Open-Source and related Stuff
I finally bit the bullet and installed OpenWRT on my Linksys WRT1900ACS (v2) router. The main reason was the stupid (and incredibly insecure) guest network implementation that the router came with. Despite supplying a password in the admin interface, the…
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Having a Raspberry Pi that functions as a backup device for laptops and mobile devices, large external hard drives are great. Only one drawback: they don’t ever spin down, potentially wearing them out before they should. Looking around for open-source…
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When working from home, due to COVID-19, you do have the luxury of listening to music of your own choice. And it doesn’t have to be via paid services like last.fm or Spotify. No, you can use good old fashioned…
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Last week, I accidentally came across the debian-maven-plugin (by Wouter Bosma) on sourceforge.net: https://sourceforge.net/projects/debian-maven/ Since most of my projects are Maven based, I thought this would be great to add to the build process. At the moment, I usually only…
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I just updated my Firefox to 66.0.3 on my Linux Mint 18.3 and all of a sudden, all my installed plugins were disabled (eg uBlock). Turns out that the release was buggy and they are working on a fix. In…
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I’ve been a huge fan of the Hamster Time Tracking tool. And that for years! It made tracking my time spent on various commercial projects a breeze. However, this project is undergoing a major refactoring and is no longer available…
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Came across the following answer on askubuntu, explaining how to get Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 16.04: https://askubuntu.com/questions/865554/how-do-i-install-python-3-6-using-apt-get#865569 Which involves basically these steps: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install python3.6 However, for compiling packages through pip, you also…
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Just came across this post on Tips in Ubuntu, on how to install Oracle Java via a ppa on Ubuntu (-based) systems: Install Oracle Java 8 / 9 in Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18
One problem that I always faced with the Raspberry Pi: I couldn’t figure out how to attach multiple hard drives to it and still boot from the right one. Thanks to the non-deterministic nature of the drives spinning up, /dev/sdaX…
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Here’s one for us old-fogies that don’t like the new fandangled behavior of scrollbars, moving to where you click instead of scrolling (drives me nuts when scrolling through posts). For GTK do the following: Create ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini add the following content…
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