How To Fix “No Public Key Available” Errors for apt-get update on Debian

Author: erics, June 29th, 2016

root@myHost # apt-get update Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy Release.gpg Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-updates Release.gpg Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-backports Release.gpg Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy Release Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-updates Release Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-backports Release Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy/main Sources Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy/main amd64 Packages Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy/main Translation-en Hit http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-updates/main Sources Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg Get:1 http://cloudfront.debian.net wheezy-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [2,488 […]

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apt-get, Debian, Error, howto, key, Linux, public, Public Key, tips | No comments

How To Fix a “Corrupted index cache file” Error in Dovecot

Author: erics, June 17th, 2016

Jun 17 00:02:45 inbound dovecot: IMAP(yourName): Corrupted index cache file /home/yourName/Maildir/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size

As always, YMMV. Proceed with caution.

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: AWS, Cache, Cache file, Corrupted, Corrupted index, Dovecot, Email, File, howto, IMAP, Index, Linux, mail, Mailhost, PostFix, tips | No comments

How To Create a Bootable MacOSX USB Flash Drive

Author: erics, June 11th, 2016

As the root user, execute: “/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia” –volume /Volumes/{USB_DRIVE_NAME_HERE}/ –applicationpath “/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app” Be sure to include the required double-quotes, or use backslashes to escape the spaces in the path. Full instructions may be found on the Apple site: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 Turn on your Mac by pressing the power button Press […]

Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10, 10.11, apple, boot, Bootable, Drive, El Capitan, Flash, howto, Mac, macosx, Reinstall, tips, USB, Yosemite | No comments

How To Use wget with Basic Auth

Author: erics, June 9th, 2016

If you need to use wget to obtain the contents of a web page, but that page has either Basic or Digest Authentication enabled, use the following syntax to gain access: wget –http-user=yourUserNameHere –http-password=yourSecretPasswordHere http://example.org/desired/path/ ~or~ wget http://yourUserNameHere:yourSecretPasswordHere@yourSite.com/desired/path/

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How To Create a PDF from Multiple Image Files on the Command Line

Author: erics, June 6th, 2016

convert myFile*.jpg myFile.pdf convert myFile*.png myFile.pdf

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R.I.P. Captain Robert V. “Bob” Gerenser

Author: erics, June 5th, 2016

Captain Bob was a friend for over 20 years. We will miss him terribly. A good man with a great heart! http://newhopefreepress.com/2016/05/30/new-hope-bids-farewell-to-native-son-captain-bob-gerenser/

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