Minefield: Minecraft Mods, Plugins & Servers Explained

Minefield: Minecraft Mods, Plugins & Servers Explained

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In this post I will be discussing Minecraft: Java Edition exclusively. This is part 2 of my articles on Minecraft. Make sure you check out part 1 first. While Bedrock Edition has simplified how players access custom content, the original and argued by many still the best way to enjoy Minecraft is to use custom game servers and modpacks using Java edition. As with any mod community, there are many different mods from different developers and several ways of modding…

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Prevent automatic change of audio device – Ubuntu

Prevent automatic change of audio device – Ubuntu

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If you are using HDMI or DisplayPort for audio, the devices regularly seem to switch back to in-built audio all by themselves. This can be due to the HDMI device becoming unavailable when the monitor turns itself off, causing PulseAudio to choose a different device. This causes a problem as PulseAudio does not automatically go back to the originally selected device once the HDMI device has returned. This is very frustrating as it means constantly having to re-selected the prefered…

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SteamCMD Workaround for “appid 90” HLDS Games Servers Part II

SteamCMD Workaround for “appid 90” HLDS Games Servers Part II

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Update October 2017: It seems this issue has returned after Valve fixed it several years ago. I have updated this repo with new app_manifest files for each server. Hopefully Valve fix the issue again. HLDS (GoldSrc) games use appid 90 to download the game server files from SteamCMD. There is a bug that prevents all the files being downloaded from SteamCMD. Getting all the files can take any number of attempts for SteamCMD to download them all. The fix is…

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Debian 7 “Wheezy” LTS Updates

Debian 7 “Wheezy” LTS Updates

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Debian 7 “Wheezy” Is managed by the LTS (Long Term Support) team. Who are responsible for security updates on wheezy until May 2018. To continue to receive updates you will need to update your sources.list. vi /etc/apt/sources.list Add the following to your sources.list file deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free…

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Backblaze B2 Reaching “Class C Transactions Cap” with Synology NAS

Backblaze B2 Reaching “Class C Transactions Cap” with Synology NAS

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Symptom You may be getting the following alerts via email. Class C Transactions Cap Reached 100% You have reached 100% of the free Backblaze Daily Class C Transactions Cap. To increase your Daily Class C Transactions Cap or to change your Cap Notification Settings log on to the ‘Caps & Alerts’ page When you login to the Backblaze control panel you will see your class C transactions cap has reached. Reason Synology cloud sync by default does a sync check for files every…

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Cloud Backup for Synology NAS using BackBlaze B2

Cloud Backup for Synology NAS using BackBlaze B2

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This tutorial will run though the set up Backblaze B2 cloud storage as a backup method for your Synology NAS using Cloud Sync. What is Backblaze B2? Backblaze B2 is a recently released cloud backup storage solution that works with Synology NAS (and other applications). It  charges $0.005 per GB to backup; this works out at around $5 for 1TB. By far the cheapest cloud storage solution compared to others, finally making it affordable for to use this type of solution….

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Pushbullet: How to Send a message from Bash

Pushbullet: How to Send a message from Bash

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With this simple one line of code it is possible to send a message to your Pushbullet account from the Linux terminal. This is great if you want your BASH script to message you when a specific task completes or fails. All that is required is a Pushbullet token that you can obtain from the settings within your PushBullet Account. This can be found here https://www.pushbullet.com/#settings Now paste the code to your terminal replacing the pushbullettoken with your own token and changing…

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