I got errors (Subroutine File::Spec::Unix::canonpath redefined at /usr/share/perl5/XSLoader.pm line 111) after adding the razor crowd-hashing spam detection tool into my SpamAssassin system. Nobody else online seemed to have the same problem. Here's how I solved it, in case it helps anybody else.
This is a note to self, where I'll find it, to switch from using 7-Zip to using NanaZip for Windows. WinZip became redundant when Windows integrated archive files into Explorer, but 7-Zip has good right click integration. For Windows 11, that doesn't work as well, so use a fork called NanaZip.
Today, I had a very annoying problem that I managed to fix. It's a couple of hours of my life that I won't get back, and I found very little online to help me.
So, to help anyone else with the same problem, here's the problem and the solution.
For what it's worth, this is with Fedora 39, KDE Plasma spin. But I honestly suspect that makes little difference. Other distros (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) are probably just the same.
Update – December 2025: Sadly, MinIO is no more, by a series of steps. First, they changed it so that the free version did not contain many of the tools a user might need (like the admin GUI). Then they changed it so you had to compile the free version yourself from source. They even made it so that if you want to use the docker version, you had to compile that yourself too (which defeats the whole concept of docker). Then they made it so you have to compile and self-host their documentation if you want to refer to that.
I'm currently running a computer that uses Fedora Linux, with the spin that comes with KDE Plasma as the desktop (I happen to prefer that to Gnome).
I wanted a script that will download a desktop wallpaper from the internet, and then set that to be my current wallpaper.
If you run an application that includes a database, you want to be taking backups regularly. Your backup needs to include tables, views and triggers. It must also include any stored procedures / routines you are using. Otherwise, when you restore from backup, your procedures will be missing.
This article is not about Microsoft SQL Server. This concerns MySQL and its forks MariaDB and Percona.
I've found lots of people asking this question on the web, but not many of the posts I've found have a working answer.
Currently, my anti-virus software of choice is Bitdefender.
There's a file on a Windows computer called the "hosts file", that most people have no need to change. It lives at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. (Linux-based systems have a hosts file too, at /etc/hosts.) In fact, unless you have a need to change it, and know what you're doing, leave well alone.
This is one of those posts where I stick something on here to help me find it again, and because I won't be the only person trying to solve this.
Microsoft Outlook (msoutlook) is an email client, part of the Microsoft Office suite, and available as part of the Office 365 subscription. Do not confuse this with their online Outlook email service, which is the successor of Hotmail.
I was a longtime customer of PDF software made by a company called Docudesk. After they got bought by SodaPDF, who in turn got bought by Avanquest, the software I'd paid for stopped working. This post details the problem, and how they eventually fixed it for me.
“I think my Facebook account has been hacked. Sorry everyone.”
Anyone who uses Facebook, and has a decent number of Facebook friends, will see this message from time to time.
People get confused about exactly what’s happened, and therefore how to prevent this from happening and how to fix this if it does.
The key thing to understand is that there are two distinct things that can happen to you: Hacked, and cloned.
This is when someone else is able to log in to your Facebook account.
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