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Parallel execution in Bash example

Posted on August 1, 2025 by Colin Faber
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Below is an example I vibe coded up with Grok which provides parallel execution of tasks within Bash 4.3+ and later. It leverages internal bash features as well as external temporary tracking files for output capture. It seems to work … Continue reading →

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Changing file associations with Brave browser

Posted on November 6, 2023 by Colin Faber
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How to change and automatically open downloaded files based on extension in Brave browser? Here’s how I found to do it! Continue reading →

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Installing Brave browser on Kubuntu 22.04

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Colin Faber
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Fix: N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘main/binary-i386/Packages’ as repository ‘https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’ errors when installing Brave or other packages on recent Ubuntu / Kubuntu systems Continue reading →

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Oneplus 6 phone dialing issues

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Colin Faber
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When your OP6 phone dialing dies, check this as a possible solution. Continue reading →

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snap + firefox made me angry

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Colin Faber
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How to disable snap and reinstall mozilla firefox non-snap packages on Ubuntu Linux 22.04 and later Continue reading →

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Extremely useful .htaccess ReWrite validator

Posted on November 22, 2022 by Colin Faber
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So as I was working on one of my many web projects, I needed / wanted a faster way to validate my Apache web servers URL rewrite rules. This site did the trick and worked great: https://htaccess.madewithlove.com/

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JBL BAR 5.1 wireless soundbar firmware upgrade

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Colin Faber
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A quick write up on how to successfully perform a firmware upgrade on a JBL 5.1 Soundbar with wireless speakers Continue reading →

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Microsoft Outlook 2016… Sigh…

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Colin Faber
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As part of my day to day work I find my self forced into a Windows 7, Microsoft Office environment. This is already painful enough having to slog through the crippling security restrictions imposed on me by corporate InfoSec and … Continue reading →

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Epison scanners and Windows 10

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Colin Faber
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Today, after the July 2018 Patch Tuesday session for my wife’s Surface tablet she started complaining about everything locking up and her computer crashing. This was a problem because she had a large number of documents to scan in, which … Continue reading →

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Disabling systemd-resolvd service on Ubuntu systems

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Colin Faber
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What is systemd-resolved? systemd-resolved acts as a systemd based DNS proxy system which has intelligent request handling both from a D-BUS interface as well as a DNS server to intercept traditional network lookups. It performs this task by setting a … Continue reading →

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