Just for the fun of it I started posting some random graphics I worked on here: https://www.geohub.com/graphics/ I’m not sure what I plan to do with this page, but it was fun for me to go through some of this stuff. I might do something similar for some old photography… but that will probably take …
Sadly, there’s a ton of malicious activity going on all the time on the Internet. One thing that can be done to reduce some of this traffic is simply to limit your website to users coming from specified countries. My approach is to deny by default and whitelist a small number of countries. I’m looking …
I recently moved some websites and I’m “re-setting up” my backups. I like to keep rolling daily and monthly backups, so I wrote a small bash script that looks like this: Then I have a bunch of database backup lines in my crontab that take the general form: Finally, I have two other cronjobs that …
CLI stuff (from https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux) Running code the first time I got “unable to write program user data” with a complaint about some directories it couldn’t write to. Long story short I created the directory it was complaining about and gave ownership to my normal user:
From the command line: Install EPEL for RHEL8: Or, install EPEL for CentOS8: Install packages Start xrdp and enable it to auto-start on boot Allow xrdp through firewall From Windows I could not remote into the RHEL xrdp server if it was running a desktop (I’m not sure if that is normal). I had to …