I am using Powerline in my terminals and had an issue with the font. After messing with it I realize I was using a font that has not been patched for Powerline. I changed the gnome-terminal font from “Fira Mono Regular”to “DejaVu Sans Mono Book” and it worked. My steps…
Quick Backup and Purge
I highly recommend using restic instead of what I am talking about here. Mostly I am just documenting this for my own reference and this is not a great backup solution by any means. Also note: This script is creating backups local of course the idea would be to adapt…
Virtualbox Guest Additions Shared Folders
This may help someone so I am jotting down an issue I had. On some Linux flavors you may see the Virtualbox Guest additions shared folders not auto mounting on your desktop. I have seen this before but recently this was on Linux Lite for me. The issue is that…
Python Tar Backup and Purge
While I was working on a related project to use python to write to cloud object storage and the logic around purging; I jotted down some quick and dirty code here for my reference to build on. Normally I would recommend using the excellent restic program but in this case…
ZFS on Linux SMB Sharing
Having worked on and liked ZFS for a long time I am now using ZFS on my main Linux desktop. I thought it would be nice if I can just turn on SMB sharing using ZFS but after playing with this for a while I gave up. Seems like one…
AWS Storage Gateway Test
I recently wanted to take a quick look at the File Gateway. It is described as “Store files as objects in Amazon S3, with a local cache for low-latency access to your most recently used data.” I tried it on Virtualbox using the Vmware ESXi Image they offer. Steps: Download…
AWS Cognito and S3 Useful Commands
While I am delving into AWS Cognito and learning how it interacts with other services for example S3 object storage, I am jotting down some of the more useful CLI commands. This can be quite daunting to learn so it is very helpful to retain the commands for future reference.…
Object Storage Listing with Rclone and jq
Some examples of using rclone and jq to see object listing in a bucket. These examples was using Oracle (OCI) Object Storage but since this is rclone it should not matter what the target is. Rclone retrieving JSON object listing of a bucket: Use jq select to grab older than…
Vim And Auto Indent Unwanted New Lines
Recently I experienced a very annoying issue with copy/paste. Pasting a line using the Gnome terminal Control-V or Right Mouse Button caused the line to insert with an unwanted new line. I am not sure when or why this started but it could have to do with the file being…
Solaris Boot Environment And Lost Changes
Maybe you have similarly been perplexed like me when you are missing a file after a new boot environment(BE) was activated. In my example I know I created a file in my /root/Desktop folder and after pkg update and the resulting new BE was automatically activated and I rebooted I…