Category: sysadmin
Odroid Sensors
Not long ago I bought an Odroid ARM based mini PC, and among many issues, turned out that the system uses some rather strange scheme for controlling the fan speed....
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...