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Category: SOLVED as a Service

Solutions to technical problems with open source software that I use. I post these so that the next time I encounter the same problem and do an Internet search, my own post will come up; this has now actually happened several times. If these posts help others, that’s a bonus.

count-fold-lines: Emacs hack to fold duplicate lines and count them.

January 19, 2023

I just wrote a thing in Emacs that others might find useful: Although the code’s documentation gives a short example,

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SOLVED: ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’ error when going from Debian 9.x (“stretch”) to 10.0 (“buster”).

July 11, 2019

Thanks to user lamayonnaise in this Reddit, I was able to solve the problem described below, which I encountered when

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SOLVED: Error on ‘git clone’ for Redis GitHub repository

April 14, 2016

If you encountered this error when trying to clone the Redis repository from GitHub recently, there is a solution. The

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Fix for WordPress 4.1 front page “Not Found” error (from Stealth Publish plugin).

November 12, 2014

This is a public service announcement for anyone else who runs WordPress straight from SVN trunk and found their site

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Disabling the GNOME Workspace Switcher Popup (in GNOME 3.14 on Debian GNU/Linux).

October 11, 2014

This post is a public service announcement for all those using GNOME 3.14 or higher (in my case on Debian

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Debian Installation: Getting Past the Grub Error.

September 9, 2014

This post is for people who install Debian GNU/Linux and run into this error at the GRUB installation step: Executing

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How to Batch-Edit Multiple Issues in Redmine.

November 2, 2011

This post is for people who use Redmine; others are welcome to stay for the ride if they wish. I’m

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