Improve the look of Fedora
Following these instructions to install & configure fonts – it makes applications & web pages look a lot better in Fedora.
Archive of entries posted by james
Want CRAM-MD5 & DIGEST-MD5 IMAP auth to work in mutt on Debian / Ubuntu?
If you are getting “No Authenticators Available” error, ensure libsasl2-2 & libsasl2-modules-db are installed.
Changes in RHEL 8
RHEL 8 changes sendmail deprecated!
Awesome Shell
A curated list of awesome command-line frameworks, toolkits, guides and gizmos.
Installing rust cargo packages on aarch64 armbian linux
Your /tmp partition (which is where the build will default to) probably doesn’t have enough room as it’s a 512mb tmpfs mount. Set CARGO_TARGET_DIR environment variable to a spacious directory
Orange Pi 3
I recently ordered an Orange Pi 3. Why an OPi3 rather than a Raspberry Pi? Because: Onboard storage (eMMC is faster & more reliable than an SD card) Faster GBit networking USB3 However it is obviously less mainstream. I bought it from AliExpress with a case (& fan / heatsinks) & a PSU (although it …
sitespeed.io
A great open source tool for measuring website performance Run in one line to get a report for your site: docker run –rm -v “$(pwd)”:/sitespeed.io sitespeedio/sitespeed.io:8.9.0 https://www.sitespeed.io/
Using pfsense / OpenVPN client access and can’t reach your internal LAN?
Remember to create a route from your internal LAN machines to your pfsense / OpenVPN network. ie if internal lan is 192.168.10.0/24, pfsense is on 192.168.10.3 & your OpenVPN client lan is 192.168.20.0/24, you’d want something like route add -net 192.168.20.0/24 gw 192.168.10.3
Minimalist Linux Desktop
Even though I’ve mostly converted to GNOME (on a fairly juicy machine at least), this article covers some interesting tools.
Disable fsync!
libeatmydata is a small LD_PRELOAD library designed to (transparently) disable fsync (and friends, like open(O_SYNC)). This has two side-effects: making software that writes data safely to disk a lot quicker and making this software no longer crash safe. DO NOT use libeatmydata on software where you care about what it stores. It’s called libEAT-MY-DATA for …