PulseAudio hints and tricks
PulseAudio is nowadays the default sound system in many Linux distributions. It lets you do a number of useful things. PulseAudio comes with a handy command line utility pacmd to do a number of things. pacmd commands ...
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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: ...
Co-existing GLIBC binaries with Void-Linux MUSL edition
I am running void-linux at home with musl as the standard C library. While most things work well, there is a number of programs that do not and must be using glibc counterparts. To enable this I followed this guide here: Live switching Void Linux from glibc to musl. To set-up: ...
Docker on Alpine Linux
Alpine Linux Quick installation See wiki For Alpine Linux > 3.8 Un-comment community repo from /etc/apk/repositories apk add docker rc-update add docker boot ...
Alpine on OTC
These are just random thoughts nothing really was implemented. Alpine Linux image preparation: jq and other deps to /apks/x86_64 ...
3 Open Source Password Managers
Keep your data and accounts safe by using a secure open source password manager to store unique, complex passwords. Maintaining complex, unique passwords for each site and service you use is among the most common pieces of advice that security professionals provide to the public every year. Yet no matter how many times it is said, it seems like a week doesn't ...
How to encrypt linux partitions with LUKS
There are plenty of reasons why people would need to encrypt a partition. Whether they're rooted it in privacy, security, or confidentiality, setting up a basic encrypted partition on a Linux system is fairly easy. This is especially true when using LUKS, since its functionality is built directly into the kernel. Installing Cryptsetup ...
using cachefiles on an Linux NFS share
If you often mount and access a remote NFS share on your system, you will probably want to know how to improve NFS file access performance. One possibility is using file caching. In Linux, there is a caching filesystem called FS-Cache which enables file caching for network file systems such as NFS. FS-Cache is built into the Linux kernel 2.6.30 and higher. ...
Rollback with YUM History Command
From 2daygeek.com Server patching is one of the important task of Linux system administrator to make the system more stable and better performance. All the vendors used to release security/vulnerabilities patches very often, the affected package must be updated in order to limit any potential security risks. Yum (Yellowdog Update Modified) is RPM Package Management utility for CentOS and Red Hat systems, Yum history command allows administrator to rollback the system to a previous state but due to some limitations, rollbacks do not work in all situations, or The yum command may simply do nothing, or it may remove packages you do not expect. I advise you to take a full system backup prior to performing any update/upgrade is always recommended, and yum history is NOT meant to replace systems backups. This will help you to restore the system to previous state at any point of time. n some cases, the hosted applications might not work properly or through some error due to recent patch updates (It could be some library incompatibility or package upgrade), what will be the solution in this case? Get in touch with App Dev team and figure it out an issue creating library' and packages then do the rollback with help of yum history command. ...
Centos Install notes
Set-up local.repo yum installs: nfs-utils autofs @x11 @xfce ...
Telegram
Telegram is a messenger designed to overcome the limitations of other messengers like WhatsApp or similar ones. It is different and better than other messengers on more than one level. A few of the important features that make it stand out among other messengers are: ...
CyberWorld 2017.1
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editor to replace emacs
At the end, I switched to geany GUI TextAdept Bluefish Editor editra ...
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Programming 2016
Programming 2016 GWT and GWT on Mobile and Java servlets Generate Excel http://www.gwtproject.org/overview.html ...
Deploying Kerberos based SSO
This article goes over how to implement Single-Sign-On on Linux. It goes over the integration around the Kerberos service and the applications, like for example FireFox. Pre-requisites ...
Kerberos Client
This simple mini how-to goes over the configuration of a linux system so it can use a Kerberos Realm server for authentication. Make sure you have the pam_krb5 rpm files installed. You can check this by running the rpm -qa | grep pam command and seeing whether the pam_krb5 rpm files are listed. If they aren't, you can typically download them in an update of the Linux or Unix operating system that you are running. ...
HP Envy 4504 Set-up
I bought a HP Envy 4504. Overall I am happy with it. This is how I configure it so I can use with Linux. This mini howto applies to ArchLinux, void linux and Centos/RedHat distributions. Installation Archlinux: cups, hplip, python2, sane ...
dev notes 2014
Replacment for Make and Autoconf: MakeMe (If you don't have root but have Android 4+ you can use the command-line program adb from the Android SDK platform tools to make backups via a desktop computer) chromebook ides ...
Resizing a Linux RAID
It is possible to migrate the whole array to larger drives (e.g. 250 GB to 1 TB) by replacing one by one. In the end the number of devices will be the same, the data will remain intact, and you will have more space available to you. Extending an existing RAID array In order to increase the usable size of the array, you must increase ...