Category: Linux
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FreedomPenguin…Out of the Box!
Beta launch of FreedomPenguin. Find my intro post. Please suggest topics you want my take on!
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Heard of Freedom Penguin?
Freedom Penguin is Matt Hartley’s soon to open blog project. I’ll be writing some posts there regularly. If you want to learn a bit more about computers each week, or to laugh, or to shake your head at me, please pop your email into the subscribe box on this post. Freedom…out of the box!
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See a new wallpaper after every suspend
My ubuntu 14.04 is getting crusty and I don’t think that Mate helped it out greatly, but I marginally like Mate better than XFCE. However, whenever my computer wakes from suspend, my wallpaper background image is all black and kinda messed up. So I read this example of making a suspend-resume hook. And here is…
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Happy People at LinuxFest Northwest 2015
I only had about 45 minutes to take a few pictures (and grab a beer) at LFNW after party. Other years I’ve had more time, more pictures. This is what I got.
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Anaconda has not really gotten better.
Consider the workflow: it does not ask you if you want to remove an old installation. It does not indicate that if you need to create LVM raid1 volumes, how you should do that. It does not offer any shortcuts on creating a mirrored LVM partitioning scheme. You get bullshit errors like ‘raid1 requires two…
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Mbuffer Trickery
Am rather disappointed that mbuffer isn’t shipped in CentOS 7. Easy enough to install, but seriously useful to have updated software in this day in age. Anyhow, to use mbuffer for a long transfer where an outgoing connection was the only option, I finally found a situation where I wanted to use a fifo. dmzhost$…
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My Terminal Prompt
Some of you might wet your pants in fear of this pictures. It is the anti-MAC. You bore me.
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Creating Stop Motion Video
For fun today, Jesse constructed a stop motion scene with legos and a hand-drawn backdrop. Meanwhile, I wrote an animation process. I wrote it as two scripts: one to resize input from my camera, the other to actually animate the pictures. My ImageMagick resize script is reasonably simple, and if you search for other animation…
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Grumpy thots on SELinux
I just spent an hour trying to get a Samba share running on Fedora 20. It used to not take that long, I’m familiar with how to get Samba running, how to create shares, and how to manage valid users and masks. But when it still doesn’t work? Well, what other thing do you do–you…
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