Something that I have a hard time with, every time that I start up a new distro, is getting my xbox controller working without a cable. It is never easy, and at no point does it seem like something any of the distros I frequent will fix "out of the …
I have been having issues with one of my BTRFS pools on Unraid, it keeps locking up and then becoming unmountable.
I think I may know the root cause, but not sure yet.
The last time that this happened I had to use --repair, but it doesn't quite work through …
First off, may I say this is dumb. This has been an issue for at least 4 years in the Linux community and still, to this day, the solution is to fix it manually.
To start, my install uses NetworkManager which has a rudimentary GUI, and since this has been …
While I still use LaTeX and Sphinx for my report writing I still needed a replacement for Adobe InDesign. Scribus fits the bill perfectly.
I always have to re-search how to do this, so this time I think I will just write a quick note for the steps so if I have to do it again from scratch I will know what I have to do.
I have started hashing the official files that I issue to clients, but I keep forgetting how to do it with powershell, so this is for future me.
The way I do it is to navigate to the folder with the file(s) to hash and then use the command …
If you are self-hosting apps on your local network, that you also want to access from the external world, like I do with my webarchive then you may have challenges getting your DNS to work properly.
One way to do this is to host your own DNS server and point …
I pulled out my travel router to do some testing, not traveling, today and noticed that the firmware hasn't been updated since my last work trip in 2020.
However, it kept failing, so that's what this note is for, to remind me how to make it work if I have …
Somethimes I don't use WSL on my main machine for long periods of time and I forget the user password, so I've done this more than once.
Open a command prompt as administrator.
Get the Name of the WSL installation
wsl --list --verbose
Its just:
sphinx-quickstart
Its really easy, and if you (me) needs the link its right on the Sphinx site here.