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#!/bin/bash
#check if this script is running in su mode 
func_check_for_root() {
        if [ ! $( id -u ) -eq 0 ]; then
            echo "ERROR: $0 Must be run as root, Script terminating" ;exit 7
        fi
    }
func_check_for_root

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

VERSION_PATTERN="([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)"

case "${1}" in
"phpstorm")
  TOOL_NAME="PhpStorm"
  INSTALL_DIR="/opt/phpstorm"
  case "${2}" in
    "eap")

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http://timestamp.globalsign.com/scripts/timstamp.dll
http://timestamp.globalsign.com/?signature=sha2
http://rfc3161timestamp.globalsign.com/advanced
https://timestamp.geotrust.com/tsa
http://timestamp.sectigo.com
http://timestamp.wosign.com
http://tsa.startssl.com/rfc3161
http://time.certum.pl
http://timestamp.digicert.com
https://freetsa.org

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(Assuming a Debian 8-like system)

• Install prometheus-node-exporter

  $ sudo apt update && sudo apt install prometheus-node-exporter

• Configure prometheus-node-exporter to expose metrics only to localhost, not on to all networks. Modify file /etc/default/prometheus-node-exporter:

  # Set the command-line arguments to pass to the server.

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#
# Sources:
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7704624/how-can-i-use-gzip-compression-for-css-and-js-files-on-my-websites
# http://codex.wordpress.org/Output_Compression
# http://www.perun.net/2009/06/06/wordpress-websites-beschleuinigen-4-ein-zwischenergebnis/#comment-61086
# http://www.smashingmagazine.com/smashing-book-1/performance-optimization-for-websites-part-2-of-2/
# http://gtmetrix.com/configure-entity-tags-etags.html
# http://de.slideshare.net/walterebert/die-htaccessrichtignutzenwchh2014
# http://de.slideshare.net/walterebert/mehr-performance-fr-wordpress
# https://andreashecht-blog.de/4183/

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Setup VSCode with Live Server and a Docker container

In this I will shortly describe how to setup

• LiveServer Webextension
• LiveServer VSCode Extension
• with a php-apache docker instance.

I used a docker-compose.yml file although I only created one container with no other dependencies. This works with a regular Dockerfile as well.

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Upload files

Using the REST API to upload a file to WordPress is quite simple. All you need is to send the file in a POST-Request to the wp/v2/media route.

There are two ways of sending a file. The first method simply sends the file in the body of the request. The following PHP script shows the basic principle:

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rclone systemd service

Preparation

This service will use the same remote name you specified when using rclone config create. If you haven't done that yet, do so now.

Next, create the mountpoint for your remote. The service uses the location ~/mnt/<remote> by default.

mkdir ~/mnt/dropbox

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1. Run sudo vim /etc/default/grub
2. Find GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
3. Append video=hyperv_fb:[the resolution you want], for example: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash video=hyperv_fb:1920x1080"
4. Write the changes, quit Vim
5. Run sudo update-grub
6. Run sudo reboot

h/t https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/virtual_pc_guy/2014/09/19/changing-ubuntu-screen-resolution-in-a-hyper-v-vm/

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Enabling full Hyper-V support for Ubuntu

Install packages

Short version: See docs.microsoft.com link below.

Ubuntu 17.04 and later

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install linux-image-virtual linux-tools-virtual linux-cloud-tools-virtual