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ReSpotGUI
The integration of Spotify, the great daddy of audio streamers with third-party apps has been difficult over the years. Years ago, in their beginning they liberated libspotify, coded in for integration with different clients. Integration with major audio players like Foobar, Clementine and MusicBee were working, but in 2015 the company decided to drop the……
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Using PHP with Node.js in Windows
PHP and Node.js are two coding standards made for Web purposes. Node.js is not a language by itself and is a new implementation of Javascript and a different filosophy in programming. PHP adopted some features of Node like the package manager NPM on Composer and the assincronicity make the bulk of some frameworks like Laravel……
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Don’t open random ports at your will
Last time I opened a port using netcat for receiving HTTP posts from a external. It’s possible, using a pipe, to redirect to forward all the received messages to a text file. Reached the time to choose a number for the port, I chose 5555. It never come to my knowledge what was going to……
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Mute Spotify ads under Windows
Created a repository under Github from one that already allowed the automatic muting of Spotify when the music application is playing annoying ads. Sometimes I switch to Windows so I thought that it would be great to have the application, which is a bash shell script, to work under Windows. I had to rewrite from……
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Damn, Google…
In your last update (Chrome 70), you broke the password-protected feature for Chrome Profiles, fortunately I found a extension that replaces that …. LockPWFree ! It has the defect, although, of opening a new Chrome instance if you choose to start the browser with the tabs when you last left… but anyways, is better than……
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Use Books API on Google Apps Scripts !? No! No!
It apperars the Google guys don’t like us to use some APIs directly in their Google Apps Scripts platform. I don’t see the Books API in the list of libraries available from the top menu and also when I try to access it directly using the UrlFetchApp predefined object it salutes me with a “403……
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How to configure an E-mail distribution service using Postfix + Courier IMAP with SQLite as the credentials storage endpoint
While I was doing the migration from Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 16, I came across the high resource demands required by the new version of MySQL. I’m running on a very basic VPS with to few RAM, and so MySQL (was running 5.7) crashed much frequently, so I decided to switch a MySQL fork, mariaDB,…
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Migration notes from Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 16 Server versions
I needed to migrate the following software bellow from Ubuntu 14 to 16: Apache MySQL Postfix Courier Bind Webmin ddclient
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How to move the base docker directory to another location (part II)
Continuing from my last post , the process of putting the docker base directory in a remote mount point was completed with a relative success, because I’m still struggling with the fact that the permissions that NFS attribute to the users on the machine the share is mounted. Every new file or modified one is assigned,……
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How to move the base docker directory to another location
Some weeks ago, I started getting notices that the root dir where my Linux is mounted was getting low space. I dismissed the warnings and thought there should be something out of the way. Still true that my Linux root partition is just 85 gigs, because I repartitioned the disk on a laptop that goot……