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While trying to set up automated snapshots, I have seen this problem. It’s a general error that often means an incorrect region entered in ‘aws configure’ Instead of us-east-1x you may need to use us-east-1

I ran into this a couple times; after creating the new user, two problems can happen: 1. Error: 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot() The solution to this is to make the FTP users home … Continue reading →

While installing apache on CentOS 7: No package libssl-dev available The solution was to install openssl-devel: yum install openssl-devel https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-November/085812.html

Watching crypto coin prices plummet, I figure it’s a good time to stay on the most profitable pool while mining is still (barely?) profitable. These are my results over the 1 week (March 10-17, 2018). Mining Pool Hub vs Nanopool … Continue reading →

After installing ccminer on Ubuntu, was receiving the subject error. error while loading shared libraries: libcudart.so.9.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Thanks to the folks here I was able to adapt their solution to the … Continue reading →

Trying to install the nvidia Cuda software as per this site and kept hitting this wall Could NOT find CUDA (missing: CUDA_CUDART_LIBRARY) found many possible solutions on the web, but in my case, cmake -DCUDA_CUDART_LIBRARY=/usr/local/cuda/lib64/libcudart.so ../nheqminer solved the issue big … Continue reading →

I installed Ubuntu server from a USB stick onto another USB stick. First I tried using a 4GB thumbdrive that was lying around and quickly ran out of space trying to install software, half the drive was used by swap. … Continue reading →

After changing my password on the remote, I could not get Sourcetree to log in no matter what. I tried editing and deleting my accounts, deleting and re-adding the repo, nothing was working – Authentication failed every time. Finally this … Continue reading →

It may be useful to get an entire website recursively like such: wget –recursive –page-requisites www.domain.com More details can be found here about doing this for offline windows use and with no-clobber and other options I wasn’t concerned with.

Received the error while installing PHP: configure: error: mcrypt.h not found. Please reinstall libmcrypt. Resolved it with this: yum install epel-release yum install libmcrypt-devel