Adding a swap file to small Digital Ocean droplets on Ubuntu

If you have a smaller droplet on DigitalOcean, chances are you will need to create a swap file at some point. This small tutorial is here to help remind me how to do this, and hopefully help others at the same time.

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Edit Dovecot on cPanel to remove permanent spam and Junk folders

A simple way to disable cPanel from forcing you to see unwanted ‘spam’ and/or ‘Junk’ folders in IMAP.

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cPanel yum update gives Error: Package: perl-Git

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Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’!

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We’ve moved to Craft

Albeit fairly new to CraftCMS, my first experiences have been pretty awesome. The only thing better than Craft itself has been the support. Brandon, the Pixel & Tonic team, and the community, have been wonderful. Of all the the Craft features, the two that stand out the most… so far… are ease of installation and setup, and the speed. Oh, and auto updates.

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Dropbox causing numerous opendirectoryd errors in macOS logs

Do you run Dropbox? Find your machine slow sometimes or Dropbox seems to sync endlessly? Do you see thousands of these errors appearing every second in your console? These issues might be the result of having dead symlinks in Dropbox.

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Stop Windows Microsoft Word from hijacking your links

Windows Word hijacks all hyper links by default when you are using a browser other than the default Microsoft browser. There is no way to change this default behaviour in settings. Microsoft was nice enough through to offer a little application, which changes some registry settings and reverts the handling of all links in Word to your default browser (Chrome or Firefox etc).

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Turn off Chrome cache

Use Chrome with Cache fully disabled.

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How to install Subversion on cPanel 11.50.x and higher

This tutorial will walk you through the steps to installing Subversion 1.8.14 on cPanel. You will end up with a command line version and the ability to access your SVN repositories via the browser securely.

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Is oh-my-zsh slow?

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