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Seth Michael Larson ☛ Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) for SMS
Have you ever wanted the power of email Blind Carbon Copy (BCC), but for SMS? I've wanted this functionality myself for parties and organizing, specifically without needing to use a third-party service. This script automates the difficult parts of drafting and sending a text message to many recipients with SMS URLs and QR codes.
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Ricardo García ☛ Grub no longer detected my Windows installation
With UEFI, it’s not like that. UEFI systems typically have an active or main EFI partition in one of the drives, and that’s the one used to boot the system. The Windows installer places files in the existing EFI partition to allow you to boot Windows, and Grub or, more accurately, the tooling around it, is able to see those and add a Windows boot option. If you only have Windows installed, probably in a computer with a single disk, the EFI partition is also in the Windows disk. But if you have Linux installed on one drive, which contains the EFI partition, and you decide to reinstall Windows, Windows will place its boot loader files into the EFI partition of the Linux drive. That’s what happened to me. The Linux installation was older, because I had recently reinstalled Windows when I switched from an NVIDIA to an AMD GPU. Thus, the EFI partition was in the old Linux drive and Windows had put its boot loader files there. When I plugged in my new drive and installed Fedora from scratch on it, the installer created a new EFI partition in that disk to make it a bootable drive, but the installer and OS prober were nice enough to detect the previous EFI partition in the old drive, and allowed me to boot the old Linux installation, as well as Windows. However, after I cleared the old drive, I accidentally erased the Windows boot loader files in addition to the old Linux entries.
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Linux Capable ☛ How to Install Yandex Browser on Debian
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Ricardo García ☛ Grub no longer detected my backdoored Windows installation [Ed: Sign it's time to leave Microsoft and Windows behind]
Christmas Eve 2025.
It’s late at night and I should really go to bed because Santa is coming tonight.
I’m installing a new hard drive in my computer to replace my existing Fedora GNU/Linux drive.
The new one is larger and faster, and I decide to start from scratch with a new Fedora 43 KDE Plasma Desktop Edition installation.
After the system is installed (super-fast!) I copy data over from my old drive into my new one.
Mostly the home directory and a few other bits.
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University of Toronto ☛ We should probably write some high level overviews of our environment
What I'm thinking of is something as simple as saying (in a bit more words) that we store our data on a bunch of NFS fileservers and people get access to their home directories and so on by logging in to various multi-user Unix servers that all run Ubuntu Linux, or using various standard services like email (IMAP and webmail), Samba/CIFS file access, and printing. Our logins and passwords are distributed around as files from a central password server and a central NFS-mounted filesystem. There's some more that I would write here (including information about our networks) and I'd probably put in a bit more details about some names of the various servers and filesystems, but not too much more.