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If you ever used a Mac and had to install an application, you probably noticed that often there's no installer unlike on Windows. You just drag and drop the application to your /Applications folder. The downside is, there's often also no uninstaller for those applications. Now, you might say "just [...]
Since macOS is a modern OS, and since modern means removing all user controls, you can't manually press any button to force check for updates on a Mac. But there's a neat trick to force a check anyway! Using the terminal. On your keyboard, press command and space to bring [...]
Note that this guide also applies to Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10. You might have to evaluate Windows Server 2019 for your company or organisation or even for personal use, to see if it fits your use-case before committing to it. Of course no one wants to buy expensive [...]
You might have seen floating welcome text when joining a Minecraft server. This can be done in vanilla Minecraft (meaning without mods) with admin commands, and today I will show you how. This guide assumes you're on Minecraft Java Edition 1.15 or 1.16 and have admin rights (either "cheats enabled" [...]
This is a quick guide on how to install the official printer drivers by Epson on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint) and other distros (Fedora/OpenSUSE). If you're like me, you like things to "just work", and fully too. While many modern printers including printers by Epson provide modern printing protocols which require no [...]
fwupd is a program to update your PC (and its devices') firmware, and LVFS is the Linux Vendor Firmware Service which you can think of a repository where vendors upload firmware updates to. fwupd can detect devices on your PC with firmware update capability, and look for updates on LVFS, [...]
As it turns out, you can assign a pseudo tty when using docker run and still put it into the background and I'll show you how and why you might want to do so! You probably know the following docker run parameters: -t : Allocate a pseudo-tty-i : Keep STDIN [...]
While this guide applies to Linux distributions in general, the commands and package names shown here are specifically for Debian/Ubuntu servers and desktops. In most cases, you'll just have to adapt the apt command and package name for your distribution if you're not on a Debian based system. Many guides [...]
If you're on a first generation Raspberry Pi you don't have much RAM, so it makes sense to increase the swapfile size to be able to do more with your Pi. I'll show you how! First, edit the file /etc/dphys-swapfile sudo nano /etc/dphys-swapfile Change the line: CONF_SWAPSIZE=100 To something like: [...]
In the previous post I told you about the different modes a Huawei USB "internet stick" may have and what for. And since we want to make an SMS-Email gateway, we'll want to put our USB stick into modem mode so that it will act as USB serial device that [...]