I did a quick bit of math, considering replacing my current latest Gluster brick with RaspberryPi bricks. I’m taking 125€ a disk for the HDs, as the actual price doesnt matter that much here. I’m also using the same price for both options, while the Rasp-pi needs USB disks and those will at least cost [...]
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The support for animated backgrounds in Gnome is not new, but the path to actually rolling your own and activating it on your system is all but easy today. Ubuntu offers 2 magically changing backgrounds but no information about how to do this yourself. There is a cute “+” button that allows you to add [...]
Seeing some really really annoying install errors! Upgrade to 12.10. Still has that ugly “The upgrade needs a total of 24,0 M free space on disk ‘/boot’. error” though. — Gert (@g3n) Oktober 19, 2012 The upgrade will continue but the ‘linux-image-extra-3.5.0-17-generic’ package may not be in a working state. #omg — Gert (@g3n) [...]
A script to commit all the GIT projects in a map
Posted: 21st September 2012 by Gert in Linux, PlanetI keep all the documents, code and whatnot for DGTL in several git repositories and synchronise those to secret remote locations (cool ey.) But its a hassle to update them all and why keep manually doing mundane tasks when you can replace it with a small (recursive) bash script So I did. The script loops [...]
More writing & some of my articles are now available for free pdf download!
Posted: 16th February 2012 by Gert in LinuxAnother editorial written and posted; hooray Felt like the right time to update gertschepens.be/writings with the most recent data and while doing so, I found out that 2 of my articles are now available online for your free downloading convenience; the Unity one and the Virtualisation article! Its great to know that anyone perusing that [...]
I have some issues with my fresh ZBox I was seeing some video tearing; the 5.1 isnt working (yet) and I have this annoying issue with the cursor showing after having switched away from the ZBox HDMI. Apparently the 5.1 issue is solved in the newest proprietary Catalyst 11.12 driver and the installing info is [...]
This NetworkManager thing in Ubuntu is horrible. Well; its not too bad actually but the commandline documentation sucks very very hard! A quick brain dump after my questing for anyone dealing with this.. excuse my messy text. A Google search for “Ubuntu NetworkManager Commandline” offers help disabling the NetworkManager; installing it (help.ubuntu) and refers you [...]
Its time for another installment of the most useless type of blogpost for readers, notes on .. and this time its the Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3 post! For more info about the concept, please read the “Notes on ..” concept post. The default disclaimer is relevant as usual, auto post set to Nov 9th, 2011, [...]
Another notes post; this time on 11.10. Notes as I experience the many irks or positive moments while running this new software. Throughout this text I complain a lot. Thats because its unfiltered thoughts! Ranted directly to the page and auto posted at a cut-off date about 4 days later. This means you are now [...]
I have the code for my automatic Oberon login thingy on gertschepens.be/bash ; It if I need local or remote login into my router at home and if remote, retrieves my home IP from my jopin (thingy that remembers IP addresses for me) Time goes by and scripts get updated. If Jopin is out (servers have hickups) [...]
