How to easily disable a wordpress plugin Todays post will show you how to disable a wordpress plugin easily. This is particularly useful if a plugin update does not work or causes issues. I was a bit stuck to decide what to write about, until I logged in my WordPress Admin panel and saw that… Read More »
How to convert a wav to mp3 using ffmpeg Todays post I will show you how to convert a wav to mp3 format. If you use Soundcloud you will often come across free downloads of tracks from up and coming producers who want to spread their music to more people, or from established artists who… Read More »
Linux Date Problem – 1 month ago date bug There exists what I call the 1 month ago date bug in the GNU date command which (i believe) is on almost every unix distribution that System Admins should at least be aware of. The date command is frequently used in bash scripts, and in cron… Read More »
Upgrade Plex Media Server on Linux (Centos, Ubuntu, Fedora) Plex Media Server is a pretty cool product for storing and watching your videos, movies, or listening to music on any device mobile or desktop. If you have read or used my other article for Installing Plex Media Server then at some point in the Plex… Read More »
Bash remove duplicate lines without sorting One of the most frequent requirements I face when bash scripting, is to extract a column of data from an input file, find each unique value from within a number of rows, and then do something with that output. The standard way I achieve that is something like this… Read More »
How to Install and Configure DHCP Server on Centos 6 DHCP Server – DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is the protocol used to assign IP addresses (and gateway and DNS servers) to new clients on a specific local network. Installation of DHCP Server on Centos 6 As a first step you should ensure that your operating system software… Read More »
Download Facebook video CentOS (Linux), Windows, Mac Todays post shows you how you can download Facebook video using Linux (and Windows and Mac). It is really an update to one of my other posts you can see HERE which gives you installation and usage details for how to download videos from Youtube. With billions of… Read More »
Background Bash Script – Push a running bash script to continue in the background Background Bash Script – Running a bash script in the background is a simple task using nohup, but what is less known is how to force an already running script to continue in the background freeing up your terminal for other… Read More »
Download Youtube video – CentOS At some time or another everyone has wanted to download Youtube video to have locally. From Linux (or Windows or Mac) this is a fairly simple task thanks to youtube-dl !! Easy installation, fast, flexible Installation of youtube-dl To install the latest youtube-dl, check the latest url from their site… Read More »
Installing SAMBA on CentOS 6 – Map Network Drive, Shared Storage, Network Storage Samba is a Linux tool which enables a Windows (or other Linux) user, to mount a remote drive from a Linux Server onto their Windows machine, creating you a local samba share mount point. There are various uses for this, maybe you… Read More »