OK! Just a quick one, more a note to myself as I brain spaced when trying to get GDM to display on my desired monitor when my system first starts up. History: I have a duel monitor setup and I’m running Gnome3 and the GNOME Display Manager (GDM) which handles graphical user login, as well… Continue reading GDM display on the monitor you want
Seeing as I’m using a lot of virtual machines for various test and production environments, I thought I would give an insight into the the work flow I am currently using to speed up and ease my creation of VM’s. (also so I have a resource to fall back on). My workstation runs linux. Using… Continue reading My libVirt clone/sysprep work flow
THE PROBLEM: “Peer’s certificate issuer has been marked as not trusted by the user. (-8172) – Cannot add MS SMIMEEncKeyPrefs attribute”, you may need to select different mail options” THE SCENARIO: Right! so I have had this issue a couple of times. Well in fact, once a year, every year, when I go through the… Continue reading Peer certificate error when S/MIME signing email
*If you use Thunderbird, the world has moved on and become simpler since I wrote this. Go to updated Blog Not just linux but any application that supports WebDAV or CardDAV. Following on from previous posts about using Apples iCloud services on non Apple devices or operating systems. See. – Apple CalDAV address…without .plist –… Continue reading Using your iCloud address book in Linux
A very common error that occurs when using youtube-dl (it’s not just for youtube you know) is the dreaded: WARNING: unable to extract html5 player; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the –verbose flag and… Continue reading youtube-dl bombs and needs updating (Ubuntu 17.04)
This is really just a place holder that I’ll be updating while I examine the various was to skin the cat called storage clustering. My main focus will be for High Availability and as a shared storage back end for virtual machine clusters. Also the ability to roll as much myself for a minimal price… Continue reading Storage Clustering….a living research project
I use FFmpeg “a lot”. It is open source and free. It is the driving back end used by many commercial and shareware applications. Why pay for a front end when the back end is free and very well documented. Stop paying a lazy tax and gain further power by simply taking some time to… Continue reading Improve FFmpeg x264/AAC quality
These instructions will create a bootable install medium for the installation of a operating system using a .iso file downloaded from the network, the dd command and a standard USB stick. You need admin level access (to run the sudo command). This covers MacOS [for Linux see Bootable USB install device in Linux] Let us begin… Continue reading Bootable USB install device in MacOS
These instructions will create a bootable install medium for the installation of a operating system using a .iso file downloaded from the network, the dd command and a standard USB stick. You need root level access (to run the sudo command). This covers Linux [for MacOS see Bootable USB install device in MacOS] Let us begin… Continue reading Bootable USB install device in Linux
So, I’ve walked into this one a few times when compiling a new kernel for the first time after a new distro install. Each time I shake my head and can’t believe I did again. When compiling a new linux kernel and fails with the following error fatal error: openssl/aes.h: No such file or directory… Continue reading Kernel fatal error: openssl/aes.h
