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First PHP Lesson Today, with tutor - DB/prog guru Joe Moore. https://databasejoe.com/ This lesson will rely on you researching required VSCode shortcuts yourself: "Ctrl /" and "Shift 1" plus the usual Save, Select All, Undo etc - which you know..? See main site page if not. Install VS code from .deb https://code.visualstudio.com/download sudo apt install ...  Building A PHP Webpage Input Button for DB Connection

cat *.VOB > output.vob Now let's inspect the newly created file: we want to find what kind of stuff it contains. Use FFmpeg for that, as follows: ffmpeg -i output.vob For example, you might end up with something like: Input #0, mpeg, from 'output.vob': Duration: 01:50:40.99, start: 0.287267, bitrate: 7581 kb/s Stream #0:0[0x1bf]: Data: dvd_nav_packet ...  Converting DVD VOB Files to Smaller VOB and MKV with ffmpeg

sudo apt install ffmpeg ffmpeg -i input.avi -vf scale="720:-1" output.avi Shrink size ffmpeg -i /media/stevee/489EB74C63B82B0E/ Iquitos.mp4 -vcodec libx264 -s hd720 -crf 25 -vf copy Dieta3Iquitos.mp4 Merge vids: Let,s create the list first. Here is an example and let us call the list fileList.txt. In this example, both the files are in the home directory. each ...  Joining/Sizing MP4 Video Files

A recent real example I needed was stripping a house sale fixtures and fittings form section from a solicitors bulk PDF. The required pages were from doc CCL ... etc. and pages required from p45-52, so, installing then scrolling to bottom of the man page for an example: sudo apt-get install pdftk: CD into the ...  Manipulating PDFs using PDFTK and PDF-Shuffler

At the failed grub boot prompt you can assume the the non booting drive is /dev/sda1 to start and see if the insmod files are found:  set prefix=(hdX,Y)/boot/grub Or use the values determined by attaching the drive to a working linux install to find the partition order: sudo fdisk -lDisk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, ...  Rescue Your System from an MBR corruption? grub rescue>

The only command I know of that clones an active system drive is DD, but it is very slow at about 30GB / hr, system specs depending..it can do this unlike rsync or cp -vr because it doesn't get stopped by it's own process in /proc or /sys. The fastest way I have found to ...  Quickest Cloning of Working Mint System

Syncback for Win 11: https://www.2brightsparks.com/ Make sure drives are MOUNTED first! rm -vr --i=no /home/stevee/.cache/google-chrome/Default/Cache/* mysqldump -u root -p wp > /var/www/localhostwp.sql mysqldump -u root -p DebianAdmin > /var/www/localhostDA.sql sudo rsync /var/www /media/stevee/87b55176-f602-48db-ac1c-4fe0101b1a79/ -vah sudo rsync /* /media/stevee/51800665-dd6d-4c80-adf4-cf8c0061d0be/ --delete-excluded --exclude={1500,dev,home/stevee/.*,media,proc,sys} -vah rsync /var/www/* /1500/www/ --delete-excluded -vah sudo rsync /var/www/* /media/stevee/WinData/www/ --delete-excluded -vah sudo rsync /* ...  My Rsync Local WordPress Backup Examples (in Win11 I just use Syncback)

A fresh Mint install for WP to run, not just read the wp-*php files will require: sudo apt install mysql-server wordpress apache2 libapache2-mod-php php-mbstring vsftpd php-curl php php-mysql sudo vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf # Sets the default security model of the Apache2 HTTPD server. It does # not allow access to the root filesystem outside of /usr/share ...  WP Info/Search Replace on CMD Line/vsftpd

After a new Mint install! Personal Extras: sudo apt-get install ssh nmap vim automake autoconf module-assistant nbtscan locate libnss-winbind winbind g++ gparted intel-microcode amd64-microcode linux-firmware mysql-server wordpress apache2 samba libapache2-mod-php php-mbstring php-curl php php-mysql sudo passwd root sudo smbpasswd -a stevee To check FS every boot: sudo tune2fs -c 1 /dev/sda1 sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf Uncomment ...  New Mint Install and Want WordPress at Home? Full Steps I Take…