Settings for Linux client for DD-WRT PPTP VPN
MSCHAPv2 selected just out of shot
Archive of posts filed under the linux category.
mkcd – create and cd into directory
Make a directory & cd into it function mkcd () { mkdir -p “$@” && eval cd “\”\$$#\””; } from twitter
Gnome 3.30 on Arch Linux not ready for use
It seems that the version of Gnome 3.30 on Arch is so unstable with such poor plugin support (despite what the Gnome developers think, tray icons are still required, Gnome is not the only DE available) that I strongly recommend against using it for now. I’ve gone back to the comforting embrace of XFCE. Maybe …
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Fix TopIcons Plus on Gnome 3.30
sed -i ‘s#tray.manage_screen(global.screen, Main.panel.actor)#tray.manage_screen(Main.panel.actor)#’ ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/TopIcons@phocean.net/extension.js
check_multi_url – Check 100s of URLs asynchronously
A new nagios check I’ve written for checking a lot of URLs quickly: check_multi_url.
Rebuild nvidia modules for new kernel
sudo dkms autoinstall
Stop doing ps -ef | grep process
Do pgrep -a process instead Update: seems like older pgrep (such as that which comes with RHEL6) doesn’t support this, you can do pgrep -l instead though.
Black screen with Nvidia on Fedora after 4.18 kernel upgrade?
I removed Plymouth – it’s pointless anyway. yum remove plymouth* dracut –force reboot Also took the opportunity to move to the negativo17 nvidia repo.
Wildcards in ssh_config
I’ve only just discovered you can have wildcards in your hosts in ssh_config, ie Host db* User dbman Host www* User wwwadmin
“changing the system requirements for the Dropbox desktop app for Linux”
If you’ve recently received a mail from Dropbox “[Action required] We’re updating Linux system requirements” and will be getting support discontinued due to running an old version of glibc, you probably want to move to Dropbox containerized via Docker. This will affect you if you run Centos / RHEL 6 or 7. Update: this docker …
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