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flatpak

Flatpak is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. Flatpak was developed as part of the freedesktop.org project and was originally called xdg-app …

Using XScreenSaver Hacks with mate-screensaver

Here we explain how to use XScreenSaver EXCELLENT screensaver hack collection with the MATE screensaver applet.

  • Install xscreensaver and mate-screensaver
  • On my linux distribution this creates the following directories:
    • /usr/libexec/xscreensaver: contains the screensaver hacks executables
    • /usr/libexec/mate-screensaver : contains the mate-screensaver executables
    • /usr/share/applications/screensavers : containes the …

Ascii Art Tools

Here are some resources dealling with ASCII art...

  • AsciiToSVG - PHP code to convert ascii art into SVG.
  • AsciiFlow - Web App implement an ascii art editor.
  • Asciio A perl application allows you to draw ASCII diagrams in a modern (but simple) graphical interface.
  • ditaa - Java based ascii art to PNG converter …

Centos Install notes

Set-up local.repo

yum installs:

  • nfs-utils autofs
  • @x11
  • @xfce
  • wget
  • dejavu-sans-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts dejavu-serif-fonts
  • xorg-x11-fonts-{Type1,misc,75dpi,100dpi}
  • bitmap-console-fonts bitmap-fixed-fonts bitmap-fonts-compat bitmap-lucida-typewriter-fonts
  • ucs-miscfixed-fonts urw-fonts
  • open-sans-fonts
  • webcore-fonts webcore-fonts-vista
  • liberation-mono-fonts liberation-sans-fonts liberation-serif-fonts
  • bitstream-vera-sans-fonts bitstream-vera-serif-fonts
  • gnu-free-{mono,sans,serif}-fonts
  • tk
  • firefox
  • mplayer ffmpeg alsa-utils
  • xsensors xfce4-sensors-plugin
  • keepassx
  • git

Building RPM packages with …

CyberWorld 2017.1

Development - travis cordova build - travis ionic build

  • owx
    • common
      • muninlite (can it support plugins?)
      • flock, pwgen, ifstat
    • ow1
      • diags&tools: usbutils, netstat-nat
      • sniffer: tcpdump[-mini] 317K/617K, libpcap 191K
    • owX
      • FW/NAT
      • DNSMASQ: DHCP + DNS
      • NTP server
      • Dynamic DNS updating (mushu porker)
      • NFS
      • IPv6 tunnel
      • Provisioning server: (PXE, TFTP, NFS …

CSR ideas

Work improvements

NFR

  • Javascript single page application
    • JS GUI
  • Retargettable back-end:
    • Local
    • Remote
    • Synchronization utility
  • Multi-user (authentication?)
  • Output Excel
  • Output changes

FR

  • requirements
  • roadmap objects
    • release time lines
    • indicators
    • descriptive text
  • Meta data
    • attributes (i.e owner, reviewers, etc)
    • versioning
  • Milestone data
  • Detail data
    • release details
    • line items

OpenShift notes

THIS IS FOR ARCHIVAL PURPOSES. THIS IS OUT-OF-DATE

backup OpenShift

openshift getenv(USER) from OpenShift php
ssh to {user}@{app-domain} gear snapshot  > file

Run gear app

OpenShift migration further notes

Encrypt a file using a supplied password :

$ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.txt -out file.txt.enc -k …

Chrome Kerberos Authentication

To config chrome to use kerberos authentication you need to start the application the following parameter:

  • auth-server-whitelist - Allowed FQDN - Set the FQDN of the IdP Server. Example: chrome --auth-server-whitelist="*aai-logon.domain-a.com"

  • auth-negotiate-delegate-whitelist - For which FQDN credential delegation will be allowed.

References:

My Must Have Android Apps

This is a list of my favorite Android Apps:

Essentials

  • Barcode Scanner - Play Store F-Droid
  • Ghost Commander - F-Droid
  • F-Droid Alternative Application Manager. Usually Open source stuff with significantly less crap ware and ads.

Productivity