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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…
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Lifehacks Here
This is an “article bucket” for “life hacks”, or DIY repairs, instruction manuals, device codes, and so forth. If you’d like to write some articles, contact the admin. Subscribe to this blog to get announcements about the site. Articles…
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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…