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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Get names of all input fields in a FileMaker Pro table

ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT FieldName FROM FileMaker_Fields WHERE TableName='[TABLE NAME]' AND FieldClass='Normal'",",","¶")
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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…
Workshop » Reference Section » Grimoires » IT » Platforms » Linux » Packages » cron

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…
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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 =…
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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"…
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How to check Fail2ban log

Command to check fail2ban's log is sudo tail -f /var/log/fail2ban.log
Linux

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",…
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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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The Encyclopedia Of AI Apologies (now with bonus AI Swearing and Generative Suicide Threats!)

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,…
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Word Salad: Vocabulary List

An unsorted list of words or phrases that I like. Aposiopesis (pron.: /ˌæpəsaɪ.əˈpiːsɪs/; Classical Greek: ἀποσιώπησις, "becoming silent") - a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off…
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2025dec26Changed webfonts back to font-display:swap, turns out optional means if they don't load immediately they never show.change web fonts from font-display: swap to font-display: optional; supposedly better for avoiding layout…
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Mike Kupietz, Arctic Explorer — Bio

Michael Kupietz (1848-1922) was a pioneering British Arctic explorer best known for his controversial claim of discovering a tropical paradise at the North Pole and his unorthodox expedition methods, which…
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Bio of Pioneer of Extraterrestrial Research: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Michael Kupietz

Michael Kupietz's obsession with the unknown began on a moonless night in 1952, when as a ten-year-old boy in rural Montana, he witnessed what he would later describe as "a…
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Breaking Barriers in the Sky: The Extraordinary Life of Mike Kupietz

Michael "Lightning" Kupietz's remarkable journey from a small-town dreamer to one of aviation's most influential figures began on a dusty farm in Kansas in 1934. As the son of a…