Ubuntu 24 added some guarding for Python packages which no longer allows installing applications through pip on system level. Instead...
Here is a bash script that I use to auto-configure displays on Ubuntu 24.04 with Xorg. Background
$ cat ~/.config/mimeapps.list # open Archives with FileRoller and not extract them immediately, wich is the new behaviour when clicking archives in...
With Ubuntu 24.04 it's not longer possible to setup FDE with BTRFS The new installer won't offer you...
Canonical does not ship Ubuntu 24.04+ Vagrant images due to HashiCorps switch to the Business Source License (BSL). There is...
I noticed that tig 2.5.1 that is provided by Ubuntu 22.04 repositories has inferior bash completion than older versions after...
On our Ubuntu machines we have nautilus file manager with nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal installed. This adds an entry to...
There are different kind of memory measurement metrics in Linux. These are the differences: Code Name Description vsz virtual memory...
If you want to system-wide disable the microphone of your external webcam in PulseAudio use the following one-liners...
Tested on Ubunut 22.04 1. Opener script Create a file ~/.local/bin/coverage_zip_opener with: #!/bin/bash tmp_folder="/tmp/coverage-report-opener" if [ -z "$1" ]
Wondering what these numbers in the mount entries in /etc/fstab are meaning? The first number fs_freq When this field...
You can use pg_repack to do a VACUUM FULL without holding an exclusive lock during processing. There is still...
Intel CPUs receive updates, including security relevant upgrades, through 2 channels: Firmware/UEFI BIOS updates can also update the microcode in...
When you write your next CarrierWave uploader, consider processing your images with libvips instead of ImageMagick. Reasons for libvips
When you're using a third party repository on your Ubuntu or Debian system and need to find out which...
In dieser Card machst du einige Übungsaufgaben um Linux Server mit Ansible zu verwalten. Da es vermutlich zu aufwendig ist...
A severe bug was found in ImageMagick by Bryan Gonzalez from Ocelot Team. It allows to embed the content of...
We had a strange behaviour on one of our mariadb-servers: Everyday at around midnight we saw that the root...
When changing the glibc version, it's possible that the upgrade also includes changes to how locales work.
The Oracle mysql client has an odd behavior if your server uses latin1 as default character-set-server. Command
Wir arbeiten in einem Umfeld in dem sich fast alles um das Web und HTTP dreht. Wir betreiben Webseiten und...
If you use third party APT sources you might end up with unmaintained packages after removing the external source or...
If the project you're working on has, say, 39 repositories and counting in GitLab and you need all the...
If you need to convert an SVG source to PS or EPS, the most common suggestion on the interwebs is...