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 ...
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. ...
This article is an update to my Alpine Boot Switcher article. Contents: Preparing boot device ...
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 ...
Release new version (3.2.1) of NacoWiki. The following changes are included: Added document properties Added opts.yaml API improvements ...
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. ...
Style editor Sending query string with PHP Position sticky Flexbox and Grid ...
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. ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
Rules Simple include/exclude rules Simple include/exclude example Filter rules when deleting Filter rules in depth ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 on Windows Distributing Python scripts as single EXE or Directory Installing netifaces on Windows Documentation generation ...
The idea here is that we use a Desktop PC for developing/debugging Raspberry Pi set-ups using qemu for emulating Rasperrby Pi. qemu currently supports the following configurations: Raspberry Pi Zero and 1A+ (armhf) Raspberry Pi 2B (armv7) ...
For a while I was using TabletClock with old tablets. But this has not been updated in a while. I was thinking of writing my own version until I found WallPanel. Essentially it is purposely built web-browser with special features which makes it possible to use it to replaces TabletClock. Essentially, I could replace TabletClock with a web-page showing the time and a weather ...
For years I have been using VNC for my remote desktop needs. This works usually well enough. The features that I like are: Basic set-up is easy Desktop sessions are persistent Can be used to view an actual X11.org desktop. ...