yt-dlp – download your data from youtube
Hi, this short article only to mention that there is a wonderful application that exists for a years for the purpose to download YOUR or maybe some other movies from youtube. I don’t want to go in to legal aspect too much, what can be downloaded from youtube, what not …
Migrate WordPress site to another hosting service.
IntroductionThis article details the migration of WordPress site (exactly this site you are now on) from one service provider to Amazon Lightsail. There might be various reason to do that (mine is outlined below) but in general I hope to share the message that especially with WordPress, migration can be …
Convert pdf file to jpeg – with imagemagic
Short article just to write down not-so frequently (for me) task: remove /opt/homebrew/bin from that command where using on other system than macOs Options: cheers
OneDrive on macOS, ugly hack
Introduction I have been using Google Drive for many years without any issues, but since the only constant in life is change, I recently found myself having to use OneDrive. I’m not very familiar with OneDrive, so the functions (and partial solutions) presented below might also be available in Microsoft …
Salt, VMware implementation – part 1, introduction
As every IT administrator knows, the infrastructure (meaning storages, compute, VMware virtualisation stack) is just a fundaments to run various operating systems (OS) and finally (containerized) application. Therefore, installation of (let’s call it) infrastructure in the datacenter (SDDC), in that sense is just the beginning of the adventure. No wonder, …
Search for duplicated files
This will be short (but hopefully I will find more time to show entire process to search duplicated files together with some examples). In case you are searching for duplicated files I can recommend two software which actually rocks in openSource world
“Gaming laptop”, steam link and rustdesk.
Not really related to this article, but just wanted to describe the situation. Most of the time I am working on Linux or Mac. Not a big deal, but last year we bought my daughter a kind of gaming laptop. I am saying kind of, because IMHO there is no …
NFS issue, cannot be mounted or is not visible
The same kind of issue I have encountered numerous times while working across different environments and with various customers. The problem with NFS mounts connected from remote locations is so common. This issue extends beyond communication solely over WAN and also include connections between datacenters (DC) where we lack control …
Combine many pdf files into one.
This article is going to be a quick one, just showcasing a command I don’t use very frequently but always find annoying to locate when needed. gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf *.pdf ‘gs’ is a app that can be found using Homebrew (on macOS) or with most Linux distributions. …
Slow ssh (sudo) login to linux
Few steps to check when login operation (or sudo) is successful but takes long time: