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Never ever, EVER use fixboot!
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2008-10-18 18:12:00

I was trying to fix a friends computer recently.  It was a Windows XP machine which would boot ...


Migrating pwman3 Database
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2009-03-13 18:45:00

I recently updated my server and I store a good number of passwords in my pwman database. ...


Useful Database Commands
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2010-05-05 17:19:00

Here are some neat database commands I recently came across while I was trying to get statistics an ...


Speed Up X11 Forwarding
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2011-12-24 21:25:00

For those who work on multiple Linux/Unix machines, we sometimes need to do work remotely. Sometime ...


Linux Mint 12 - Failure to Boot, and Video Problems (AMD/NVIDIA)
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2012-03-31 21:26:00

A few weeks ago, I tossed Mint on an old machine to give it a try. Looking for something to replace ...


awstats Suddenly Stops Processing Logs (Dropped Records) - FMS/Wowza Logs
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2013-06-05 21:34:00

Recently had a problem where awstats stopped processing log entries from one of my sites while the ...


Rsyslog + LogAnalyzer + Logging to MySQL and Files
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2013-06-21 21:32:00

The Goal Have all syslogs from all servers shipped to a central server so that we can query them i ...


CS2D in 2019
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2019-03-27 18:15:00

Installing CS29 in 2019 on Xubuntu, and encountered an error with libsteam_api.so.


Install RDQA in rStudio in Ubuntu
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2019-08-29 08:10:00

Instructions This tutorial will outline the steps I took to install RDQA for use with RStudio in x ...


Creating Subtitles for Videos in Linux
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2019-10-31 08:04:00

One thing we do at our workplace is produce video.  We have a team of producers, techs, and ed ...


Fixing Grub After Windows Update
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2020-02-29 19:59:00

I just recently installed a Windows 10 update, and after my reboot, I was faced with the lovely gru ...


Taking a Screenshot on a Schedule and Uploading
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2020-04-15 17:24:00

My mother sent along a hard drive that was failing.  So, my task was to try and recover it.&nb ...


Moving to a VM for Daily Computing
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2020-05-17 12:30:00

Since I've been home due to COVID-19, I found myself primarily operating in Windows.  Largely ...


Setting up Etherpad Lite on Linux with SQLite Database
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2020-05-22 10:57:00

Ever since Etherpad (Wikipedia Entry) hit the scene, and lived a short life (2008 - 2009) before be ...


Setting up Etherpad Lite on Linux with SQLite Database (Part 2)
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2020-05-30 20:32:00

Welcome to part 2 of my Etherpad setup tutorial using Centos7 and SQLite. In this tutorial, we are ...


Setting up Etherpad Lite on Linux with SQLite Database (Part 3)
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2020-06-05 20:37:00

Welcome to part 3 of my Etherpad setup tutorial using Centos7 and SQLite. In this tutorial, we are ...


Understanding SMART Drive Attributes
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2021-02-13 09:23:00

Every year around this time, I take the time to clean out my office, clean up my computer, and go t ...


Installing snaps offline
By: Thomas Hawkins     Published Date: 2021-09-08 13:11:00

I was trying to install a Linux application that was packaged via snap.  For some reason, my v ...


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