Category: Tutorials

Create Windows 10 bootable usb from linux (Ubuntu 18.04) 1

Create Windows 10 bootable usb from linux (Ubuntu 18.04)

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Create Windows 10 bootable usb from linux tested on Ubuntu 18.04. Download windows 10 iso from here Install woeusb from source (tested on ubuntu 18.04)

Make it bootable with woeusb

Tip: If woeusb starts to complain for mounted device etc … Unmount and unplug the usb device. Plug the usb and unmount the […]

merge pdf files in linux

How to merge multiple PDF files in Linux

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This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series PDF Editing In Linux

Merge multiple PDF files in Linux is easy running one simple command by using PDF Toolkit. Installation on Ubuntu > 16.04:

Merge multiple pdf files: In this example we have n pdf files in the same directory, each file has the prefix sample-pdf-. The command below will merge n number of pdf files, using […]

HowTo Fix kolab_smtp_access_policy exit status 1 2

HowTo Fix kolab_smtp_access_policy exit status 1

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This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Unfucking Kolab Server

In case it happens to use Kolab with Ubuntu you might face the “kolab_smtp_access_policy exit status 1” error when sending or receiving emails! Kolab is definitely one-of-a-kind open source groupware server software out there. It’s the best! It’s so stable that can handle the day of reckoning! But after un-fucking the initial installation! Anyways … […]

How to install MacOS Sierra guest on VirtualBox on Ubuntu host 3

How to install MacOS Sierra guest on VirtualBox on Ubuntu host

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Well, yeah, I was desperate to debug an app on mac OS so … You can have it run on Ubuntu host with VirtualBox. It works on other versions of Ubuntu and VirtualBox. Haven’t tested mac OS Mojave. If you try it, drop a line on the comments below to share with other desperate developers/sysadmins. […]

merge pdf files in linux

How to replace a single page in a PDF file using another PDF file in Linux

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This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series PDF Editing In Linux

By using the PDF Toolkit PDFtk library you can do this simple pdf editing task and many more. For all of you creating software related to PDF documents you should really spend some time reading about PDFtk server. Installation:

Usage: In this example we have two pdf files with 10 pages each. The command […]

Real WordPress Cron Jobs 4

Real WordPress Cron Jobs

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WP cron is one of the greatest features of WordPress. However, it’s irritating when your site is low traffic, or for whatever reason, wp cron refuses to work properly. You can’t schedule your postings or newsletter digests, social media re-posts, WAF scanning, etc. And if your plan is to get serious about your personal blog […]

Observium - Rename existing devices 7

Observium – Rename existing devices

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In case you have a lot of devices monitored by observium and for a reason (a hypervisor migration maybe?) you need to change servers’ hostnames, observium, at the time being, doesn’t seem to support renaming via its web interface but you can successfully do it from the command-line. Read the instructions below. Change current directory […]

ssh refused: sshd[2444]: userauth_pubkey: key type ssh-dss not in PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes [preauth] 8

ssh refused: sshd[2444]: userauth_pubkey: key type ssh-dss not in PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes [preauth]

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If you just upgraded Ubuntu 15.04/10 to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (or otherwise upgraded OpenSSH from v6.9 to v7.0 you may be getting the ssh refusal because of changes in OpenSSH. I was specifically getting this error in the /var/log/auth.log (via Webmin): sshd[2444]: userauth_pubkey: key type ssh-dss not in PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes [preauth]. For this specific error, you […]

Fix nethogs 'creating socket failed while establishing local IP' 9

Fix nethogs ‘creating socket failed while establishing local IP’

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As it’s not available in repo nor PPA you need to build it (it is really easy and quickly done). Fetch and extract

Install dependencies and build

Check and run

Source

use utf8 you slackers

#Outlook 2007 & 2010 – Change encoding to UTF-8

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Slacker-ism in IT is something we all went through!! But Enough is Enough! Stop doing it right now! If you’re already reading these lines, you already know why you are here… So it’s beyond the scope of this article to explain what character encoding is or why you should change it to UTF-8 immediately! Therefore, […]