The point of this article is to document I workaround that I came up with to handle a HDMI KVM switch.
What happens is that if my Linux PC is turned on while the KVM switch is selecting the other PC, it fails to initialize the display, so when you …
This page is used for testing some pelican and markdown extensions I added.
OK, this is awkward... I am not sure if this is needed.
Using del and ins.
test mark tags …
So I gave into the temptation to store "secret" data into a git repository. Of course, to keep things safer, I chose to use an encryption tool. So I tested:
So, I tested git-secret. It seems to work but was in my opinion cumbersome.
Furthermore, the version …
Finally got fedup with github pages and its jekyll static site generator. Essentially things would break without any particular reason and there would be nearly no way to tell what went wrong. I addition, it was not easy to test changes before making them public.
So I switched to pelican …
My ISP provider is KPN. They recently enabled IPv6 in my street. I was using before a IPv6 Tunnel Broker, starting with SixXS and after they went out, with Hurricane Electric. So naturally, I decided to switch to KPN's native IPv6 service.
They provide a /64 prefix, which is reasonable …
These tips are for void linux as that is the distro I am using nowadays.
dconf write /org/mate/desktop/background/picture-filename "'PATH-TO-JPEG'"xbindkeysSome hints and tips foor doing SSL related things:
This command lets you connect to a SSL server (a-la netcat):
cat request.txt | openssl s_client -connect server:443
This is a single command to generate a self-signed certificate:
openssl req -new \
-newkey rsa:4096 …In void Linux, the default is without logging. Most cases it is OK for desktop use.
If you want to enable syslog service in void, you need to install:
socklog-void
Also to let your user have access to the logs, use:
usermod -aG socklog <your-username>
Because I like to have …