Blackthorne
Yet another game from the 90’s that I wanted to tick off as done. Here are a few screenshots:
Centos 7 – bridge for KVM
I got a machine on which I wanted to try Centos 7 and KVM virtualization. As usual, I had to search for how to do a network bridge as it’s been quite long since I did it last time (on …
Systemd problem
At home, I’ve been using rolling release of Debian for my desktop for quite some time. The good thing about it is that years go by and you need not worry about the end of life of this or that …
Hardware repairs
I’ve been tinkering with my computers ever since the days of ZX Spectrum, more or less. In the last eight years or so, however, people would come to me with their broken laptops and computers every now and then. It …
Gettext translations
Gettext is a great way to localize and internationalize (simply put, to translate) your (web)applications. It’s especially useful when you’re building a multi-language application because you can separate the code from the translation process effectively. all strings that need to …
Lands of Lore (again)
Some time ago, I started playing Lands of Lore. Then I took a short break (for about five years 🙂 ) and now I happened to stumble across the saved games so I decided to go on again this Xmas. …
Skype in Docker
Although jabber is my preferred IM protocol, sometimes I have to communicate with people who, for some reason, only use Skype. On Debian, that can be quite a problem, supposing you are not particularly keen on weed infestation of your …
Yii CRUD generator and plural forms
Yii framework has a really nice CRUD generator that can speed up building back-end applications, which tend to be rather similar and therefore repetitive. If you prepare reasonable taxonomy of the underlying database tables, it also manages the page headers …
Check the WordPress version of several sites at once
I’ve got this blog of mine where I log in every now and then, so whenever there is a new version of WordPress, I see the update reminder message. There is, however, over a dozen other blogs under my wings …
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AWK – print no newline
Using awk to display information, the print function, by default, adds newline after each iteration. I wanted to copy the results and use them as an actual array in a program and preferred to have them all on one line, …