After creating a non-root Proxmox user, install essential tools (git, stow, gh) and pull in your dotfiles from GitHub to get a familiar shell environment on a fresh host.
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Copy and Paste in a Multi-OS System
Unifying copy and paste shortcuts when working across macOS locally and RHEL remotely via OpenText Exceed. Covers terminal emulator behaviour, gVim clipboard mapping, and Karabiner-Elements rules to make Ctrl-Shift-C/V and Cmd-C/V work consistently in both directions.
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tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it lets you run multiple terminal sessions inside a single window, split panes side by …
read moreInstalling Homebrew on a Debian 13 (Trixie) LXC Container
A verified step-by-step guide to installing Homebrew (Linuxbrew) on a Debian 13 "trixie" LXC unprivileged container, including group setup, prefix pre-creation, and multi-user configuration.
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"Find RedHat Version"
cat /etc/redhat-releaseReturns some thing like:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.7 (Tikanga)Find Kernel version using …
read more"Ubuntu and the Jetway ADPE4S"
Still unresolved
The Jetway ADPE4S uses a Marvell 88SE6145 chip which a number of users have had trouble getting to …
read more"Ubuntu (Linux) List Disks"
sudo lshw -class disk -class storage -shortOutputs :
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I started off following the ubuntu guide for installing a new drive, which uses fdsik to create the partitions how …
read more"unix mail command, delete all messages"
Cron jobs can have there results returned as mail via the unix mail system. If left unchecked for a while …
read more"Make Ubuntu Samba share show up on OS X 10.6 finder"
Install Avahi, it like bonjour auto discovery but for linux, then tell it about your servers samba service.
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The new (July 2011) Mac Book Air is now out, shipping with Lion.
The combination of these two fixes some …
read more"bash scripts and cron"
I have not fully read it but it looks like this is a good guide to bash scripting. A few …
read more"gem permissions on WebFaction"
After making a few updates to my site I decided to upgrade the version of sinatra I was using in …
read more"My Backup Strategy"
Considering various raid strategies I decided that Raid 5 would be too limiting and have previously found raid striping systems …
read more"screen -x not connecting when running as an other user"
I have been running into issues with screen when switching to another user:
read more$ su otheruser > password $ screen -x > Cannot open …"Basic grep usage"
Grep is a unix (and mac os x) command line tool to search files for text.
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1) Search for all …"Benchmark your website for load times."
I have been wondering how to do this for a while and accidentally discovered it while perusing this heroku page …
read more"Adding USB drives to a headless Ubuntu Linux box"
After adding some USB2 (NTFS formatted) drives to a headless Ubuntu server, they were not auto-mounted so I had to …
read more"Vim search and replace"
To search in Vim just press (apple-f for macvim) / then search string.
/searchThis will highlight all occurrences of 'search' …
read more"Creating executable gems"
This is not necessarily the correct way of creating executable gems but a method which worked for me.
Assuming we …
read more"Installing the ruby gem twitter on webfaction"
[Update]
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As this is a long post I am putting this update at the top. If you just want to …