johnk
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Root Shell Called Web Shell by oRb
I came across this in the uploads. Missed it for a long time. Should I start posting some other web shells I’ve collected?
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How to Add a REST API to an Existing Django Project
This is a note I wrote to myself about how to add Django REST Framework to an existing project. It’s in PDF format, for reading. I didn’t have the time to create a real tutorial that builds up the API, or produce a really useful API. The intention is just to outline what parts get…
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
The Nautilus Trash feature stopped working, so I could only delete a file completely, rather than move it to the trash. Here’s what’s happening, and how to restore it.
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Lock File Location for OpenOffice LibreOffice when it says File is Locked for Editing
The file is located in the same folder as the document. It’s named .~lock* so you need to make the hidden files visible to see it. The thread.
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Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)
If you need to read through a lot of email addresses, try Thunderbird. I’ve had over ten addresses in it, and it works pretty well. It also has an RSS reader that I rarely use, but it’s there. It’s my preferred client, and after a lot of use, I finally donated to the project. https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
My hard drive is failing, and I’m about to replace it. That means it’s time to check the backups, to make sure they are functional. This short article describes my home backup system. You might find this useful for setting up your own backups.
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Workstyles and Productivity
Inspired by this HubSpot article: How do I like to send and receive information? Brief emails. Verbal communication backed by brief emails. Verbal information alone doesn’t “stick”, but convey’s urgency or lack of ugency.
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
I’m shocked at how many businesses still have websites that don’t work in mobile. For the average person, reading web pages on a smartphone is the primary way they read content on the web. Though I’m not 100% on board with “mobile first”, it should soon be the norm. To CSS hackers, “mobile first” just…
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Creating Email Messages with Clickable Links that Add Events to Your Calendar
This was an effort to find the best ways to create email messages that contain event information, so that the user can easily create a calendar item. The stock advice is to use .ics files, yet I don’t see many event publishers using .ics files. Instead, I saw people using well-formatted text, which gets automatically…
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w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
I got the message “the computer did not resync because no time data was available” after running “w32tm /resync /force”. I had followed the various howtos out there*, and checked them against each other : as expected, they differed slightly, but none of them worked for me. Well, it turned out that I needed to…
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Inventing Black and White
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The Western Gender Binary
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React Practice
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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After do-release-upgrade Name Resolver Stops Working
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Lock File Location for OpenOffice LibreOffice when it says File is Locked for Editing
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 2
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
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Creating Email Messages with Clickable Links that Add Events to Your Calendar
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Update for June 18, 2019
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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Websocket Chat Server Examples
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Selected Posts from June 2020
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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December 18, 2018 Update
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump