Use CUPS to print IPP from Android

Config management: rolling back

Config management: microcode

Using OSC52 to enable remote cut and paste

Config management ideas

Dashboard generator for Grafana

Create custom ASCII art for your /etc/motd

How to create Debian package from nvim source

gitops provisioning

List of action to undertake to install xml2rfc as a Debian package

My Terminal Setup

Using metallb to create an LB with ARP

Setup monitoring with Prometheus and Caddy

Monitoring with Prometheus over SSH

A lean one-line prompt for ZSH

When I upgraded my Ubuntu 14.04 to use kernel 4.0 (and now kernel 4.1) it apparently got a new feature: it would wake up from suspend in the middle of the day…

Building a true static binary with Go by using the builtin resolver written in Go.

Alpine Linux is a super small Linux distribution which targets Docker. I want this as a base image for SkyDNS on my Raspberry Pi, running HypriotOS].

clustering with Raspberry Pis.

setxkbcomp howto

Using vim –servername feature for fun and profit

How to fix grub_term_highlight_color

Use i3 comfortable

Compile kernels using make-kpkg

Assorted notes for getting Linux up and running on a Macbook Air (2013)

… or any other document format for that matter. I thought it might be nice to have some sort of split window view in that allows you to edit a Pandoc file on the left and see the generated I-D on the right (in vim, with no extra daemons and not relying on inotify). Turns out you can do that, though it is not optimal, but it works. The jury is still out if this works well enough to actually make it useful.

GNOME3 in the default install is unusable, not as bad as Unity, but bad. Luckily with some minor tweaking it can be made to work quite nicely. These are some assorted notes on how I got stuff working the way I like. From a fresh Ubuntu install, install GNOME3: sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment Then: Normal focus mode: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences focus-mode 'sloppy' gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences auto-raise false Extensions: Caffeine - disable screensaver manually Frippery Move Clock Media player indicator Remove Accessibility Remove Panel App Menu Status Area Horizontal Spaces - reduces space used Weather - nice weather applet Windows Alt Tab (from: tglman, there are multiple) - alt-tab sanity Workspace Grid (from: mathematical.

I was wondering how to make my touchpad settings permanent in Ubuntu. I could find a few pointers on the net, like: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2011/11/06/persistent-touchpad-configuration-in-ubuntu-11-10/ http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1538147.html But sometimes it makes sense to look at your own system’s documentation: % cd /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d % head 50-synaptics.conf # Example xorg.conf.d snippet that assigns the touchpad driver # to all touchpads. See xorg.conf.d(5) for more information on # InputClass. # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, your distribution will likely overwrite # it when updating.

We all know this comic: And now in zsh! With the following snippet all commands that are started with an uppercase word will be prefixed with sudo and then executed. So MAKE me a sandwich, becomes sudo make me a sandwich. accept-line() { local B B=(${=BUFFER}) if [[ "$B[1]" != [A-Z]* ]]; then zle .accept-line return fi if [[ $B[1] != "" && $B[1] == $B[1]:u ]]; then BUFFER="sudo $B[1]:l $B[2,-1]" fi zle .

I like Vim, so I try to use it at many places. Like in my shell (set -o vi), and when writing and coding. After some Googling I found that Vim can also be used as a MANPAGER. But there is one nagging issue. To quit viewing the manual page you have to type ‘:q’, which is one keystroke more then when using less as your MANPAGER… Needless to say: this is unacceptable.