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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
I’m working on a testing script to see if my server can run BBB. Useful if you’re building old systems to use as a development box. This is based on the BBB installation instructions. It doesn’t do everything, just…
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Audacity Recording Problems Choosing an Input Source on Linux Mint
Symptoms: Audacity is unable to get any input from the audio output or microphone. System uses PulseAudio and ALSA.
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
I’m running WordPress inside a Docker container, and wanted to control the website with command lines, and code. The two options are to use the REST API, or to use the WP-CLI interface. I opted for the CLI because…
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
How to set up Ubuntu to run Docker, a Shiny Server container, with an existing Apache proxy server configuration. This setup will work for a low-volume application. It runs a single container, on a single host.
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About This Blog
In 2024 I decided to revive link pages to news on the home page. I did this years ago, and it was an abject failure, and unsustainable. I switched to posting links on social media, and that worked for…
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Using Flatpaks, Doctrine ORM is Meta, Talking Union, and Indexing Free Blogs
What are the best free blogging sites? I don’t know, but decided to see which platforms were best indexed on Google. Not surprised to find that Google’s own Blogger.com had the most pages. These are the results from using…
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WordPress AntiSpam Plugin, Configuring Alpine Linux to Send Mail
The previous incarnation of this blog had a lot more inbound links, and accumulates spam. One day, I had 14,000 comments pending, and most were spam. So, I wrote a tool to help work through the backlog.
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Dead Pages, Alpine, Docker, Cloud
I’m having some Google indexing problems, with some traffic going to riceball.com, and some coming to technote.fyi. According to Search Console, I still have 367 riceball.com pages; in reality, I have maybe 40 pages. Some of these pages haven’t…
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Changing Emails is Hard
I’ve had my old address, johnk@riceball.com, for more than 20 years. I think. I don’t remember when I first established email for my own domain. I remember picking the domain out around 1998, when the first domain land rush…
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Update for June 18, 2019
I’m moving the site over to technote.fyi, and will be converting this domain over to a rice ball / food / restaurant domain. Google doesn’t seem to consider the domain that much when indexing a site – this site…