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Activate Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 Pro for Free

A guide how to get and activate Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 Pro for free!

NOTE

If you see the Windows keyboard button in this guide; and you can't find it on your keyboard, you likely have/had Windows 10 which has the button . If you can't find that one, you likely have a PC that has been upgraded to Windows 8/8.1/10/11 from Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP and other ones. If you have one of those, refer the Windows key button to as yours. A list of them is below:

Windows key buttons

- Windows 11

- Windows 10

Ubuntu Server

The steps taken to setup a Ubuntu web server.

Update

Update Aptitude:

sudo apt-get update

Generating Authy passwords on other authenticators

*update: TBC, but this new might affect how easy it is to use this technique past August 2024: Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August

This gist, based in part on a gist by Brian Hartvigsen, allows you to export from Authy your TOTP tokens you have stored there.
Those can be "standard" 6-digits / 30 secs tokens, or Authy's own version, the 7-digits / 10 secs tokens.

Step by Step guide to install Apache Tomcat on Amazon Linux

Prerequisites:

Amazon Linux Machine with a minimum of 1GB RAM. It will be sufficent to do A proof of concept (POC).
Open Port.No: 8080 in EC2-security group.

Install Java.

sudo su - 
amazon-linux-extras install java-openjdk11=latest -y

	# Unmount /home

	umount /home

	# Shrink the /home filesystem

	fsck -f /dev/mapper/fedora-hmoe
	resize2fs /dev/mapper/fedora-home 100G

	# Shrink the /home logical volume

	<?php

	/**
	* This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
	*
	* Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
	* distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
	* binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
	* means.
	*

	<?php

	use Valet\Drivers\ValetDriver;

	class LocalValetDriver extends ValetDriver
	{
	public function serves(string $sitePath, string $siteName, string $uri): bool
	{
	return true;
	}

	docker run \
	--name {{printf "%q" .Name}} \
	{{- with .HostConfig}}
	{{- if .Privileged}}
	--privileged \
	{{- end}}
	{{- if .AutoRemove}}
	--rm \
	{{- end}}
	{{- if .Runtime}}

	pos = 0 1 6
	pos = 0 1 7
	pos = 0 1 8
	pos = 0 1 9
	pos = 0 1 10
	pos = 0 1 11
	pos = 0 1 12
	pos = 0 1 13
	pos = 0 1 14
	pos = 0 1 15

	# Libraries and infrastructure
	sudo apt update -y
	sudo apt install -y \
	docker.io docker-buildx \
	build-essential pkg-config autoconf bison rustc cargo clang \
	libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libjemalloc2 \
	libvips imagemagick libmagickwand-dev mupdf mupdf-tools \
	redis-tools sqlite3 libsqlite3-0 libmysqlclient-dev \
	rbenv apache2-utils