Looking for a list of books to read?
Look no further. Some interesting books on this list here: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/naval-ravikant
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What is RAID? – (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
If you were wondering what RAID stands for or what it means, here is a great link explaining it very clearly. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-raid-terminology-and-concepts As a TL;DR version, RAID 0 = Zebra crossing ie striping. 2 HDD with half the data on each. 1 HDD breaks, you’ve lost half your data. But because it cannot be rebuilt,… Read More »
A blank Atlassian confluence nav bar
If you have logged in and seen a blue navigational bar in Confluence and wondered where did the options to create pages go then you are not the only one. The navigational bar should look like this: One reason is when your license has expired, you still have the ability to log in a view… Read More »
Microsoft Word borderless printing a pdf document
If you have this… and you want this… But you get this… Then try this… The secret is to go to File > Page Setup and then choose the paper size to be Borderless > Borderless. Then you can… Read More »
Need to check if your ports are open?
http://canyouseeme.org/ is a good responsive site that will do a port scan. It also helps to reboot your router if some of the rules are not doing what you expect them to do.
Port Forwarding Problems
Setting up port forwarding on a router is actually quite standard so if you cannot crack it in 30 mins or 1 hour stop and don’t waste any more time. I found this the hard way spending weeks figuring out why port forwarding wouldn’t work on my router. I then found out that it wasn’t… Read More »
Apple Mac Character Code Shortcuts
Here is a neat cheat sheet of character codes for the likes of proportional, infinity, the Greek alphabet and more. Ref: http://www.geoff-hart.com/resources/accents-mac.pdf
Generating keys for Bitbucket
If you are getting this error from Bitbucket: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. It means that bitbucket doesn’t have your public key. You need to generate one if you don’t have it or upload it. To generate one follow these instructions here. Next, you want to add this to your… Read More »
What you’ll wish you’d known
A good read. http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Honesty
Shane Parrish interviews Naval Ravikant on a variety of topics. Very enlightening and shows a higher level of thinking. Highly recommend. Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Honesty and More Transcript here: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Naval-Ravikant-TKP.pdf