and parcel of using a computer. However, crashes are far less ...
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Microsoft Windows XP will reach the end of its support life on 8 April 2014. It’s under two weeks to go. No, Windows XP will not stop working after that day, nor will the world grind to a halt. But many people have voiced ...
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We accumulate lots of digital assets these days. Photos, music and movies, particularly, require massive storage. Storage is cheap, so keeping up with our storage needs is not unaffordable. The difficult bit, however, is scaling ...
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I’ve been mulling for some time about the option of building a standalone pfSense box. My current pfSense runs as a virtual instance inside an Ubuntu host. This interest was renewed again recently when, unfortunately, my ...
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I was recently struggling with my home fibre broadband connection when, as it turned out, it was something I had figured out before, but I had forgotten all about it. So to save myself the hassle in case I need to go through that ...
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It’s new year’s eve today. Many people like to take this time to look back in the year to review the things they’ve done or the events that have taken place. I’m not going to do that. Instead, I’ll ...
