PYTHON DLL HELL On my local system (Ubuntu of some flavor), I had Python 2.7. Sage (A nickname ChatGPT chose for itself when I asked) said to leave it alone or else bad things would happen. OK. My system also had Python 3.8, which Sage also said to leave alone. This time, I didn’t listen. […]
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TL;DR Although it was my fault, GitLab has been completely unhelpful getting me back into my account, so I decided to try Bitbucket. However, there were a couple gotchas which I cover in more detail, but the short version is: My Achy Breaky GitLab Heart I recently had to change my phone number. I mean,
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OK, there are a bunch of different ways, but it depends how Tomcat was installed. My install didn’t have a version.sh (the easy button) so this one, derived from Joe Tech, seems like the most reliable (every tomcat has a catalina.jar!). First get your path to your catalina.jar: Then, use that path to run this
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TLDR; The Fix This post comes in two parts – the fix, and the drama. Figure, if you are here for the fix, let’s disclose that up front (unlike how the rest of the internet works). So here it is: The Drama Alright, like most people, I pour my life into a cadre of applications
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Keeping up with the Jones’ AI Look, I love all the new gadgetry. AI blows my mind. When ChatGPT was released, I had a new buddy that I could talk to about almost ANYTHING. When Bard came to town, well, it was a bit flaky, but these days, Bard is impressive. Lia27 . . .
AI is Coming for Capitalism, and Maybe I am OK with That Read More »
The magic moment is here. We have Apache, we have snapd, it is time for Remove any old Certbot, and install new Certbot ERROR: I tried running the install right away, and go this error FIX: Waiting a couple minutes and trying again resolved this issue, and I got Certbot 2.6.0. More symbolic linking to
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Next up, on the quest from Alma Linux VPS to using SSL-encrypted Cockpit sessions, is snapd. Yeah, so it was Apache, now snapd and then certbot. Visit the snapd install instructions, Alma is the first OS in the list. Next, gotta use the EPEL repo Those should go pretty quick – less than 17mb of
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Alright, so now that I have an Alma Linux VPS. Next, for no good reason, I want to be able to use this VPS remotely. It has Cockpit, so I enabled that, but then I tried to use HTTPS:// to connect, and it threws a TLS error. Enter Certbot, which should enable me to get
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After the URL Shortener for this blog, I needed a box to tinker with. Now, there are a gazillion hosting providers out there. And some are awesome, and some suck, but after trying dozens of them, including A2, Bluehost, HostGator, NameCheap and scads more over the years (I have even used AWS, but dang that
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I wanted to mess around with an Alma Linux distro, but to get there, I need to pick up some tech along the way. I also want to blog about it, and as I drop links to the text, I want to construct my own outbound links. I looked into several top URL shortener plug-ins
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