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…
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 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.…
Ping with timestamp
Since I am always looking for my notes I am adding this snippet here for reference. Handy for checking the time a reboot takes for example.
Save WeChat Video Clip
To save a video to your computer is not as easy in WeChat as one may think. In WhatsApp this is easier since files are also local. In WeChat I did the following: 1. Open web.wechat.com. I used Firefox 47.0.1 2. Scan IR code from WeChat on Iphone to login…
Papyros Shell
Since I want to capture what I did to take a look at the initial stages Papyros shell I am jotting down what worked for me. It sounds like soon the developers will have working downloadable images to try so its worth waiting for those. Getting ArchLinux going in Virtualbox…
Sorting IP addresses in Excel
Sometimes you need to manipulate lists of IP addresses in Excel but of course it sorts on strings which is not ideal for IP addresses. A quick way to sort is adding another column with the following formula and sorting on that new column. =((VALUE(LEFT(B6, FIND(“.”, B6)-1)))*256^3)+((VALUE(MID(B6, FIND(“.”, B6)+1, FIND(“.”,…
Watch Process Id
Sometimes you want to keep tabs on a long running process and get notified by email when it is done. This is an example of just that.