vpn settings
MSCHAPv2 selected just out of shot
Settings for Linux client for DD-WRT PPTP VPN
mkcd – create and cd into directory
Make a directory & cd into it
function mkcd () { mkdir -p "$@" && eval cd "\"\$$#\""; }
from twitter
Moving from Feedly
Got tired of a few shortcomings with Feedly (inability to add feed directly from firefox or to have private RSS feeds), so have migrated to a self-hosted tt-rss install.
Components:
- VPS from Host-US ($15 / year) running Centos 7
- tt-rss installation
- tt-rss feedly plugin (some 3rd party apps supporting syncing to this)
- tt-rss app for android
- tt-rss feedly (dark) theme
Installation isn’t straightforward for the novice: it’s an nginx (LetsEncrypt cert) / php (7.3 from remi running as fpm) / postgres stack with a cronjob to update the feeds. I also wrote a job to backup & archive the postgres DB off-site.
Clients: Tiny Tiny RSS for Android (Palabre also supports tt-rss via a plugin, but not very well it seems), Newsboat for CLI & Fiery Feeds for IOS which is almost as good as Mr. Reader (RIP).
Gnome 3.30 on Arch Linux not ready for use
It seems that the version of Gnome 3.30 on Arch is so unstable with such poor plugin support (despite what the Gnome developers think, tray icons are still required, Gnome is not the only DE available) that I strongly recommend against using it for now. I’ve gone back to the comforting embrace of XFCE. Maybe when Fedora 29 is released 3.30 will be stable in other distributions.
Fix TopIcons Plus on Gnome 3.30
sed -i 's#tray.manage_screen(global.screen, Main.panel.actor)#tray.manage_screen(Main.panel.actor)#' ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/TopIcons@phocean.net/extension.js
Github Dark Theme
Why have I only just discovered this?
Set terminal title to hostname when using screen
Put this in ~/.bashrc
if [[ $TERM = "screen" ]]; then
SHORTHOST=$(hostname -s)
NEW_TITLE="\033]0;${SHORTHOST}\007"
echo -ne "\033P${NEW_TITLE}\033\\"
fi
With help from here
Can probably do this at screen startup rather than in each bash…
check_multi_url – Check 100s of URLs asynchronously
A new nagios check I’ve written for checking a lot of URLs quickly: check_multi_url.
Get an email when a web page changes
Set up a cron job like the below:
12 10,19 * * * curl -s https://sitetocheck.com/page.html | grep 'text that will change' >/dev/null || mail -s 'page changed' your@emailaddress.com
Rebuild nvidia modules for new kernel
sudo dkms autoinstall