AutoMySQLBackup provides automation for the MySQLDump command line utility. What does it do? MySQLDump reads through the databases in either MySQL or MariaDB and saves a backup for each. The number of backups which are retained can be configured. A periodic backup is made of all MySQL databases. Installation Installation is easy, its in the […]
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Following updates of Mythweb I find that VLC is unable to open and stream music files. Browsing the music options, selecting artist, album and then clicking on the desired track to play. I chose to open in VLC. VLC would open but there was a stream of errors. The top entry shown was: VLC is […]
Reset the KDE Plasma Phonon audio cache. If you computer is failing to connect to your connected loudspeakers or microphone it maybe that resetting your audio cache will correct the problem. KDE Plasma saves the audio settings here ~/.config/pulse where ~ signifies your home directory, for example /home/neil giving /home/neil/.config/pulse In the first instance you […]
A customer had a video for a website. But it was in high definition and with a large pixel footprint. The video needed to be made smaller, of a size appropriate to the web page, making its bandwidth usage optimal. I chose to use ffmpeg to make my conversions. I could also use it to […]
A short summary of the format for using scp secure copy to transfer files between a Linux computer and server and server to local computer. To transfer a file from a remote server: scp username@192.168.0.200:thefile.txt /local-path/directory In the above the file shown is within the home directory of the account. Include a directory path as […]
I wished to remove the RAID signature which had been imprinted on a hard drive. Having taken a hard drive out of a mirror array and trialled in another server, the characteristics of this other raid array were imprinted on the drive. When the drive was added back into the original array there was an […]
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Whilst running Raspberry PI OS based on the stable version there are times when a package taken from the newer, testing, version may be required. As an example I required a newer version of LibreOffice. Using a hybrid of stable and testing Raspberry PI OS can give the best of utilising the stable version with […]
ffmpeg is a video and audio editing tool. It can be used to create copies of a file in a different format, for example mp4 to mkv. There are other editing options available with ffmpeg including shortening a video by adjusting the start timing and the end cut-off. ffmpeg is a handy tool for editing […]
Having deleted a Linux user there was a requirement for the user to be created once again. The gist of the Linux command to add a user called username is: adduser username The command will create a new user together with an associated dedicated primary group for that user. However, when previously using the command […]
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Connecting to another computer with ssh I received this error. qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin “xcb” in “” even though it was found.This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.Available platform plugins are: wayland-org.kde.kwin.qpa, […]
