Certificate Authorities
For home users there is not much use for running you own Certificate Authority (CA), and with availability of Letsencrypt and the plethora of ACME libraries setting TLS encryption is quite straight forward. ...
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More Python GUI programming
Using threads with Python and Tkinter Impelementation using queue.Queue Key Components Why Use Threads and Queues? ...
Using Excel files from Python
Intro XlsxWriter openpyxl xlwings pywin32 ...
AdGuard Home
How does AdGuard Home compare to traditional ad blockers Known limitations Installation Configuration Reverse Proxy ...
Cinnamon Keyboard shortcuts
To familiarize with the Cinnamon desktop, here is a list of its shortcuts: Function ...
Saving Cinnamon customizations
When I switched Desktop Environments towards Cinnamon, I wanted to save configuration settings so I could restore them later if I moved to a different PC. Pre-requisites: We need the following packages ...
Linux booting Linux
Introduction Backing up Installing Refind Custom Linux ...
Baremetal backup
Preparation Disabling BitLocker Get Clonezilla ...
tcpdump snippets
List interfaces GUI Capture file rotation stftime codes ...
Python development tips 2024
Local install packages Better debugging Built-in exceptions Adding site specific customizations Constants ...
Tweaking HDMI dummies
Prepare EDID blob Modify Kernel command line Update initramfs Reboot Post boot EDID ...
Linux Serial Consoles
Intro Hardware Null modem Cisco style ports ...
UEFI boot on Raspberry PI
Introduction Prepare SD card Copy UEFI UEFI boot Adding grub ...
OpenTofu
Introduction Origins Why use OpenTofu Using OpenTofu ...
Python GUI
After looking a multiple options of GUI programming under python I eventually settled for tkinter. The main reason was that tkinter is very ubiquitous and initially though the learning curve wuld have shorter as I was very used to GUI programming using TCL/TK. Turned out that what I known TCL/TK did not translate ...
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 ...
Python Development 2023
Python development on Windows Distributing Python scripts as single EXE or Directory Installing netifaces on Windows Documentation generation ...
DVTM
The other day I found dvtm. Looking at it, it looks very nice. It appeals to me because I am particularly fond of text user interfaces. At the end I choose not to use it because: ...
Replacing emacs...
So after over 30 years of using GNU emacs I have switched to a more modern options. So I am using: Geany: For use in a Window environment (both X11 and MSWIN) micro: For command line use ...
Linux HDMI hotplug
Now in 2024 this is usually no longer needed. A more current solution is: https://github.com/phillipberndt/autorandr The point of this article is to document I workaround that I came ...
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