I’ve been getting “Property Spam” recently with subject lines like “A showcase of great properties on the Costa del Sol” or “Achieve high rental yields in an up-and-coming UK city”. These are sent to addresses that have never signed up to any mailing list (but have been sent spam in the past and would be …
2 scripts I’ve written to monitor Linux system performance: check_pressure & check_meminfo
Some extensions I use: dash-to-panel (as dash-to-dock no longer behaves reliably for me) frippery move clock GSconnect mailnag TopIcons Plus Workspace Buttons
Presumably as the old kernel version doesn’t support the capabilities. A quick fix is to downgrade to the old 2.6.9 version here. Bear in mind the risks of running an older version that won’t get security patches etc.
The setting you’re looking for is listed under “Window manager tweaks”. XFCE menu Settings Window Manager Tweaks Focus “When a window raises itself” “Do nothing” From StackExchange
Bloom is a REST API caching middleware, acting as a reverse proxy between your load balancers and your REST API workers.It is completely agnostic of your API implementation, and requires minimal changes to your existing API code to work.Bloom relies on redis, configured as a cache to store cached data. It is built in Rust …
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Peaclock uses C++17, this requires us to go through some hoops. sudo apt install clang-7 llvm-7-dev git clone https://github.com/octobanana/peaclock.git cd peaclock export CC=/usr/bin/clang-7 export CXX=/usr/bin/clang++-7 find . -type f -exec sed -i -e \ ‘s#std::filesystem#std::experimental::filesystem#g’ {} \; find . -type f -exec sed -i -e \ ‘s#<filesystem>#<experimental/filesystem>#g’ {} \; find . -type f -exec sed …
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Following these instructions to install & configure fonts – it makes applications & web pages look a lot better in Fedora.
If you are getting “No Authenticators Available” error, ensure libsasl2-2 & libsasl2-modules-db are installed.
I recently ordered an Orange Pi 3. Why an OPi3 rather than a Raspberry Pi? Because: Onboard storage (eMMC is faster & more reliable than an SD card) Faster GBit networking USB3 However it is obviously less mainstream. I bought it from AliExpress with a case (& fan / heatsinks) & a PSU (although it …