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Bring Single-Meta-Keypress Overview Behavior to KDE6 (just like Gnome!) – and a bit on KDE configuration files…
Like a lot of things in the tech world these days, it all started with a short question on Reddit: Keyboard shortcut to search programs in overview like Gnome? byu/AveryFreeman inkde Teal;Deer: I found out the meta-only modifier is one thing that needed to be set in $HOME/.config/kwinrc, but also the ExposeAll=Meta config in $HOME/.config/kglobalshortcutsrc…
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Name Your Distro: Flatpaks irritatingly don’t follow desktop theme (written specific to KDE / Plasma-Desktop 6)
This is not an issue with any Linux distro specifically, but with all distros in general. If anyone out there’s had this issue, I’m sure you’ve shared my pain. I’d struggled with getting flatpaks to follow the (dark) system theme I set for a while, and I finally just got it fixed, so I thought…
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Windows Server Core: Setting a New IP Address For Your DC (including IPv6 & Client DNS)
I’ve been working on moving to Windows Server Core for my DCs, and getting adjusted to PowerShell has been slightly daunting, as the only CLI I’m really familiar with is Unix-based, and, while there are similarties to be sure, they are also very different in a lot of respects. There’s a plethora of remote-based GUI…
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Simple HTTP Server for sending local images to Rancher’s Harvester HCI OS
I haven’t gotten very far with Harvester yet, having taken down the first cluster I built to re-purpose resources, but I thought I’d explore it again for running some VMS (security video recording) packages at a local business so we can avoid ESXi license costs and potentially scale-out (add servers) in the future without having…
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Install Fedora 36 from RAW disk image on WSL – for free – by using WSL
Some people are charging for Fedora in the Windows store. I guess it’s good work if you can get it (?) Charging for someone else’s free OS seems kinda lame to me, but I don’t mind getting my hands dirty. I could see this process being intimidating for some people, for them $5.99 might be…
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Cheap 2U Case Survives Longer than Most Cockroaches, Morphing Several Times More than Caterpillar
I’ve noticed lately this blog has turned into being less about the info I’m trying to share with people, and more of a collection of me rambling on about the stuff I’ve fixed or put together. I’m not sure what’s wrong with me. I just spent an hour going off on another blog about this…
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Booting Fedora 36 on default btrfs partition structure from the grub prompt
Hey I ran into an issue where I had an unpopulated grub menu on a Fedora 36 Workstation installation. It ended up only booting to the empty menu, but at least I could drop to a prompt to try and figure out how to get through it. The usual booting with a live USB, mounting…
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VMware Upgrade renders Workstation 16.2.1 useless, thanks to Houdini-like disappearance of DLLs
Hey, I just came across an issue many people have been experiencing after upgrading VMware Workstation to 16.2.1 in Windows. It looks like the installer has a bug that deletes two necessary files by accident, and their absence prevents the programs from running, beginning with vmware-tray.exe, which is the precursor to all things Workstation. The…
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Mount Ubuntu 22.04 ZFS partitions using live ISO for disaster recovery
My system runs ZFS and lately has been dropping to the initramfs / busybox prompt on boot. I had a hard time finding a fleshed-out guide on how to mount ZFS in a live environment for performing disaster recovery tasks like chroot and grub repair, so I thought I’d write something up. My system was…
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dpdk 22.03 rpm packages for Fedora 36: a dependency of openvswitch
I meant to post this over a month ago, but got sidetracked, so I’m coming in a little late. Unfortunately, it looks like even though Fedora 36 has officially been released, the dpdk 22.03 rpms still aren’t available. Back when I compiled these, I realized there were no official dpdk 22.03 rpms available in the…