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How to set MySQL as GNUCash backend

January 2, 2017 by Cristian

How to set up GNUCash free opensource accounting software to use a MySQL database

Categories General, GNU/Linux Tags accounting, finance, GNU/Linux, GNUCash, mysql 3 Comments

How to install Fedora in 25 easy steps

May 27, 2015 by Cristian

I’m going to show you all the steps needed to install Fedora on your system, for this tutorial I’m going to use the latest version of Fedora which was released early this morning which is Fedora 22. I assume you already visited the Fedora download page and downloaded the corresponding ISO image and burned it …

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Categories GNU/Linux Tags fedora, fedora 22, fedora install, install fedora, linux Leave a comment

How to fix “disk contains BIOS metadata error”

April 21, 2017September 7, 2014 by Cristian

A couple of days ago I had to perform an OS install on a customer’s Dell RX 200 server. It was a spare machine that was previously used for backups. Everything went fine until at some point during installation I received the following message: “Disk contains BIOS metadata, but is not part of any recognized …

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Categories General, GNU/Linux 7 Comments

How to create or remove files that start with a hyphen, dash or minus

August 12, 2014 by Cristian

Today I received an interesting question: “How to remove files that start with a hyphen, dash or a minus?“ Although I knew how to create one, I assumed that these files can be removed by escaping the dash. Well, I was wrong, just use the same method that you use to create them! Or use …

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