Category: linux

Ever wondered why after installing that Ubuntu Snap application on your desktop, initially the icon is shown correctly as it should be on the Unity Dash or the Unity Launcher when you locked it there. But subsequently, the icon DOES NOT load properly after the next reboots? To put it accurately, it goes away and…

Rediscovered this really cool app named scrcpy recently. I think I’ve read about it before but never bothered about it. Until now. Because my needs have changed and I actually have a use case for this app now. More on that later down there. scrcpy – Now that is just a weird name. Need I…

Have used FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) in other projects before. It really makes a whole lot of difference in page loading time. I don’t know why this has not become the default since PHP is literally everywhere and conventional PHP implementations are slow-ish. Also, it is not that complicated to set up. Of course, I…

For the longest time I did not do anything to improve my websites’ loading time. Well that changed the other day. I forced myself to do it. Partially that is. I have not done much to change the settings on the configuration files of Apache2, MySQL and PHP. If I remember correctly, I have done…

These are the things that I did to upgrade my AWS EC2 server. Not exactly the instance but the software that is running on it. I am jotting this down since I might have a use for it some time later. Perhaps somebody in a similar situation as I am will find it useful too.…

I am gonna preface this post with a statement (before going on about why I want to try ChromeOS) – Neverware’s CloudReady OVA image does not work on Windows. It does not work on Linux as well, but this is to be expected. The weird thing is that I get the exact same error message…

Is it just me, or is the Reopen Closed Tab functionality that the Google Chrome browser once had among its plethora of features already gone? In case you are not familiar or not following what feature this is I am talking about, it is that option when right clicking on any open tab that lets…

Well, I installed Viber for the Linux desktop today. Yet again. I remember installing it not so long ago only to end up uninstalling it straight away because the application window looked disproportionately huge on my Ubuntu 16.04. The issue is still present now. Describing it, below are a few of what I noticed when…

Yeah, whut?! I have noticed this for a while ever since I setup this site a few weeks ago. While I uploaded everything by hand through good old `scp` at first, it really didn’t occur to me then that there was something weird going on. I didn’t bother with it so much then. All that…

First encountered this bug in 2017. It is almost 2 years now and they still have not gotten to fix it. Well, somebody actually said they already have a fix for it but have not committed it yet since according to them, and I quote: “We’ve had a fix for this in review for a…

Netflix is perhaps one of the biggest users of Microsoft Silverlight. Based on my browsing habits, I rarely encounter websites using Pipelight technology.  Most other sites are either using the good old Adobe Flash or HTML5 for streaming. Besides, most of my online streaming needs are quite satiated by YouTube. While Netflix is not available…

Here’s a neat little program to restrict server access of Linux user accounts to SCP and/or SFTP only. It is called rssh. What it does is, and I quote: rssh is a restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp. It now also includes support for rdist, rsync, and cvs. For example,…

This is the scenario.. . You open a file using `vim` (or `vi`), let us say /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, and start editing furiously. A couple of minutes later you try to save it only to be greeted with an error saying – “E45: ‘readonly’ option is set (add ! to override)”. What a bummer! You have already…

Needed something new and fresh. Despite the fact that I despise anything that even remotely resembles a Mac OS X look, I do not have too much options (?) on Linux desktop-land. I have Ubuntu 14.04 running smoothly on my 4 year old laptop. KDE is what I have for my work PC. That leaves…

So I have been using KDE for the past 2 months now and have been loving it. Then again I have always been a KDE lover. Since I started using Linux for my desktops I have used a lot of desktop environments (DE) such as XFCE, LXDE, Enlightenment and Gnome (Of course, it’s pretty much…