Category: Technology

  • Chinese Input + KDE Neon

    Managed to get Chinese input on KDE Neon using fcitx. These are the packages I have installed: sudo apt install fcitx fcitx-bin fcitx-config-common fcitx-config-gtk fcitx-data fcitx-frontend-all fcitx-frontend-gtk2 fcitx-frontend-gtk3 fcitx-frontend-qt4 fcitx-frontend-qt5 fcitx-module-dbus fcitx-module-kimpanel fcitx-module-lua fcitx-module-x11 fcitx-modules fcitx-ui-classic im-config libfcitx-core0 libfcitx-gclient0 libfcitx-qt5-1 libgeoclue0 libgettextpo0 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libpresage-data libpresage1v5 libtinyxml2.6.2v5 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2 presage zenity zenity-common fcitx-libpinyin To start at…

  • KDE Neon System Settings Workspace Theme Picker Missing

    sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo apt install qml-module-org-kde-kcm Source: https://muhdzamri.blogspot.tw/2018/01/problem-with-kde-look-and-feel-and.html More info: # apt show qml-module-org-kde-kcm Package: qml-module-org-kde-kcm Version: 5.42.0-0neon+16.04+xenial+build54 Priority: optional Section: libs Source: kdeclarative Maintainer: Neon CI <[email protected]> Installed-Size: 63.5 kB Depends: libkf5declarative5 (>= 5.42.0-0neon+16.04+xenial+build54), qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2, libc6 (>= 2.14), libkf5quickaddons5, libqt5core5a (>= 5.9.3+dfsg), libqt5qml5 (>= 5.9.3), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/frameworks/kdeclarative…

  • Handy WeeChat/IRC references

    SASL + SSL config instructions:  https://mikaela.info/english/2015/03/26/weechat-sasl-simply.html Let’s Encrypt Relay SSL Cert:  https://pthree.org/2016/05/20/weechat-relay-with-lets-encrypt-certificates/ Autojoin channel thing:  https://superuser.com/questions/743206/how-do-i-join-all-the-channels-in-my-weechat-layout

  • dnsmasq, NFS, and a Pi 3: How to boot and run your Pi 3 over LAN

    Overview Enable USB boot mode on the Pi (enables booting via network) Setup dnsmasq on the server (provides /boot) Setup NFS on the server (privides /)

  • Local git repo + ssh keys

    Handy little guide on setting up git repos locally. If you’re you’ve got PasswordAuthentication set to no in your sshd_config, you need to disable it temporarily to copy the keys as the user you normally use using ssh-copy-id git@localhost.  Once the key is successfully copied, then you will no longer be prompted for a password..  and you can re-disable Password…

  • Apartment and keelung1.ddns.net Maintenance

    Geeked out pretty hard this weekend!  Bit of a convoluted process but I’m happy with the way things are going.  Laptop is free to run Windows for vidya.  Raspberry Pi 3 does my dinky Linux server stuff. Re-partitioned the drive in the Windows laptop to have a bit more room for the break-in-case-of-emergency Linux partition…

  • Scott Forsyth’s Blog – URL Rewrite vs. Redirect; What’s the difference?

    IIS URL Rewrite has five different types of actions. They are: Rewrite, Redirect, Custom Response, Abort Request, and None. And if you have ARR (Application Request Routing) installed, then at the … Source: Scott Forsyth’s Blog – URL Rewrite vs. Redirect; What’s the difference?

  • Stuck on the last step of Openfire installation?

    update `ofUser` set plainPassword = ‘admin’, encryptedPassword = null where username = ‘admin’; See if this helps 😉

  • ELK stack made

    Following this guide I set up ELK stack in a VM.  Currently only getting logs from my www server, but will add others later.  Also need to mess with grok.

  • mysqld_safe Directory ‘/var/run/mysqld’ for UNIX socket file don’t exists.

    This is an error I get when starting MySQL on a Galera cluster node after a reboot. The result of this is that MySQL fails to start automatically after a reboot.  I have no idea why this is happening and the error appears to be extremely rare, as there (from what Googling I’ve done so…