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How To RDP into Ubuntu?...

So many IT pros with a windows background cross paths with Linux and are shocked to learn that nothing in Linux has a UI and yet it’s the preferred server for open source apps. Many feel helpless without the GUI of Linux because Windows likes to make a GUI for almost every single thing you want to d...

How to post a job on Google Jobs?...

Well very few know about the google jobs widget. Google Jobs widget is where google shamelessly promotes its own new jobs aggregator product over everyone else’s who’ve been working hard for 30+ years to build awesome job boards. A lot of people don’t even realize that they’ve entered the Google Jo...

What you cannot (should not) use EIDL Loan for?...

So you got approved for an EIDL loan, should’ve made things easy but you may now be wondering “I didn’t really need this money should I invest it?” “use it to pay off another high interest loan” “you also got approved for PPP and you’d rather use those funds for business.” Now in regards to PPP loa...

SocialEngine Unite : it's not there yet...

Social Engine PHP, their self-hosted option is an amazing amazing product, we first used it in 2008 and had many clients ask for it as it wowed them. However, SocialEngine Unite and the new interface to manage SocialEngine Unite seem like a rushed job at least as of April 2020. It seems like it ...

What AWS does not/will never realize...

AWS has long ignored their lightsail product. How can you tell? * The poor UI that hasn’t changed for years * the limitation on number of static IPs and instances * No autoscaling feature on DBs * No easy way to increase capacity of DBs or instances * No addition to 1-click apps like digital o...

NodeBB review: doesn't seem to be production ready...

One thing we love : Node.js, hence a need of forum software started and ended with NodeBB. There are no other options. However having spent 48 hours with it, it seems learning Ruby on Rails [https://rubyonrails.org/]  is worth it just to use Discourse instead. Here was the journey with NodeBB: 1....

Gemini : An awesome crypto platform...

For the past four years, Gemini’s team has been building the most trusted and secure cryptocurrency platform on the market. Gemini’s team is on a mission to not only build the future of money but to create educational and informative content to help you navigate the industry. Gemini continues to ex...

Yarn let us down today : "There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying..."...

An engineer could not run yarn this morning, asked another engineer if yarn was working for her, but it kept failing. we thought it's our corporate network that is down but it couldn't have been because everything else seemed to be working. so we logged on to a Windows VM on GCP. Since we are a Goog...

How to delete invalid emails from MYSQL DB...

Often times we’ll find ourselves with invalid data in our database and we just want to clean it up. Particularly invalid emails. This SQL query helped us get 1 step closer to deleting invalid emails from our db. Note: Query only checks for email format and abc@abc.co will pass Delete e.* From <t...

AWS : Free Machine Learning (ML) virtual event...

Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM–1:30 PM Pacific Time 12:00 PM–4:30 PM Eastern Time Learn More & Register » [https://email.awscloud.com/ol/h0lZdcfLdlhd6BYnucijD_67yXiSKsr_7eQwRLq1hpZsjB0zYv7APAyixYIBTsRlM7nYDBEXGpQ8kEpcE-TILMZT9KgNTUS7XGbxiaLRT4tcfrpn2c9lsaSknnUMroDQwgWUWxtZGCkqZw6Ya...