Author: doozer
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Configuring Sudo
Sudo is almost perfectly configured out of the box but the one thing I find a little irritating is the short default timeout for the session. I’m not against having a timeout but I’m the only person that has physical access to my machine and if some has gained remote access and has set up…
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Monitor what is Happening With Sudo
Just a very quick note to show how you can monitor what is happening with the sudo command by running: If you run this command without the sudo prefix you will only get a list of your own sudo commands. Any attempt to use sudo by a user that doesn’t have sudo privileges will be…
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Setting up a New Debian Server
I recently got a new server and I realized I don’t have a comprehansive guide for setting a machine up from scratch. This guide is particularly useful for setting up something like a VPS where you only have SSH access, it assumes you have installed a bare bones headless version of Debian and have root…
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Making Google Drive work on Debian with Rclone
In an earlier article on setting up KDE Neon I mentioned that I was going to use KIO-Gdrive to access my Google Drive though Dolphin. That was a total failure due to a bug with the way KIO-Gdrive handles the token needed for access – it seems to forget the token every few operations. Digging…
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Debian System Management
In an ideal world all the software I use would be installed from the Debian repositories and it’d be a single click to keep it all up to date. In reality it’s not that simple. The built in package manager does a pretty good job but there are pieces of software that can’t be installed…
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Beginners Notes for Latex
This is just a random collection of notes about Latex covering hurdles I hit early on. Including SVG images Long story short, don’t bother, it’s not worth the hassle. In theory you can \usepackage{svg} but adding just that gave me a ton of errors mentioning xcolor names. Adding the line \PassOptionsToPackage{svgnames}{xcolor} to the preamble fixed…
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Using ClassicThesis
I’m formatting a thesis at the moment and I’ve decided to use Classic Thesis as a starting point. From what I’ve read this is a choice that will divide the room. Some people seem to love the look and others hate it. I quite like the look of it, I certainly couldn’t do better myself,…
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Setting up TexStudio
A short while ago I decided it was time to learn a little Latex as I want to produce some good looking documents. After many dead-ends I settled on using TexStudio to work with Latex. There’s no reason you can’t do just use a simple text editor but I prefer syntax highlighting and my spelling…
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Beginning Tex / Latex / Lyx
Despite spending more years at universities than I probably should have I’ve never had the need to use Latex. It came up once when I was collaborating on a paper while studying computer science but my partner was doing most of the actual writing so I even managed to miss it then. In all the…
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Replacing a drive in a ZFS array
I have a ZFS RAIDZ2 array in my main server and recently it suffered a drive failure. Naturally I was woefully under prepared for this occurrence so I rushed out and bought a replacement drive and got cracking with learning how to safely replace the drive. Background If you don’t already have one you need…
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Manually Creating a ZFS Pool From Mismatched Drives
I recently suffered a drive failure on my main ZFS array. Naturally I wasn’t as prepared for this even as I should have been so I wasn’t 100% sure how to go about replacing the drive. I decided to press my old rack server into action to get some practice in before working on the…
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Going a Bit Rusty
I’m sure I’m not the first to make a rusty pun but I couldn’t resist. I’ve coded professionally now for around 25 years but unlike many developers I don’t actually know that many languages well. My career to day has been almost exclusively Java starting back with version 1.2 (I learnt on version 1.1). I’ve…