I’m back on Ubuntu with the Gnome 3 desktop environment and here are a few customsations to make it more productive and make moving between Gnome 3 & Windows simple.
Read more →Working with Gnome 3
Monitor Internet Health with FluentBit & Grafana
I want to keep an eye on my Internet service provider after a series of prolonged outages, to that end I setup a Grafana dashboard to monitor my connectivity to various online services.
Read more →Bash opinions
Try out Spack on Arm HPC | CP2K
Host Hugo static website on GitHub Pages using Actions and my domain
In a cost-saving exercise I wanted to try host my personal website on a free platform, since the code repository is hosted on GitHub, I decided to look into GitHub pages.
Read more →my Vim
This is my .vimrc
, I find it benefitial to use this where I do development to normalise my editor across different operating systems, and to enable some useful untapped features to make Vim feel a bit less prehistoric.
Package Management for .deb & .rpm for Debian, Ubuntu & Red Hat, CentOS, Suse
A smattering of useful commands for dealing with package managers!
Read more →SFTP instead of SCP
SCP suffered from weak input validation for decades until CVE-2019-6111, the maintainers recommended using SFTP until patched versions can be deployed. I, like many others, were reminded SFTP existed!
Read more →Patching Lustre 2.10 for Linux 4.14
The Lustre community supports recent point-releases of RHEL/CentOS but those patches don’t seem to come back into existing Lustre releases, since those releases don’t officially support later kernels. I installed client 2.10 thinking it had the best chance of working but encountered huge numbers of errors when compiling!
Read more →Enjoying GNOME3
SSH port forwarding
The following command connects to our server and forwards a specific port on our local machine to the server. In this case we forward port 5432
which belongs to PostgreSQL, so when we connect to localhost:5432
on the desktop, the connection is forwarded through the secure tunnel to the server.