Month: August 2017
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eJabberd “Cannot read schema”
Trying to start ejabberd I got errors such as these: 2017-09-01 00:35:06.928 [error] <0.37.0> CRASH REPORT Process <0.37.0> with 0 neighbours exited with reason: {aborted,{“Cannot read schema”,”/var/lib/ejabberd/schema.DAT”,{error,{file_error,”/var/lib/ejabberd/schema.DAT”,eacces}}}} in application_master:init/4 line 133 Turns out I made a very simple mistake; I had attempted to start eJabebrd with “systemctl start ejabberd”. However, ejabberd brings its own control […]
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Easy-RSA: “failed to update database”
Attempted to create a new certificate using the EasyRSA suite and got the following error: “failed to update database” Unfortunately the script is pretty laconic, but some quick testing showed this was due to trying to re-use the default display name: Name [EasyRSA]: Picked a different name and the script committed my certificate correctly.
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How to Hide and Unhide Cells in Microsoft Excel
This is a great little how-to on hiding and unhiding cells in Microsoft Excel: http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/excelformatting/qt/070814unhidecol.htm
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Geekworker has a new home
Please excuse the mess: We’ve moved! I got tired of my (self-hosted) wordpress site for several reasons, the main ones being: Having my own hardware in a datacenter is way too expensive WordPress ran way too slowly and I felt like I do not have the time to properly optimise it So, I’ve migrated the […]