Void Linux review - A new hope
Distrowatch had an interesting “feature story” on Void Linux last year that caught my attention. Though the review painted a rather bleak image of the distribution, it still came through as an original project with some exiting features.
Is Mr. Robot at the Chaos Communication Congress?
How to open a magnet link with the Chrome browser on GNU/Linux
Prerequisites: xdg-utils
When clicking a magnet link, the Chrome (or Chromium) browser will launch an external application to handle the link (remember it’s a URI, hence the external protocol request message). Anyhow, if your system doesn’t have an application associated with magnet links, then the result will be no action at all.
Slackware Linux is moving to eudev
Chrome Web Store – Your new one stop shop for malware and spam
While installing some apps and extensions from the Chrome web store I noticed that there were a few well known products delivered by developers totally unknown to me (and Google search). LastPass, AVG AntiVirus, Snapchat, Viber and others were available sporting their trademark name and logo, but from publishers without any affiliation with the actual brand.
WordPress on Raspberry Pi 2, six months down the road
So the last report from my Slackware based RPi2 hosting project ended on a cliffhanger (pun intended), as I was just recovering after suffering data corruption, the occasional kernel panic and random errors. Suspecting the instability might be caused by my overly optimistic approach to overclocking and overvolting, I decided to turn things down a few notches.
How to split a wallpaper for multiple monitors on GNU/Linux
So I wanted to split a 3840×1080 wallpaper in two halves for my dual monitor based KDE 4.10.5 setup. Obviously there are several applications that would do the job, but why bother when ImageMagick can do it with a one-liner. The “magick” is achieved by using a geometry argument:
What is the latest Skype for Business User-Agent string?
When using a client other than Skype for Business (formerly known as Lync) to connect with your Office 365 account, you’ll need to provide the Microsoft Lync servers with a user-agent string they recognize as an “acceptable” client. The reasoning behind this is surely to give you the best possible experience and not at all to lock out other messaging clients.
How to add failed logins from Logwatch as firewall rules using Iptables
Just for the record: collecting failed logins from Logwatch and feeding them to the firewall is by no means a viable strategy against brute force attacks or other intrusion attempts. There are better means to mitigate these kind of security concerns in real time.
How to fix connectivity issues with the Asus USB-N13 Wireless Adapter on Windows 10
The Windows Update service will provide you with drivers for the Asus USB-N13 adapter, but in my experience, none of these drivers function reliably. They all suffer from the “limited connection disease” thus forcing me to reattach the dongle and play an endless game of connect and disconnect.
Arch Linux - A stop job is running for MariaDB database server
The message in question as shown below made its appearance while I was trying to shut down my laptop. The job went on for about a minute before completing its task.
BlueOnyx 5107R - make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
OTRS backup.pl - Error 2020: Got packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet bytes
Dump MySQL rdbms … mysqldump: Error 2020: Got packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes when dumping table ‘article_plain’ at row: 8704 … failed
Arch Linux - Failed to start Verify integrity of password and group files
The shadow.service unit reported that it had failed and threw the following error message: “user ‘colord’: directory ‘/var/lib/colord’ does not exist”. I had no recollection of housing such a user, but by issuing the command below there was hard proof (image to the right) that colord was indeed a homeless user on my system, and her home was supposed to have been /var/lib/colord.