Category: sysadmin
List VirtualBox VM’s shared folders
In my current job we work heavilly with kubernetes clusters, working on a minikube master. As part of out internal toolkit for managing these, I needed to get a full...
HTTPS on localhost
The usage of https is the norm now, and so more and more we’ll need to use HTTPS even for local development. So after some mixed results – this guide...
How to find which program uses hotkey with xdotool
So, recently I discovered that the “generate” functionality of my IDE (alt+Insert) has been hijacked by another program. Or to be precise – when I press this combination – nothing...
The Hal Paradox
This has probably happened to everyone, not just in IT – when you start working on one thing, find another problem, which leads to another, and in four hours you’re...
Allow apache access to user’s folders
Usually I prefer using a virtual machine for this type of work, but with the recent projects I work on, it’s better to have apache installed on the machine I...
Linux debugging cheat sheet
I gotta admit – I “stole” this from nixCraft. But it’s so brilliant, I just need to share/keep it.
BASH Red prompt
2022 edit – this needs revisiting – do not repeat! The code bellow breaks the prompt!OK, so this is mainly for personal use. When logging via SSH to a certain...
Bookmark for switching URL
When developing multiple similar sites, I often stumble upon the case, when I want to open a specific link on different domain. Sometimes the same site/URL on local, staging, testing,...
Change the name of the interface in Ubuntu
I really hate the way Ubuntu names the interfaces. To someone who only clicks – it might not matter, but for someone like me, who lives by the ideal “Real...
Connect to your android phone and copy files under Linux
OK, so MTP is a protocol, that’s implemented in Linux just as good as my Tennis skills. I’ve never played tennis. So usually it’s a tedious job to find some...