Docker breaks KVM Bridge – Fixed!
I recently enabled docker on my desktop PC running Ubuntu 20.04LTS … and it ended up breaking Bridged Networking on my VirtManager/KVM Virtual Machines (NAT still works). It turns out that (1) docker...
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A command-line client for evernote
A command-line client for evernote.I’m sure someday I’ll find a killer use for it. LINK: Geeknote – Evernote console client for Linux, FreeBSD, OS X This post was originally published publicly on Google+ at...
Hooked up my new toys!
Hooked up my new toys!One of my not quite work related things to do for 2015 is to set up and get into flight sims again. So I got a set of flight yoke...
Creative Destruction – The Home Server
*Creative Destruction: The Home Server is dead! Long Live the Home Server!*I recently had bad sectors on two disks of a RAID5 array on my home server. With a lot of hacking of “mdadm”...
Viewing GCC built-in #defines
Ever wondered what all those pre #defined preprocessor constants expand to? Execute the following: gcc -dM -E – < /dev/null|sort Sample output from Ubuntu 13.10 (gcc 4.8.1): shahada@pc-shahada:/usr/include$ gcc -dM -E – < /dev/null...
Woo! This worked for me on 14.04
Woo! This worked for me on 14.04. It needed the libnss patch that the previous hacks did not mention. And of course whatever geo-location hacks that you previously needed.No more running silverlight under WINE!...
So it was Saturday night and there was an Ubuntu Update …
So it was Saturday night and there was an Ubuntu update that required a system reboot, and I thought what the heck I might as well power off my PC, since I wasn’t likely...
Bought this. Seems to work ok on Ubuntu
Bought this. Seems to work ok on Ubuntu 14.04. No hope of being productive for the rest of the month. LINK: Sid Meier`s Civilization V Game Available On Steam For Linux This post was...
How To Make scanned PDFs searchable (OCR) using pdfocr
How To: Make scanned PDFs searchable (OCR) using pdfocrThis is a very useful tip, especially if you are storing scanned PDFs inside Google Drive — it allows you to search across all your Google...
Bye-Bye Gnome Shell
Bye-Bye Gnome Shell I thought I had pretty much settled myself into the “ideal” desktop … Gnome-Shell on Ubuntu with a whole load of extensions (http://goo.gl/LHLOHt) to tweak it into working exactly how I...
