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Make diacritics easy in Linux
Making an effort to use diacritics is always a good idea, but how can you make it easier in Linux?
Disable Nvidia GPU on the Thinkpad T490
The Lenovo ThinkPad T490 is a great laptop, but it comes with some discrete GPU challenges.
Bring Back Fedora's Beefy Miracle boot splash
Fedora 17’s code name was Beefy Miracle and it had a great mascot. You can see it at boot time with a few quick changes.
Thinkpad T490 Fedora install tips
My new T490 with a 10th generation Intel CPU and a discrete NVIDIA MX250 has arrived! Installing Linux creates some interesting challenges.
Monitoring OpenShift cron jobs
Openshift (and Kubernetes) allow you to run jobs on schedule, but these jobs can fail from time to time. You can monitor them from bash!
Monitor CyberPower UPS wattage
Monitor the power consumption of your CyberPower UPS and display the live output in your Linux desktop’s status bar.
Install Chromium with VAAPI on Fedora 30
Lower your CPU usage and increase battery life when you watch certain videos by using Chromium with VAAPI support.
Customize GNOME from i3
All of your GNOME and gtk applications are configured in i3 with a few simple tricks.
Deploy monit in OpenShift
Monit is a tried-and-true monitoring daemon that is easy to deploy. Add it to OpenShift to make monitoring even easier.
Get faster GitLab runners with a ramdisk
Many cloud providers give you lots of memory with each instance and you can speed up tests and builds by using a ramdisk.
buildah error: vfs driver does not support overlay.mountopt options
Buildah and podman work well with the vfs storage driver, but the default mount options can cause problems.
Fedora 30 on Google Compute Engine
Fedora 30 is a great Linux distribution for cloud platforms, but it needs a little work to perform well on Google Compute Engine.
Ham Radio FAQ
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Texas Linux Fest 2019 Recap
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Build containers in GitLab CI with buildah
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Inspecting OpenShift cgroups from inside the pod
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Get a /56 from Spectrum using wide-dhcpv6
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Stop audio pops on Intel HD Audio
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Automatic floating windows in i3
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DevConf.CZ 2019 Recap
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Using the pressure stall information interface in kernel 4.20
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Make alt-arrow keys work with terminator and weechat
As I make the move from the world of GNOME to i3, I found myself digging deeper into the terminator preferences to make it work more like gnome-terminal. ...
Install testing kernels in Fedora
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Ensuring keepalived starts after the network is ready
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Troubleshooting CyberPower PowerPanel issues in Linux
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Apply the STIG to even more operating systems with ansible-hardening
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Customize LDAP autocompletion format in Thunderbird
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Enable AppArmor on a Debian Jessie cloud image
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OpenStack-Ansible networking on CentOS 7 with systemd-networkd
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RHEL 7 STIG v1 updates for openstack-ansible-security
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ICC color profile for Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 4th generation
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Power 8 to the people
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Setting up a telnet handler for OpenStack Zuul CI jobs in GNOME 3
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Bring back two and three finger taps in Fedora 24
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Lessons learned: Five years of colocation
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Mouse cursor disappears in GNOME 3
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Recovering deleted Chrome bookmarks on Linux
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First thoughts: Linux on the Supermicro 5028D-TN4T
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Understanding systemd’s predictable network device names
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Research Paper: Securing Linux Containers
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Book Review: Linux Kernel Development
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Tweetdeck’s Chrome notifications stopped working
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Run virsh and access libvirt as a regular user
Libvirt is a handy way to manage containers and virtual machines on various systems. On most distributions, you can only access the libvirt daemon via the root user by default. I’d rather use a regular non-root user to access libvirt and limit that access via groups. ...
Share a wireless connection via ethernet in GNOME 3.14
There are some situations where you want to do the opposite of creating a wireless hotspot and you want to share a wireless connection to an ethernet connection. For example, if you’re at a hotel that offers only WiFi internet access, you could share that connection to an ethernet switch and plug in more devices. Also, you could get online with your wireless connection and create a small NAT network to test a network device without mangling your home network. ...
Xerox ColorQube 9302 and Linux
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Lessons learned from a kernel bisection
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Using ZoneMinder with a Logitech C270 webcam
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Linux support for the Dell XPS 13 9343 (2015 model)
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Try out LXC with an Ansible playbook
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