Thunderbird – Useful Extensions
Theme Font & Size Changer Gnome3 DE Settings: Size = 13, Zoom = 1.50 Hi DPI screens – in MacBookProRetina11,1 – 13″ – Thunderbird often gives odd rendering of the … Read More
Tag: Linux
Arch Linux on MacBookProRetina – Kernel 4.2.1.1 breaks wifi – how to roll back to 4.1.6
Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics All is great with pacman -Su – but occasionally unexpected things happen. This morning after updating (including Kernel 4.2.1.1, wifi on MacBookPro11,1Retina broke. It would recognize the network … Read More
Arch Linux – my useful tools
rsync wget sushi – nautilus image preview with space bar terminator (pacman) tweaktool remmina – rdp / vnc client backintime – backup tool gui for rsync anki owncloud-client libreoffice gimp … Read More
ext4 file system support on OSX
Two options found for using ext4 drives on OS-X. 1. install a proven driver – not nice if we do not want to install system changes to OS-X. Paragon ExtFS … Read More
Ubuntu SMB share (smbd) for OS-X / Windows clients
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/How to Create a Network Share Via Samba Via CLI Install Samba sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install samba Set a password for your user in Samba sudo smbpasswd -a … Read More
Raspberry Pi – install and resize mounted partition
Install from USB Flash onto sdcard here: https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/ Re-size file system There are no utilities included for automatic file system re-sizing. However, it’s not hard to do manually. Once booted: … Read More
Ubuntu 15.04 – Welcome to Emergency mode! – FSCK solution
From: http://askubuntu.com/questions/646414/welcome-to-emergency-mode-think-it-is-a-fsck-problem Boot into Ubuntu Live DVD/USB In terminal: 12sudo -i fdisk -l Identify where your root (/) partition is, then: In this example, assume /dev/sda1 1 umount /dev/sda1 fsck … Read More
x2go remote client Ubuntu
From JupiterBroadcasting LAS 374 – Show Notes: – Install X2Go 1apt-get update sudo apt-get install software-properties-common 1add-apt-repository ppa:x2go/stable 1sudo apt-get update 1sudo apt-get install x2goserver x2goserver-xsession 1sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa 1sudo … Read More
Downloading YouTube (or other) media for local review
** UPDATE 2018: 1brew install youtube-dl Delivery of reference materials by client was done by sending YouTube links… Command line solution: youtube-dl (linux, osx) https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#readme To install for all UNIX … Read More