Refer two posts down on how to move your /tmp folder to memory (tempfs). Now symlink your Google Chrome (or Firefox) cache to /tmp (which resides in memory). rm -rf ~/.cache/google-chrome ln -s /tmp ~/.cache/google-chrome
Remember to set the sticky bit as well as nodev, noexec and nosuid for /tmp. Here is a line in fstab and the meaning of these 3 taken from the mount man page: nodev Do Read more…
For a while now I wanted to post this. I am running this on my PC at home because I don’t feel like doing it manually every day/week/month etc, and also because I don’t use Read more…
Here is an excellent resource. A bit long but really great! https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/bugs#TOC-Hibernate-and-suspend-don-t-always-work-well:-they-make-some-computers-malfunction-or-even-enter-a-coma I recently bought myself an SSD hard drive for my old notebook. Well worth it! You need to make a few tweaks though Read more…
Wait what? Is swappiness even an actual word? According to Google Chrome’s built in spell checker and most probably any dictionary it is not, but to any Linux user and expert out there, it most Read more…
type sudo blkid. You will get output like this: /dev/sda1: UUID=”9081b56d-8715-49f3-a35d-529a39d5780e” TYPE=”ext4″ PARTUUID=”c8168d71-01″ /dev/sda5: UUID=”fbd90bd5-6b1a-4088-8569-0afbf0faebab” TYPE=”swap” PARTUUID=”c8168d71-05″ /dev/sdb1: UUID=”79a6887b-0168-464e-9507-84cc1233fcb6″ TYPE=”ext4″ PARTUUID=”c3072dd0-01″ /dev/sdc1: UUID=”4E65750852A3B04A” TYPE=”ntfs” PARTUUID=”000dfe15-01″ Way at the end is the NTFS drive. Now create Read more…
Because /media is owned by root, plex will have issues. Add the plex user to your group: sudo addgroup plex YOURGROUP Then, open the “disks” app in ubuntu, choose your flash drive, click on the Read more…
Plex is cool, but if your internet goes down, then your clients can’t always connect. So, back the the basics for me with ps3MediaServer as a backup: sudo apt-get install mencoder tsmuxer avisynth ffmpeg mplayer Read more…
1.) Get your current public IP and write it to a file: dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com >> myip.txt (got this off the internet, thanks to the guy that posted this!) 2.) Read the file contents Read more…
OMS, the apache guys just can’t stick to a standard. But anyhow, here are some configs to do: Issue 1 (Where is my config.php) Most likely it is in /var/www/owncloud/config/config.php Issue 2 (when starting Apache) Read more…
service cron status — check if it is running ps -ef |grep cron –another way to check if cron is running You can use the below to generate output files every XX minutes with a Read more…
nano /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free # For source package access, uncomment the following line deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free Then do: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y sudo apt-get Read more…
I recently had to get Kali up and running on Hyper V. Here are some tips and tricks: After installation, use these sources (they might change after some time so always check the Kali website Read more…
Thanks to this guy for this awesome post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/5g249i/tip_redirect_all_dns_to_pihole_with_mikrotik/ Basically, you need to do this: Change 192.168.88.110 to your pi hole IP Change 192.168.88.0/24 to your subnet #Make sure all DNS goes to pihole IP Read more…
Always wanted to set up a squid and squidguard transparent proxy on your Mikrotik router, and a raspberry pi? Then look no further! To get squid up and running on your PI, check out this Read more…
I sometimes get this in docker or a VM. It is related to checksum offloading onto the NIC. Diable checksum offloading: sudo apt install ethtool sudo ethtool –offload eth0 rx off tx off
I am running Ubuntu 18.04 in HyperV and couldn’t push to Github. Pull was fine. This was LEGIT the fix. A driver issue…. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56946336/ubuntu-wsl2-git-getting-the-remote-end-hung-up-unexpectedly-on-large-repos/56946337#56946337 Go here to get the latest Intel WiFi driver: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28876/Windows-10-Wi-Fi-Drivers-for-Intel-Wireless-Adapters?v=t