Monthly Archives: November 2019
Globally changing URLs in WordPress posts
Over the decades my WordPress site has had a few different URLs, and I thought I had managed to keep them all up to date as I changed sites. Using owasp-zap (under Kali) to test my site it did manage … Continue reading
Converting a Fedora30 webserver to CentOS7
There are two supported versions of CentOS in the wild now. Note that I exclude CentOS6 as that is pretty much end of support now. So we have only versions 7 and 8 to play with. Version 7 is EOL … Continue reading
qemu-img shipped with fedora corrupts qcow2 disk images
Up to and including F38 there were no problems with using qemu-img to compress disk images. On both F29 and F30 using qemu-img to compress a qcow2 disk image results in severe virtual disk corruption, visable as virtual machines dying … Continue reading
Free OpenSource Project Managers for small business and home users running Linux servers, I chose WebCollab
This is by no means a comprehensive post, it only covers three, two I looked at and discarded and the one I finally settled on for home use. OpenProject – discarded, I did not evaluate it First there must be … Continue reading
Obtaining CherryTree under f31
I, like many people, when Fedora no longer included the essential Desktop note taking app BasketNotes in its repositories migrated to the CherryTree application which was functionally compatible with BasketNotes and could import the BasketNotes data files, so no data … Continue reading
How to fsck a Linux system at boot time
The old method of creating a file with “touch /forcefsck” should still work on modern systems even though it is a hangover from the old sysvinit days, however it obviously relies on the root partition being mountable in order to … Continue reading
Fedora31 released, buggy as always
In the upgrade from f29 to f30 I lost ownCloud, which is not supported with the version of php shipped with f30. While a pain I could live with that. However in the upgrade from f30 to f31, while it … Continue reading