Downloading envoy for linux
Looking to download the envoy proxy? Try here – but note it needs glibc 2.18, so no Centos 7.
Archive of posts tagged ubuntu
Access your UTM VM over ssh
Go to Network Section for the Guest & create a new Port Forward from guest port 22 to host port 22022 (or whatever port you have free) Save & start up the VM Open terminal and ssh to your local forwarded port
Empathy on Ubuntu 12.10 / 13.04 is enormous!
The contactlist on empathy has swollen and in the name of Gnome “advanced” preferences for a compact size have been removed! Not happy, moving back to Pidgin.
Unity Reboot Launcher To Quickly Reboot In A Different OS Updated For Ubuntu 12.10 And 13.04 ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
Unity Reboot is a custom Unity launcher that can be used to quickly reboot into a different OS / Linux distribution, useful for those who dual boot or triple boot or… it should work with any number of operating systems, including Windows, various Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora, etc.. This isn’t just for Unity …
Gnome 3 Tweaks and Extensions | 1N73RNET
Change touchpad delay after typing This has been super annoying because the default delay for the touchpad is 2 seconds! Here’s how to set it to whatever delay you want.First, turn off the “disable touchpad when typing setting” in your system settings and then open a terminal and enter the following command. syndaemon -d -K …
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Changing port for apt-key
If adding ubuntu repos is failing because you are behind a firewall and the gpg key cannot be downloaded, specify port 80 as below: apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 F3A662B57D580D3A2E98E5152A8E3034D018A4CE
apt-fast and Axel: Roughly 26x Faster apt-get Installations and Upgrades
The apt-fast script I have created is a little shellscript that increases the speed of apt-get by many times. You need to have the axel download accelerator installed, which is a simple, short process, but everything else is extremely straight forward. I started out downloading the upgrades for Kubuntu, at 32kb/s. Not terrible, but not …
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