A little bit of wisdom
I upgraded my Swift 2x to Android 8.2, however this resulted in very poor battery life. Frustrated with this, I looked around to see if I could restore the original factory ROM and revert to Android 7.x So here are the steps I took to achieve this. NOTE: Please read this guide thoroughly from start […]
Update: 06/05/2020 – I seem to have missed a couple of steps when I created the initial post! (I forgot about the systemd unit file – now corrected) rc.local has been deprecated in Debian 9. However, you can still enable it with the following steps. Create a new file /etc/rc.local Add the following lines: #!/bin/sh […]
I spent a lot of time trying to get OpenDKIM to work on Debian Stretch. Having searched the Internet thoroughly, once again I found many different configurations, none of which actually worked for me. These are my various config files, with the domain name(s) swapped for “example.com” and the ‘selectors’ swapped for “example-selector-name” If you […]
If you are getting the Code 52 or Error #52 message when plugging your Nike+ Sportwatch into USB.. Try plugging it into a USB 2.0 port and not USB 3.0 (the blue port). It doesn’t seem to work properly in some USB 3.0 ports. Nike rather unhelpfully suggest: If Code 52 persists, reset the SportWatch […]
Debian 8.9 (Jessie) The problem I had was a bind9 server that wouldn’t run in a chroot environment, despite being configured to do so in /etc/default/bind9 Running the daemon directly from the command line using named -u bind -4 -t /var/named/chroot worked just fine and the server ran as expected. After a little research I […]
I wanted to enable ulogd for my firewall logging, but after finding several sites with examples, none of them worked for me. So after gathering snippets of info from various sites, I managed to put a working configuration together, which is what you see here. This is on Debian 8.9 (Jessie) Install ulogd (ulogd is […]
My server was running 2x 1TB disks in a mirror, and I needed more space, so I purchased 2x 2TB disks. The following steps demonstrate how I expanded the RAID volume to 2TB without data loss. My RAID array /dev/md1 consisted of two RAID members, /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. First step was to remove one of […]
UPDATED March 2023 (see below) Getting MPD to work with the ALSA Equaliser plugin I found a few sites with ‘howtos’ for this, although none of them worked for me. First thing to do is ensure your MPD installation is working properly, and playing music through your chosen device. If you have any problems getting […]
See this article for NAT configuration. Hairpin NAT configuration: The above (see the NAT howto) all works very well if your 192.168.1.x hosts sit in a DMZ on the firewall, however! If you want to direct traffic to a host on the LAN segment, you need some additional NAT rule trickery. You need to create […]
Using paste: paste -sd” ” inputfile If you want to comma delimit the file, just add a comma in between the quotes: paste -sd”,” inputfile
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