Some geek stuff, some not so geek stuff.
Create this file (be sure to set chmod +x on it) /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-wlan-disable Here is what should be in the file: #!/bin/bash wired_interfaces=”en.*|eth.*” if [[ “$1” =~ $wired_interfaces ]]; then case… Continue Reading
I wanted to move some coins around with the recent Bitcoin Cash hard fork and needed to decrypt my private keys from my android wallet. After trying to mess… Continue Reading
So, I’m building a new desktop and thought I’d drop my shopping list here…. Intel – Core i5-7600 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor – $209 Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo RR-212E-20PK-R2 120 mm… Continue Reading
usbguard is a project that prevents authorized USB devices from connecting to your Linux system. So, here’s my first stab at creating a public PPA for Ubuntu 16.04: USBguard PPA… Continue Reading
Inspired by this post, NFA Fun Data by state, and feeling that Utah was underrepresented, I crunched some per-capita numbers using the census estimated populations for 2014. Here are the… Continue Reading
baloo is a performance killer in Kubuntu so I wanted it off. Here’s how: Edit $HOME/.kde/share/config/baloofilerc Change the following line (or add it if it’s not there): Indexing-Enabled=false
Error: An error occurred while trying to import the certificate /path/to/cert.p12: Decryption failed Fix: import it from the command line with these two commands: openssl pkcs12 -in cert.p12 | gpgsm… Continue Reading
Linux has protections in place to prevent you from running shell scripts with root permissions that have the setuid bit set. But there’s a way to work around that. (yay!… Continue Reading
Error (or undesired behavior, in this case): Out of Memory killer kills mysqld when memory runs low. I’d rather have it kill apache processes instead. Fix: specifically exclude OOM from… Continue Reading