Migrating away from Mediawiki and how to export its data
Exporting the latest revision of every MediaWiki page from a PostgreSQL backend, joining through the slots table, and what to do next.
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Linux & Sysadmin
Adding Ambient Sounds to your Discord Server On Linux
Piping ambient audio into Discord on Linux for a tabletop game: virtual null-sink and loopback modules wired up through pavucontrol.
Encrypting additional drives with LUKS on Linux
Encrypting an additional drive on Linux with LUKS: partition it, generate a keyfile, encrypt it and mount it automatically at boot.
Connecting to Ubuntu 18.04+ using RDP
Setting up xRDP on Ubuntu 18.04: install it, open port 3389, and suppress the colord password prompt that greets every single login.
Dell DisplayLink D6000 & Ubuntu 18.04+ Issues
A Dell D6000 dock randomly powering down on Ubuntu 18.04, where the real cause turned out to be PulseAudio triggering USB autosuspend.
Using Gmail aliases with Evolution
Sending mail from a Gmail alias in Evolution, which lacks OAuth2 for SMTP-only accounts, without Google refusing the message outright.
Better Output for MySQL Select Command Using \G
End a MySQL command-line SELECT with backslash-G instead of a semicolon to get readable row-per-column output rather than a mangled table.
Glorious Gluster - How to setup GlusterFS on Rackspace Cloud and Ubuntu 12.10
Building a replicated GlusterFS distributed filesystem on Rackspace Cloud and Ubuntu 12.10: server setup, formatting bricks and mounting it.
Our Redmine install died, We all cried!
A fresh Redmine 2.x install on Ubuntu 12.10 with Ruby, Apache, Passenger and MySQL, written after an upgrade went comprehensively wrong.
Quick and easy setup of and connection to NRPE on Ubuntu
Installing and configuring NRPE on Ubuntu so an existing Nagios or Icinga server can run remote checks, including custom command definitions.