The Baffled Architect

Tag: Books

  • Gogh

    Check out these awesome terminal themes at http://gogh-co.github.io/Gogh/

  • CLI Corner: rsync

    Synchronise two directories, e.g. Nextcloud and an encrypted USB drive with archive, recursive, partial, and progress flags:

  • Excel – is it a working day?

    Need to know if a date is a working day? Excel has a WORKDAY function which takes a date, adds to it, and tells you the next working day. What about if a specific day is a working day? Assuming the date is in A1:

  • AWS re:Invent

    Embarrassingly spent ages looking for slide decks from re:Invent. Just click on the title under the video thumbnail. I’ve reached the point in my life where my parents couldn’t work the timer on the VHS.

  • Plesk high swap usage

    Seen warnings about high swap consumption in Plesk on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS: Had a look in top and noticed clamavd using 1.0G of swap. After a little digging around, it might be related to a change in ClamAV 0.103.0 where non-blocking signature database reloads were introduced. Major changes I disabled the option and the difference…

  • Plesk, Nextcloud, and my shortening patience

    I’ve a self-hosted Nextcloud installation which is frankly a pain, there’s a good chance updates will break everything. Plesk is a fairly intuitive interface for self hosting but is best described as non-standard Ubuntu – it handles PHP oddly in particular. Try running any of the php occ commands in it’s built-in ssh terminal and…

  • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS OneDrive

    I’ve not had much time to play around with the latest release but this is cool – OneDrive Nautilus integration. Settings > Online Accounts > Microsoft 365, leave everything blank and hit “Sign in…”. Web page opens to authenticate and then you can mount OneDrive in Nautilus. Edit: There’s a wee bug… So it won’t…