Happy New Year 2024
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Posts published by: Alejandro Liu
IPv6 on 2023
This is a sequel to my article IPv6 blues. Layout Enabling forwarding Configure networking ...
libnss-db HOWTO
This mini-howto illustrate how to use libnss-db on a Ubuntu Linux system. Other installations should work to after adjusting package names and directory paths. I myself use as a "serverless" lightweight user directory. Essentially, I mount the db directory and the home directory from an NFS server. Package installation ...
Alpine Linux Custom Interface names
This article is a copy of this article and shows how to rename/change name of a network interface. Alpine Linux uses busybox mdev to manage devices in /dev. mdev reads /etc/mdev.conf and according to mdev documentation one can define a command to be executed per device definition. The command which is going to be used to change network interface name is nameif. ...
Alpine boot menu
This article is an update to my Alpine Boot Switcher article. Contents: Preparing boot device ...
Adding static routes in alpine linux
There are several ways to do this documented in the alpine linux wiki. My preferred way is to configure it in /etc/network/interfaces. For example: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static ...
New NacoWiki
Release new version (3.2.1) of NacoWiki. The following changes are included: Added document properties Added opts.yaml API improvements ...
Migrated to NacoWiki Albatros
This edition marks the migration of my Blog from Pelican to NacoWiki Albatros. This is a mostly transparent change. I wrote Albatros specifically to migrate this web site from Pelican to a php based markdown implementation. As such, it uses a slightly modified version of the Pelican theme. ...
File system encryption in Alpine Linux
This is similar to my previous article Encrypting Filesystem in Void Linux but for Alpine Linux The point of this recipe is to create a encrypted file sytem so that when the disc is disposed, it does not need to be securely erased. This is particularly important for SSD devices ...
CSS Tips
Style editor Sending query string with PHP Position sticky Flexbox and Grid ...
Local Startup
This is a method to control start-up of applications in a Linux Desktop session that are run by a local default configuration, but can also be overriden by the user. This is unlike the /etc/xdg/autostart which is mostly under the control of the distro packager. Aslo unlike the /etc/X11/profile.d directory, this runs inside the Desktop Session. /etc/X11/profile.d gets started before the Desktop session is available. ...
Pulse Audio control in python
I have been using a shell script to toggle pulse audio sinks for some time. It worked well enough for switching output among several profiles on a single audio card. I recently upgraded my set-up to new hardware. This hardware for some reason, reported the analog stereo output and the digital HDMI output as different sound cards. So my patoggle script did not work well enough anymore. Since parsing the output of the pacmd in shell script was becoming a pain, I decided to re-write ...
Global hotkeys
To make it easier to switch desktop environment I am using a Desktop Environment independant hot keys configuration using xbindkeys. This lets me use the same keybindings on different Window managers and Desktop Environments. This code can be found in github. Included are the follwoing: ...
XPrinterMgr
This is a small utility to manage a local printer(s) in a home office setting. It will show the state of the printer: accepting or rejecting jobs enable or disabled printing ...
rsync filter rules
Rules Simple include/exclude rules Simple include/exclude example Filter rules when deleting Filter rules in depth ...
Munin-tweaks
Small recipes to tweak munin configurations. Overriding critical and warning levels In the node configuration enter: plugin.field_name.critical value plugin.field_name.warning value The plugin name can be found by clicking in the graph with the value ...
Desktop Environments 2023
Around April 2023, I decided to look for a new Linux Desktop Environment for my personal void linux. So I tried these distros: lxqt: This is the one I eventually chose to switch to. I liked it that it was very small and light, and very modular, almost like a kit that you assemble yourself. Because I have thinking for some time that I would like to make my ...
Personal thoughts on GUI programming
I have been programming for about 40 years. Going through a lot of different languages and programming paradims. Lately most of my programming is done in: bash/shell script Python ...
NacoWiki
A few months ago I extensibly modify picowiki and creeated NanoWiki. After using NanoWiki for a few months, the code became somewhat of an spaghetti mess. This has to do that picowiki was designed as a single file, single class application with Plugin extension. Since every change went to a single class this quickly became difficult to manage. Additionally, I realized that "NanoWiki" was not a very good name as this ...
Python Development 2023
Python development on Windows Distributing Python scripts as single EXE or Directory Installing netifaces on Windows Documentation generation ...
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