Quick Tips - Category - Worker7 https://www.worker7.com/categories/quick-tips/ Quick Tips - Category - Worker7 Hugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 21 Mar 2025 16:51:38 -0400 Disable Dash Auto Updates https://www.worker7.com/posts/disable-dash-auto-updates/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:51:38 -0400 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/disable-dash-auto-updates/ While I understand the switch of Dash’s business model from a perceptual license to a subscription model, my usage and needs do not justify a subscription. Annoyingly the app always updates to the latest subscription version. You can disable this behaviour by selecting tiny checkbox on the update dialog and then skipping the update on the old version.

]]> Capitalize Joplin Tags https://www.worker7.com/posts/capitalize-joplin-tags/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:44:42 -0400 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/capitalize-joplin-tags/ While the official approach in Joplin is to lower case all tags to avoid collisions I kinda like to have my tags capitalized. To automatically update all tags in the Joplin database follow these steps:

]]> LXC Container Internet Access https://www.worker7.com/posts/lxc-container-internet-access/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:33:56 -0500 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/lxc-container-internet-access/ I tried forever to get internet access in my LXC container to work. It turns out the iptables was configure badly. The following command will fix the issue:

]]> How to Set EXIF GPS Coordinates Manually https://www.worker7.com/posts/how-to-set-exif-gps-coordinates-manually/ Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:24:19 -0400 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/how-to-set-exif-gps-coordinates-manually/ Usually I use a GPS tracker on my phone when taking pictures so that I can sync up the GPS data later. Every so often I for get to start the tracker and need to manually set the GPS data by hand. The easiest way I found was by using the exiftool. This is a command line tool often considered the swiss army knife of EXIF data. Below is the command on how to set the GPS data on some files. I also added -overwrite_original parameter to not have the tool create a backup file. To actually get the GPS coordinate data you can choose yout favorite online tool.

]]> How to Find and Delete Queries in Mysql https://www.worker7.com/posts/how-to-find-and-delete-queries-in-mysql/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:04:10 -0500 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/how-to-find-and-delete-queries-in-mysql/ Every once in a while I need to find and delete some rouge queries in MySQL. Here is how to show the list of queries for the current users:

]]> Samba Empty Folder https://www.worker7.com/posts/samba-empty-folder/ Sun, 22 Jan 2023 13:40:16 -0500 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/samba-empty-folder/ I recently had an folder in one of my network shares showing up empty, despite the fact that it was not empty. After some investigation it turned out that the containg folder had a trailing space symbol, which is not allowed in the SMB protocol. Removing the trailing space (and reloading the mount) fixed the issue. I ran the following command to see if I had more folders with that issue and sure enough I found another one.

]]> OSX Mount NFS With Proper Unicode Encoding https://www.worker7.com/posts/osx-mount-nfs-with-proper-unicode-encoding/ Fri, 14 Oct 2022 21:38:12 -0400 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/osx-mount-nfs-with-proper-unicode-encoding/ I recently move my external storage to a NAS. After some testing I decided to use NFS instead of SMB to mount my data. One issue I ran into was that OSX was not correctly showing filenames that contained unicodes. The solution was to use the nfc (Normalization Form C) option when mounting the filesystem.

]]> Homebrew Uninstall Unused Dependencies https://www.worker7.com/posts/homebrew-uninstall-unused-dependencies/ Fri, 11 Mar 2022 23:25:59 -0500 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/homebrew-uninstall-unused-dependencies/ The simplest way of removing stale homebrew dependencies is by running brew autoremove.

]]> Speedup Restic Backups After A Drive Replacement https://www.worker7.com/posts/speedup-restic-backups-after-drive-replacement/ Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:24:48 -0500 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/speedup-restic-backups-after-drive-replacement/ I recently had to upgrade an external hard drive to a higher capacity. I used rsync in the archive mode to ensure to preserve all the necessary meta data. One of the main reasons for this was to avoid having to re-read the whole drive in backup programs (due to changed timestamp). In the case of restic though it was scanning all the files nonetheless.

]]> Download a Webpage for Offline Access https://www.worker7.com/posts/download-a-webpage-for-offline-access/ Sat, 28 Aug 2021 22:53:21 -0400 worker7 https://www.worker7.com/posts/download-a-webpage-for-offline-access/ How to download a webpage to access it offline?

Sometimes it is useful to download/mirror a webpage locally such that you can access it without internet connection (e.g., download documentation of a library tool). This is easily down via wget. The following command shows all the necessary parameters we need:

# wget --no-check-certificate --no-clobber --page-requisites -m -np -k https://www.foo.com
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