Jay Versluis

Jay is a medical miracle known as Super Survivor. He runs several YouTube channels and websites, and he's also live on Twitch sometimes. To support him on his mission to make the world a better place, you can support him on Patreon or buy him a coffee.

How to move the vhosts directory in Plesk

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The default directory for all web files in Plesk on Linux is /var/www/vhosts. Usually this works well, but if you’d like to use another partition instead, you’ll be pleased to hear that you can! Parallels (or Odin as we call them now) have written a handy script which moves the content and patches the relevant … Read more

How to show file extensions in Windows

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There are several ways to make the Windows Explorer show full file extensions. The most consistent method I like to use is the following: Windows 7 and 8 click Start to find a Search Box type Folder Options and select it click the View Tab find the option “hide extensions for known file types” untick … Read more

How to show hidden files in the Mac Finder

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Hidden files start with a . on UNIX like systems and OS X is one of them. While we can show hidden files in a Ternimal session by using something like ls -a, it’s not so easy to convince the Finder to show such files. If ever you need to see them, execute the following … Read more

Parallels Cloud Services changes into Odin

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Parallels have announced this week that they’ve changed their name to brand cloud services from Parallels to Odin. This blog post has more details: http://blog.odin.com/serviceprovider/2015/3/24/weve-changed-our-name-parallels-service-provider-business-is-now-odin#.VRVXAVz-_68= While I dislike change for the sake of change, I believe that it makes a lot of sense in this case. I have been working with Parallels products since 2008, … Read more

How to find the UUID of a disk drive in Linux

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There are two ways I know of which will print the UUID of all disk drives attached to the current system: blkid /dev/sr0: UUID=”2014-12-02-19-30-23-00″ LABEL=”CDROM” TYPE=”iso9660″ /dev/sda1: UUID=”ae55a647-3c57-4ab5-9651-1389703fe6fe” TYPE=”ext4″ /dev/sda2: UUID=”bMtCfO-zpDU-7U1t-DcHg-Fe9p-Cy1K-Se0e1I” TYPE=”LVM2_member” /dev/sdb1: UUID=”0982ce66-537a-497b-baaf-99136594f3e8″ TYPE=”ext4″ /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap: UUID=”8f0652a8-d79b-453f-aa2d-0ff0b5d0ae7b” TYPE=”swap” /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root: UUID=”5afc1b25-e6cd-45b2-ad20-69f0fed323b9″ TYPE=”ext4″ /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home: UUID=”94e15e98-1cff-49a9-b76a-a8f3a948e2ea” TYPE=”ext4″ or ls -la /dev/disk/by-uuid total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 160 … Read more

How to disable the ultra annoying Startup Sound on Mac OS X

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I passionately *H*A*T*E* the startup chime that my Mac makes when I switch it on. At least on my MacBook, if the volume is turned down before I shutdown, the system restarts silently. I guess it’s somehow linked to the internal speakers. Sadly on my Mac Mini this approach doesn’t work: due to the lack … Read more