Observium and SNMPv3
Some tasks you find yourself doing only once in a while, so they never stick in your memory for too long. Adding a new device to Observium (a great monitoring tool), and that device being off the premises, so it’s …
Broken MATE panel
Following an upgrade in Debian Jessie/testing, I was left with no panels at all after logging into the MATE desktop. Running dpkg -s mate-desktop, I saw that MATE had been changed to 1.8 from the previous 1.6 version. My first …
Git – show all files modified between two commits
It’s always best to commit your work only once it’s done. Sometimes the changes span over days or weeks and this is where stashing comes useful. Sometimes, however, I start work at the office and then I want to go …
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GPG encrypted files for Amazon Glacier storage
I am no big fan of cloud solutions, mainly because I don’t like to entrust my data to people I don’t know. But like with any other tool, the cloud is still just a tool and it really depends on …
Delete huge amount of files in a directory
I had this peculiar problem – one of my virtual hosts had a custom tmp directory where sessions were stored and not deleted for a long time. When I found out, the number of files in there already posed a …
Conky and MATE problem
I found this lovely Conky script that I wanted to use for my MATE desktop. conky -c .conky/conkyrc_orange However, it wouldn’t start automatically after logging in, see: user@machine:~$ cat .config/autostart/conky.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=conky -c /home/user/.conky/conkyrc_orange Hidden=false X-MATE-Autostart-enabled=true Name[en_US]=conky Name=conky …
Daggerfall
…some 18 years later.
Fixed background and animation
I ran into a peculiar problem while designing a website for my client. They had professional photos taken and I liked them very much, so I decided I would use them as a fixed background that would stretch to the …
Change the default crontab editor to vim
If you need to change the editor that opens the crontab configuration, this is the way: env EDITOR=vim crontab -e
Encrypt partition with dm-crypt
Ever wnated to have your external disk or USB stick encrypted? This is a way to get there on a Debian-based system using dm-crypt and LUKS. First, make sure dm-crypt module is loaded (see if /dev/mapper/ is present), and if …