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On a Mac when you click a link that is a mailto link it will open the default email application, which is the MacOS Apple Mail app or just Mail.app. Many times you might have another email client such as Outlook or Spark, so you will need to change the default mail client to the…
I use iTerm2 in place of the default Terminal on MacOS or OSX. I was working on a project that has some Debian Stretch VM’s in Google Cloud, so I was logged into those VM’s via SSH using iTerm2. On previous operating systems I would SSH into using iTerm2 I had been able to simply…
When I first purchased the Belkin LED Lighting Starter Kit I didn’t have any issues getting the two A19 LED bulbs working with the Belkin WEMO Link Controller. I recently moved and had all sorts of problems getting the WEMO iPhone application to not only configure the WEMO Link Controller but once configured I could…
Earlier I received a call from a client wanting to know if their VoIP solution would allow them to receive fax calls that would convert a fax to email. After looking at their system the solution was fairly easy since they are running Asterisk with a FreePBX front-end. There are two options with FreePBX when…
While working on a new section of the Question-Defense.com web site that will include articles related to Kali Linux I was creating a menu system that would be similar to the Kali Linux menu system. Once the menu was completed with the necessary content and was visually what I was looking for I needed to…
Tonight when upgrading a CentOS Linux server it was noted by YUM that 15MB more disk space was needed to upgrade grub and the kernel itself. Below are four quick steps to verify what kernels are installed, install yum-utils if it is not installed already, delete previous kernels and set YUM to remove old kernels…
When upgrading packages on Ubuntu using the apt-get upgrade command you may notice that some packages are not upgraded. Ubuntu will not upgrade packages that could have a major impact to service on the server such as the kernel, kernel headers, MySQL packages, and various others. The packages are held back by aptitude as a…
If you use the Amazon Product In A Post Plugin on WordPress you might have either not upgraded yet or decided to not upgrade because the shortcode syntax has changed. You can get around not upgrading by updating the WordPress post content immediately after you upgrade the Amazon Product In A Post Plugin. Below I…
The article below describes an error received while attempting to compile John The Ripper with GPU support via OpenCL on Ubuntu Linux version 12.04 LTS also known as Precise Pangolin. Many compile errors are related to necessary packages not being installed on Linux though other errors could be related to all sorts of different issues…