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I use Nginx as a proxy for my dotnet core application and with that I wanted to get some reporting so I installed GoAccess, which generates a nice HTML report. Set this up in your root crontab via a "crontab -e" as root:…

First security steps when setting up any new internet facing linux server: Create a new user account # adduser username # passwd username # usermod -aG wheel username Send SSH key scp id_rsa.pub username@hostname:/home/username…

Here is a list of Three Letter Acronyms I think every developer (and those professionals involved with software development) should know, at least be familiar with:

For some reason I have had a time finding succinct information on creating a simple full (and by full I mean a file you can use to bare metal recover a database) backup with MariaDB. 1. Make a ~/.my.conf file: 2. Run this…

I ran across some old FLAC files I ripped and for some unknown reason I decided at the time that a the FLAC LOG/CUE format was the way to go. I dunno perhaps I was intoxicated at the time. At any rate is what I used to split…

I wanted something a bit more custom looking than the stock Wordpress Icon so I decided to take my avatar and make a favIcon from that. I went to Favicon-Generator it does a nice job of resizing and making the "ico" file…

Managed to get ASP.NET 5 preview up and working via Visual Studio 2015 RC in a Docker container hosted on my local Ubuntu server (read; not an Azure hosted server). All in Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machines. [caption id=…

I figured out the magic sauce for getting ASP.NET 5 running on Ubuntu 14.04 in a VirtualBox VM. I followed this mostly for the setup but your Dockerfile should look like this: Be sure and set your VirtualBox setting to …