This one cost me a whole bunch of time. Annoyingly I got a Docker version of Postgres 16 working on one machine, but a couple of days later I needed to update another and I hit this error: Somewhat fortunately for me, this time around, was that this was a test setup I have used … Read more
My computer is dual use. Gaming, and work. It runs pretty much 24/7/365, but when I play a game at night in Windows, then reboot back into Linux, I have to manually log in and mount my drive(s) or my overnight backups don’t work. Of course, I frequently forget to log in. And even when … Read more
All week now I’ve been wanting to have a try with JetBrain’s Compose Multiplatform Desktop. The demos I’ve found looked great. As a heads up though, those demos are all showing OSX as the run target. I am aware that Compose for Desktop can run against Windows, and (interesting to me) Linux. What I was … Read more
A very specific issue today, but one that I found quite a nice solution for – albeit with the need to install some extra things. The issue I faced was that I have a large number of directories, each containing 10-15 images. For each directory I needed the file name, and image dimensions for every … Read more
Here’s the requirement: you want to work on your Linux (Ubuntu, in my case) desktop, but your data lives on an OSX / Mac machine. You need to share your folder from Mac, and connect to it from Linux. How do you do that? Well, there is likely more than one way to do this. … Read more
In this post we will cover how to use the Linux command line to create a new file in each sub directory, only if that file doesn’t exist. Of course this can be done by hand, but we are all lazy people, right? So why not make the computer earn its keep? Essentially then, quite … Read more
What I wanted was to connect from Ubuntu (currently Ubuntu 22.x but that doesn’t matter because this worked on earlier versions), over to my Macbook running Ventura 13.2.1 – but again this works for earlier versions. There’s two sides to this. You will need to configure Remmina on your Linux machine. And you will need … Read more
Here’s a very quick little thing I just had to do, that maybe useful to you at some point in the future. The idea is that I had a JSON file (technically some JS to begin with), and I wanted to create a new file in the current directory for each entry in the JSON. … Read more
In learning C# I have resisted using Windows, continuing to use Linux (Ubuntu) for all my software development, which in this case is no doubt holding me back in ways I do not yet even realise. For my C# coding I am using JetBrains Rider IDE. Having already installed the Dot Net Core runtime and … Read more
How can I remove the text [ MyBook ] from [ MyBook ] Chapter 5.docx using the linux command line, for multiple files? This was the question I wanted to answer, as I was too lazy to manually rename each file one by one. Right, so step 1: take a backup. There is nothing worse … Read more
