This is the second on the Linux tips series, recently I tried formatting my external hard drive in Linux to NTFS. Used a LUKS container of course, and used this command to start the process:
sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/mapper/luks-xxxxxxxxxxxbut then my terminal showed my this after running …
Over the years in my Linux journey, I’ve been slowly developing a soft spot for simple, lightweight (preferably terminal-based) applications over complicated bulky ones, why I’ve been slowly going through the process of substituting bulky, GUI-heavy apps for minimalist ones in my workflow; ranger for thunar, vim (with …
The words Spectre and Meltdown sound like the name of some Hollywood thrillers (actually, Spectre is the twenty-fourth spy film in the James Bond film series), but this is not a film review, its actually pretty serious. Spectre and Meltdown are the names of two very serious security flaws that …
Systemd comes with a component named systemd-networkd that you can use in-place of the de facto network manager on most Linux distros, the aptly named networkmanager. Why bother you may ask? If networkmanager works well for you, there is no need in my opinion to use anything else. But for …
This is the first of many Linux tips and tricks that I would be posting on my blog, my fat32 formatted SD Card recently got corrupted and I was nervous as I had stored some important pictures on the card. After searching on the internet for a solution, I came …
Microsoft recently released a new major update for Windows 10 which they call the ‘Windows 10 Creators Update’. Of course what I’m mostly interested in is what updates they made to the privacy settings in the new update, I’ve updated my Windows 10 VM to the Creators Update …
Backing up your Android phone by using the phone manufacturer’s prescribed software is in most cases a chore, there is a more easy way to backup your phone’s data and apps using adb. Android Debug Bridge or adb as it’s commonly known is one of the …
Running Linux on your system and doing most of your work through the terminal?, then you’ll be happy to learn that you can display from and add events to your Google Calendar via gcalcli. From the software’s homepage:
gcalcli is a Python application that allows you to access …
On the 24th of June, 2016. This happened:
Was watching the results as they came in and when the Sunderland vote was declared for the leave camp, I knew right then that the remain camp was in a spot of bother. Except in London and Scotland, the remain vote was …
I have been using Pelican for a couple of months now, and I have finally completed moving my Wordpress posts over to Pelican. Pelican is a static site generator written in Python that is simple and easy to use.
I used a Wordpress plugin ‘Jekyll Exporter’ to convert my Wordpress …
If you’re like me and you run a software that requires ‘unsigned’ windows drivers to function properly, in my case the software I’m running is Librecrypt which is very useful as it enables me to mount my LUKS-encrypted hard drive on a Windows system.
To enable Test Mode …
I tried connecting my ArchLinux laptop to a BT-Wifi Hotspot recently and it kept timing out. Only BT-WiFi has this issue as I was able to connect to other WiFi hotspots without any issues. I found the answer as usual in a Post on the ArchLinux Forum.
The solution is …
The horrific attacks on Paris by terrorists is sickening and must be condemned by all. This senseless cowardly attack that left more than 127 people dead and God knows how many injured is not only an attack on democracy but also an attack on the very core of the way …