Session ID guidelines
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Auto-insert snippet for python emacs
A small skeleton you can put into your python emacs editing session: ;; insert python skeleton with auto-insert (eval-after-load ‘autoinsert ‘(define-auto-insert ‘(“\\.\\py\\'” . “python skeleton”) ‘(“” “#!/usr/bin/env python” \n “# ” (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name)) \n \n “def main():” \n “pass” \n \n “if __name__ == ‘__main__’:” \n “main()” \n \n)))
Rooting your Gemini PDA
I recently got a Gemini PDA (WiFi). To run rooted Android and Linux (dual boot) I did the following: Followed the details here. Downloaded & unzipped Windows Flashing Tool Downloaded & installed Windows Drivers Chose my Partition setup here then downloaded Scatter File Base Firmware (ie Android) Linux Firmware Unzipped both firmwares into a dir …
Arch Linux on aarch64 gpg keys
If you have an issue with gpg verification of packages the instructions are slightly different to recover as the signing keys are different: pacman-key –init pacman-key –populate archlinuxarm This is if you get errors like: error: mutt: signature from “Arch Linux ARM Build System <builder@archlinuxarm.org>” is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mutt-1.10.0-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or …
GrafX2 – Deluxe Paint for Linux
GrafX2 is a bitmap paint program inspired by the Amiga programs ​Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. Specialized in 256-color drawing, it includes a very large number of tools and effects that make it particularly suitable for pixel art, game graphics, and generally any detailed graphics painted with a mouse.
Logwatch on SystemD logs in RHEL/Centos 7
Modern versions of logwatch support journalctl logs, to enable this in Centos / RHEL 7 just install the FC27 RPM (dependencies are minimal) and configure like so.
Build emacs 25 rpm for redhat / centos 7
This is for the console only (no graphical xwindows) version. Installs into /opt/emacs253 so can run side-by-side with system emacs. # Download emacs tarball & untar ./configure –prefix=/opt/emacs253 –with-gif=no –with-tiff=no –with-x-toolkit=no \ –with-xpm=no –with-jpeg=no –with-png=no # install any dependencies & build make make DESTDIR=/tmp/emacs install # Install fpm (gem install fpm) to build package fpm …
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Repro-Now – Reproduce web sessions
This Chrome extension allows you to create video files of web sessions (eg to show exploits, problems with sites, etc): https://repro-now.com/ It also stores the network traffic in the mkv file.
Ascii charting
Was jealous that monodraw is only available for mac but jave is cross-platform (java) and pretty good. Also a mention for the related tool ditaa which is also very cool.
gsconnect – native kdeconnect for gnome
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1319/gsconnect/ is a fantastic implementation of kdeconnect which allows you interface with your android phone from your linux desktop. I had some issues configuring it on Fedora as I was previously using kdeconnectd so gsconnect defaulted to the next available port (1717). To resolve this I removed kdeconnectd (yum remove), uninstalled gsconnect (rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/gsconnect@andyholmes.github.io), …
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