-
Archives
- August 2020
- April 2020
- June 2019
- November 2018
- September 2016
- February 2016
- December 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- May 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- August 2014
- June 2014
- April 2014
- February 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- June 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- May 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- May 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- September 2010
- July 2010
- May 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- September 2009
- July 2009
- May 2009
- January 2009
- November 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
-
Meta
Category Archives: Linux
Cutting the Azure Web Services Bill by 90%. HOWTO!
An organization for which I am a contractor had an annual Azure bill that totalled more than $100,000 per year. After re-provisioning, we reduced the annual bill to less than $13,000. Sounds good to you? Here are some tips. 1. … Continue reading
Posted in Linux
Leave a comment
Creating a new SSH key with ed25519 encryption
A while ago, I prepared notes about creating an SSH key for use with Gitlab (and other SSH-based servers). That guide, https://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/crmda_guides/34.gitlab/34.gitlab.pdf explains the basic ideas of SSH keys. Today I learned that when interacting with an SSH server, the … Continue reading
Posted in Linux
Leave a comment
Building R-devel on RedHat Linux 6
Warning: I’m 85% done with this, formatting is not right. I DO NOT want to type in the prompt in front of every command because then one cannot copy/paste directly. However, copying some output chunks picks up the dollar … Continue reading
Get out of fail2ban jail
Ever get locked out of your own computer because you tried the password too many times when you were, well, not paying attention? I found it tough to find how to unban myself and was pretty frustrated by the ambiguity … Continue reading
OpenBUGS-3.2.3 Linux Packages
I’m very sorry I stopped paying attention to the packaging on openbugs for a while. I stopped reading the gmail account because I hated their labeling system, but that account is where I’m registered in the OpenBUGS list. Oh, well. … Continue reading
Gambit packages updated
Linux packages for Gambit were built yesterday. All of these do install and I’m able to open the Gambit GUI and create a game. I compiled with no special arguments, these may not include all of the features you want. … Continue reading
Compiz, Multi-Head, Workspace Backgrounds
The approach described in the post earlier this week works well on single-head systems, but not when there are several monitors. Compiz handles these differently than XFCE4 or Gnome, causing some revision in the script. Since Compiz treats the combined … Continue reading
Success: compiz wallpapers changed via python script (Ubuntu 14.10 XFCE4)
I started using Linux because it had cool desktop features that made it fun and interesting. The compiz window manager was a highlight, but I stopped using it for a while because I could not make the dbus commands work … Continue reading
Swarm and Ubuntu 14.04: Package uploads
A couple of very pleasant students have been writing to ask for help on running some Swarm apps and yesterday I decided to rebuild some packages to try to smooth out the process. Here are the things I can remember. … Continue reading
Legal characters in file names
My email signature has my opinion: Today’s Advice: File names include letters, numbers, periods, dashes, and underscores. NEVER \ / ! * & ^ $ or “. And no spaces. Spaces are bad, they make everything inconvenient. I’m not a … Continue reading