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Fedora 24 fix – could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “xcb”
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “xcb” This error message is because either the XCB QT5 module can’t be found, or the module can’t be loaded because one of its library dependencies is missing. I ran into this issue when installing VLC from Fedora 24…
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Atlassian Hipchat on Fedora 24
Since Atlassian must find it too difficult to provide instructions for any other Linux distro besides Ubuntu / Debian, I thought I’d jot down the instructions here for Red Hat based distributions. They do provide a YUM / DNF repository to use, but they fail to mention it anywhere in their instructions. Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/hipchat.repo [atlassian-hipchat]…
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Hardening an OpenSSH 6.2+ Server in Ubuntu 14.04
How To Secure Your OpenSSH 6.2+ Server Relearning Secure Authentication Before we even get started on securing OpenSSH you need to make sure your overall security strategy makes sense. Are you securing actual sensitive information or are you just worried about someone snooping your connection? This tutorial assumes you are protecting sensitive data and require…
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OneDrive Linux Client Project Published – FOSS
A great foundation for a proper open-source community project that I really hope others will get involved with to grow this into a proper solution for Linux users seeking OneDrive connectivity.
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Convert Windows Public Certificate (.cer) to OpenSSH Public Key
If you have a PKI certificate in your Windows PC that you would like to use to log in to your OpenSSH-enabled Linux server, it can be a pain to figure out how to extract the public key from this file and convert it into a format OpenSSH can understand.