VMWare VM unreachable via IP after reboot, even from host machine
My VWWare VM lost internet connectivity after a reboot. Even the host machine could not access any service on it. Http/https got 523 errors. I powered down the VM, changed…
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VMWare VM unreachable via IP after reboot, even from host machine
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What It Is: Start Here—What is the General Reference Library section?
I have always been a dedicated archiver and curator of interesting information: trivia, facts, tidbits, how-tos, items of possible future interest. In the internet age, some of this it makes…
Reducing rsnapshot or rsync resource usage
I've had sporadic problems with clearing the WP cache causing the server to return 520 errors for a few minutes. Usually other sites on the same server are fine, it's…
Force Git to overwrite local changes if there is a branch conflict
Use code you find here at your own risk! I am not responsible if you damage your data or system by following any instructions you find here. Navigate to your…
Getting Web Browsers Not To Blur Images on Retina Screens
Unfortunately this must be set by site, but on retina screens on MacOS, many browsers blur small images, such as 88x31 buttons. You can overcome this, at least for the…
How to fix if the “Save” button is grayed out in Photoshop CC 2017 save and export dialogs
I don't know if this affects other versions of Photoshop, but on MacOS Photoshop CC 2017 frequently starts unexpectedly graying out all save buttons when you have made changes to…
/AI
This is a slashpage mirror of this site's AI Policy for convenience. That page's content follows:
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AI Policy
Uses The following are how generative AI is used on this site: 1. Visual Images There are plenty of AI images on this site, enough that you should assume all…
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Links — Mike’s Other Sites & Pages
More Kupietz for you? Links to Mike's Other Sites & Pages Music & Sounds: GuitaristInProgress on YouTube - my old YouTube channel, mostly me playing sloppy covers on guitar. Once…
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Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns, I'm absolutely here to help. To get in touch, come to San Francisco and walk down each street shouting my name. Here's a…
Filtering LinkedIn Posts, Notifications, and Comments by keyword
I use the uBlock Origin browser plugin to filter my LinkedIn Posts, Notifications, and Comments to hide anything containing objectionable topics. uBlock Origin allows you to add custom rules to…
Deactivating, deleting, and completely removing a plugin that WordPress won’t let you deactivate
I installed the WordPress plugin LWS Optimize, which turned out to be unusably broken (which is the reason I'm not linking to it) and made my site unusable. To make…
Website returns 503 server errors, but no errors in logs
Had a weird one today. Last one website of the several of on this server suddenly started returning 503 (service unavailable) errors. There was nothing in the PHP error log…
Get names of all input fields in a FileMaker Pro table
ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT FieldName FROM FileMaker_Fields WHERE TableName='[TABLE NAME]' AND FieldClass='Normal'",",","¶")
How to monitor RAM for tuning pm.max_children
How to monitor RAM usage: free -h: This command shows your system's total, used, and free memory in a human-readable format. Key metrics: total: Total RAM. used: RAM currently in…
Add sar logging for CPU, RAM, and disk I/O
Add or change /etc/cron.d/sysstat to this. This creates a cron jobe to write file /tmp/outage_resource_log.txt that keeps minute-by-minute stats, sometimes useful in troubleshooting slowdowns. However, it's not a great way…
Add /fpm-status page to Apache virtual host
Add this to virtual host file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/, right below DocumentRoot, in both :80 and :443 sections SetHandler "proxy:unix:/var/php-fpm/170027027353667.sock|fcgi://127.0.0.1" Require all granted May need in /etc/php/8.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf, not sure: pm.status_path =…
View last 200 lines of all access logs on apache server
find [path/to/access/logs/folder] -name "*_access_log" -exec sh -c 'tail -200 "$1" | grep -v "HetrixTools\|ok\.txt\|canary" | sed "s/$/ [$(basename "$1" _access_log)]/"' _ {} \; | sort -k4,4 The grep -v "HetrixTools\|ok\.txt\|canary"…
How to check Fail2ban log
Command to check fail2ban's log is sudo tail -f /var/log/fail2ban.log
Linux PHP tuning utilities & commands
1. See memory consumed by php-fpm8.2 (change this to match different PHP version if necessary) ps --no-headers -o "rss,cmd" -C php-fpm8.2 | awk '{ sum+=$1 } END { printf ("%d%s\n",…
Linux SQL Tuning Utilities
1. tuning-primer.sh Run from Github: curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BMDan/tuning-primer.sh/main/tuning-primer.sh | bash 2. MySQLTuner.pl wget http://mysqltuner.pl/ -O mysqltuner.pl wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/master/basic_passwords.txt -O basic_passwords.txt wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/master/vulnerabilities.csv -O vulnerabilities.csv perl mysqltuner.pl --host 127.0.0.1 --user [user]…
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Pardon My Placeholder...: Social Features will go here… someday
This site started as an archive for my various art projects, previous scattered hither and yon across the web. As I've been working on it, I've come to want to…
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Button Up!: 88×31 Website Buttons
In the spirit of keeping up with the Joneses I've finally created an 88x31 button for those wishing to link to this site. In characteristically have two nearly-identical versions which…
/Tests
This is my technology test page. I have a local instance of changedetection.io pointed at this page to alert me if any of these website features change unexpectedly, meaning that…
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/Uptime
Hey there, good lookin'! These are handy uptime stats for all my websites and servers. As of this writing I'm using Hetrix Tools for these, and so far, liking it…
/Latest
For convenience, this is a slashpages mirror of my Latest News page.
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Read All About It: Latest News
2025 jul 26 I've updated the Privacy Policy. I used to have a jokey one in there for some reason. Now it's a real one. Also the Draggable Elements WordPress…
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These are things things should ideally eventually happen.
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The Emperor's New Code: The Encyclopedia Of AI Apologies (now with bonus AI Swearing and Generative Suicide Threats!)
I've spent so much time fruitlessly trying to get LLMs (Large Language Model chatbots, commonly referred to generically as "AI") to actually help me solve coding problems that I've taken,…
