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If You’re Making a Presentation, gamma.app May Be the Way to Go
Yesterday, information saying, “If you’re making a presentation, use gamma.app,” reached me from 2 independent directions. So I started by trying the free version. To give you the…
Migrating WordPress Brought Up the Dreaded Installation Screen
Yes, I ran into this this morning as well. With MyISAM, you only need to move the database files, but because InnoDB was involved this time, simply doing that caused the tables to…
Why Doesn’t Apache Apply DefaultCharSet Even When It Is Specified?!
I got a little stuck on this… Have you ever migrated an old EUC-JP or Shift JIS site to a new server and ended up with garbled characters? I have. In fact, that happened to m…
How to Download Photos from Flickr in Bulk
Flickr was acquired by Verizon in 2017. It was subsequently resold to SmugMug, and the service is about to change. Free accounts will be able to access only 1000 photos. The messag…
Setting Up a NextCloud Server on DigitalOcean
When I met my friend Johannes, who has even been honored at the Davos conference, at the end of last year, he said, “You’re still using OwnCloud? It’s about time you sw…
Installing an SSL Certificate with Let’s Encrypt, Now Certbot
This article is outdated. Most Linux distributions should now support Certbot packages, so please use those.If custom configuration is needed, it will probably concern how to reloa…
Setting Up Name-Based HTTPS Virtual Hosts (SNI) with Let’s Encrypt
Let’s Encrypt is a free TLS server-certificate service provided by the US foundation Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Its motto is free, automated, secure, transparen…
Using clamdscan with courier-mta
clamdscan uses the daemon of the virus scanner clamav to check emails and the like for viruses. If you use Courier-mta, you are probably using mailfilter for local delivery in many…
Installing Lubuntu 14.10 on an EeeBox
In a corner of our server room—also known as the storage closet—sat, for nearly 4 years without being powered on, an EeeBox[1]. I had erased its recovery partition, installed Debia…
This Is Useful: Make Tables on Web Pages Sortable with the ActiveTable Bookmarklet
Have you ever encountered a large table on a web page and thought, “Ah, I wish I could sort this”? You can! With the ActiveTable bookmarklet, you can do just that. And it is extrem…
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