This was a trick One of the few online services for which I pay is Spotify. I enjoy the uninterrupted…
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Mount a Mac Share from Linux
Note: All of this presumes you know how to create a Mac share and that you have cifs-utils installed on…
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Various Linix Distros, tested recently – winners and losers
Losers Linux Mint Mate, 19.1 Whew – this is really not ready for prime time, based upon my experience. Off…
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SSL Toolkit(s) for generating certificates on Linux
Okay. This is a zip file containing various versions of some old scripts I found which simplify generating SSL certificates.…
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Installing Wine on Ubuntu, Mint, etc. 18.04
#!/bin/bash sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'…
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Revised instructions for install Office 2010 via PlayonLinux on 18.04
First…. apt-get install winbind -y apt-get install playonlinux -y 1. Open PlayOnLinux 2. In the toolbar at the top, go…
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Installing Office 2010 with PlayonLinux on 18.04
I just wrote an update to this entire page – go here and forget about this page! Major Woes I…
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Acronis ext4 fix
So numerous editions of Acronis purport to support imaging a drive formatted in ext4, but, often when you attempt to…
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Fixing Kodi exit problem on Linux
Kodi can be installed from official repos on Ubuntu-based PopOS 18.04, but, with a couple of minor problems. First, the…
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Using fsck to check and repair Linux filesystems
No matter how well you take care of your computer, sometimes, it will just crash and you often have to…
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