Beginners Guide to Improving Your Audio
This is a guest post by DreamLab Studio, who kindly shared this information on our Discord Server. This is an expanded edition I thought would be great for everyone. Enjoy! So you have decided you want to start creating your own content to share online. Perhaps you want to make YouTube videos, create a podcast, or maybe start live streaming. One problem you may run into is working with Audio. You may think it’s going to be the easiest thing to deal with, after all humans have been recording audio since 1877 thanks to Thomas Edison....
read moreHow to add File Upload Capabilities to the Contributor Role in WordPress
I never noticed this before, but it appears that the Contributor Role in WordPress does not come with ability to upload files to an instance. That’s slightly weird, given that most users will probably assign this role to users who shall be able to write content for a site, and with good content inevitably come images in this day and age. According to WordPress, the roles included with WordPress are mere examples or “capability collections” so to speak, and we’re free to create our own, or add/remove capabilities from...
read moreHow to install Blender on CentOS 7
I’ve been trying to build Blender from source on CentOS for many years, but never had any luck making it work. There was always one package missing, or something else that needed to be configured. Depressed and resentful, I gave up and never got a chance to try Blender on CentOS. Recently, the Blender Devs have started releasing a pre-compiled version of Blender for CentOS for download. This should work on RHEL and Fedora just as well. Huzzah! With a fresh installation of CentOS looking at me from my old Samsung Q330 laptop, I thought...
read moreHow to revert a yum update on CentOS
Every so often, a yum update brings unexpected results with it, like services no longer working due to spurious error messages that don’t tell you what’s actually wrong. This only very rarely happens though, and we may need to revert to the state of our system before such an update took place. Thankfully, yum has a nice feature that helps us do this, namely yum history. The command will bring up the latest 20 transactions by default, be those installs, updates or removals. There’s a transaction ID at the very front of each...
read moreWhere are the OBDUCTION screenshots saved?
On a Windows system, the screenshots are saved here: C:/Users/username/AppData/Local/Obduction/Saved/SaveGames/Slot0 Each screenshot is saved as a square-cropped version, as well as a high-res 16:9 version (both in .jpg format).
read moreHow to create a read-only channel in Discord
Some of the simplest things to do often turn out to be the hardest ones – only because we have no idea how to do them properly. One of those tasks is setting up a simple read-only channel on Discord. What I mean by that is a channel that you and perhaps an admin can post in (like a welcome or rules channel), readable by everybody, nut you don’t want anyone to be able to leave reactions or post messages in it. I’m fairly new to Discord, and while many features appear very intuitive, this one neither of us could work out for...
read moreHow to switch from JFIF to JPEG on Drag-and-Drop in Windows 10
I’ve recently noticed that when I drag an image out of Firefox, it saves itself as a JFIF image on Windows 10. Choosing to save the same image via the right-click context menu will save it as JPEG image as expected. This perplexed me, so I did some research and found a fix that would let me save images with a .jpg extension when dragged out of a web browser. I did this by associating the correct file format in Registry Editor. Let me show you how it works in this article. What is JFIF again? JFIF is apparently the JPEG File Interchange...
read moreThe macOS Installation couldn’t be completed. Now what?
My MacBook Pro (2011) recently developed an issue after I had tried upgrading it to the latest version of High Sierra. Some security patch came along, and after bugging me for several weeks, I finally gave in and installed it. Sadly, after macOS tried to restart I got a message like this: I tried restarting several times, but without luck. The message varies slightly at times, often accompanied by an error log and a more explicit message that something went wrong, but not with simple solutions on how to rectify the situation. What worked for...
read moreRedirecting a secure domain in Plesk
There are several ways to make two domains resolve to the same content in Plesk. The easiest option is to setup a Domain Alias. That way, domain1.com and domain2.com both serve the same content from the same subscription. This worked great for non-SSL domains, but if you have a secured domain, the redirection will be detected by modern browsers and a certificate warning appears. Not what we want. Another way to achieve the same thing is to create a separate subscription in Plesk, then change the Hosting Settings to Forwarding. This will...
read moreScreensharing and Video Calls in Discord
We had a blast last night trying to setup our first screensharing/conference call through Discord. We’re so used to Skype and FaceTime that these habits have made it a little difficult for us to grab the concept of getting started with Discord calls. Before we forget how it works, I thought I’d better take some notes. Here’s how we made it happen. The Concept While anyone with the right permissions can chat in a text or voice channel, video sharing appears to be possible only during a private DM conversation (that’s...
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