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Is there a way to permanently set the font and window size in PuTTY?

When I log in with PuTTY, I always have to: change settings appearance font change 8 resize window so that I can see enough text to work with the log files. I don't see where I can save these settings to my saved session. Is this…
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vsftpd - local_root=/var/www/sites/$USER doesn't get interpreted?

When I'm trying to connect to FTP server I get: "500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/$USER/public_html" when I do echo $USER - I get proper username seems like $USER isn't interpreted inside my /etc/vsftpd.conf when I remove…
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Is there a tool to compare values in .ini files?

I'm looking for a file comparison utility specifically for .ini files, typically used as settings files. There are plenty of file comparison tools (WinDiff, Beyond Compare, CompareIt, WinMerge, ...), but none of the tools I tried can handle .ini…
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What is the exhaustive list of command line shortcuts to Microsoft settings?

I've gotten quite used to typing compmgnt.msc or similar commands to bring up certain dialogs faster than it would take me to navigate to them. For this one in particular I just tap Start then r enter c o down-arrow enter. There's others I use too,…
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How do I disable remote printers using group policy

When I configure a new remote desktop connection to connect to servers I often forget to uncheck the option inside of local devices and resources for remote printers. This creates exceptions in the event log for the server I connect of source:…
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Why are my remote shells talking to me in Italian?

Of late I have noticed that many of the commands respond to me in foreign language. According to Google translate it is Italian.(See screenshot) I have noticed that this happens to me only when I ssh to some remote system, as in this case. When I…
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Restoring Printer Settings

We're trying to standardise our printing environment to provide consistent settings across our various print queues. To do this, we would like create a settings file per model of printer so that they can be used to quickly deploy new Windows print…
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MPM Prefork, too many apache2 process?

I have this settings: StartServers 5 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 ServerLimit 1250 MaxClients 1250 MaxRequestsPerChild 1500 Is possibile…
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Set default locale on linux server

How can I change linux default locale, so that all users and applications will have the same locale settings? Br, Wolfy
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How can I change the location of a virtual machine hard drive location?

I have created a windows server 2012 r2 server to be used as a domain controler but I left the hard drive on the C: drive, instead of saving it with all other virtual machine stuff on the D: drive. How can I change that?
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What is the complement to 'set' in EdgeOS? (How do I check a value in EdgeRouter?)

This question discusses how to set the gui and ssh listening addresses in EdgeOS running on an EdgeRouter. I'd like to check my current configuration before making a change, as well as learn the syntax for checking other settings in the…
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What are the most useful "defaults"?

Mac OS X has a commandline tool called "defaults". It lets you set certain properties, for example: enable the "Debug" menu in Safari: defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1 What is the most useful "hidden" "defaults write ..." command…
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nginx: how to overwrite one directive

I'm trying to organize my vhost configs in several files, so that there is a view basic files / "templates" and the rest just include them and overwite settings as needed. Here is described, how the inheritance in nginx works. What I'd like to know,…
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Is it possible to set vm.overcommit_memory =1 only for specific containers?

So, I'm running a container that is showing this in the log: WARNING overcommit_memory is set to 0! Background save may fail under low memory condition. To fix this issue add 'vm.overcommit_memory = 1' to /etc/sysctl.conf and then reboot or run the…
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Choose which folders appear on start (menu) setting via group policy

There is a number of switches available under a setting in windows 10 called "Choose which folders appear on Start". I find them very handy but by default only Settings is switched on. I would like to be able to modify this default setting and push…
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