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jekyll wordpress technology git webhook automation linux debian apt packages development docker singularity video hardware laptop thinkpad lenovo graphics firefox containers ad osx apple work security authenticator sudo web

Jekyll

• 12 Jun 2019 More blog automation - introducing Jekyll environments

  Further to my earlier post on automating deployment of my blog I found a small flaw with my method and have decided to fix it.

• 04 Jun 2019 Automating deployment of Blog with Gitea and Webhook

  Using webhook to automate deployment of this Blog via Gitea on push.

• 03 Jun 2019 New Blog (...new me?)

  So, I've started a new blog. It think this is my 3^rd or 4^th Blog, although it's the first new one in over 13 years, since I switched to Wordpress in April 2006.

Wordpress

• 03 Jun 2019 New Blog (...new me?)

  So, I've started a new blog. It think this is my 3^rd or 4^th Blog, although it's the first new one in over 13 years, since I switched to Wordpress in April 2006.

Technology

• 08 Aug 2019 HTML linter

  Trying to debug a missing close paragraph tag somewhere in a 300 line web page, I came across Tidy which helped with it's -e flag to report errors and warnings.

• 04 Jul 2019 Docker images and introspecting them

  I've been playing around with different ways to get graphical applications working in Docker and in the process creates some large images.

• 23 Jun 2019 Docker part 2

  After my previous post, on installing Docker, I needed to setup my first container. I choose to set-up a container for Firefox, first, as that required me to get a graphical application that also needed sound working.

• 14 Jun 2019 Making video indexes with FFmpeg

  I'm working on digitising some of my DVD collection at the moment, which means creating some pretty large files. Trying to view these over the network to discover what they are is pretty tedious (lots of buffering!), so I've been working on dumping an "index" image file that will helpfully give me enough information to determine what it is without actually loading/playing the file.

• 14 Jun 2019 Installing Docker on Debian

  I've been using virtual machines (via VirtualBox) for Linux-based testing and development for sometime but I've been persuaded that it's high-time I joined everyone else and started using containerisation.

• 12 Jun 2019 More blog automation - introducing Jekyll environments

  Further to my earlier post on automating deployment of my blog I found a small flaw with my method and have decided to fix it.

• 04 Jun 2019 Automating deployment of Blog with Gitea and Webhook

  Using webhook to automate deployment of this Blog via Gitea on push.

• 03 Jun 2019 New Blog (...new me?)

  So, I've started a new blog. It think this is my 3^rd or 4^th Blog, although it's the first new one in over 13 years, since I switched to Wordpress in April 2006.

Git

• 04 Jun 2019 Automating deployment of Blog with Gitea and Webhook

  Using webhook to automate deployment of this Blog via Gitea on push.

Webhook

• 04 Jun 2019 Automating deployment of Blog with Gitea and Webhook

  Using webhook to automate deployment of this Blog via Gitea on push.

Automation

• 12 Jun 2019 More blog automation - introducing Jekyll environments

  Further to my earlier post on automating deployment of my blog I found a small flaw with my method and have decided to fix it.

• 04 Jun 2019 Automating deployment of Blog with Gitea and Webhook

  Using webhook to automate deployment of this Blog via Gitea on push.

Linux

• 08 Jul 2019 Secure sudo with Google Authenticator

  A little while ago, I "secured" root access on my GNU/Linux¹ systems by stopping using the root password and migrating to sudo. I also setup Google Authenticator for it.

• 04 Jul 2019 Docker images and introspecting them

  I've been playing around with different ways to get graphical applications working in Docker and in the process creates some large images.

• 23 Jun 2019 Docker part 2

  After my previous post, on installing Docker, I needed to setup my first container. I choose to set-up a container for Firefox, first, as that required me to get a graphical application that also needed sound working.

• 14 Jun 2019 Making video indexes with FFmpeg

  I'm working on digitising some of my DVD collection at the moment, which means creating some pretty large files. Trying to view these over the network to discover what they are is pretty tedious (lots of buffering!), so I've been working on dumping an "index" image file that will helpfully give me enough information to determine what it is without actually loading/playing the file.

• 14 Jun 2019 Installing Docker on Debian

  I've been using virtual machines (via VirtualBox) for Linux-based testing and development for sometime but I've been persuaded that it's high-time I joined everyone else and started using containerisation.

• 12 Jun 2019 More blog automation - introducing Jekyll environments

  Further to my earlier post on automating deployment of my blog I found a small flaw with my method and have decided to fix it.

• 12 Jun 2019 Unmarking Debian packages as manually installed

  I sometimes manually install a Debian package, whilst trying to figure out dependencies for something else, and then discover I should have installed a different "parent" package that will pull it in.

• 04 Jun 2019 Automating deployment of Blog with Gitea and Webhook

  Using webhook to automate deployment of this Blog via Gitea on push.

Debian

• 04 Jul 2019 Docker images and introspecting them

  I've been playing around with different ways to get graphical applications working in Docker and in the process creates some large images.

• 23 Jun 2019 Docker part 2

  After my previous post, on installing Docker, I needed to setup my first container. I choose to set-up a container for Firefox, first, as that required me to get a graphical application that also needed sound working.

• 14 Jun 2019 Installing Docker on Debian

  I've been using virtual machines (via VirtualBox) for Linux-based testing and development for sometime but I've been persuaded that it's high-time I joined everyone else and started using containerisation.

• 12 Jun 2019 More blog automation - introducing Jekyll environments

  Further to my earlier post on automating deployment of my blog I found a small flaw with my method and have decided to fix it.

• 12 Jun 2019 Unmarking Debian packages as manually installed

  I sometimes manually install a Debian package, whilst trying to figure out dependencies for something else, and then discover I should have installed a different "parent" package that will pull it in.

• 04 Jun 2019 Automating deployment of Blog with Gitea and Webhook

  Using webhook to automate deployment of this Blog via Gitea on push.

Apt

• 12 Jun 2019 Unmarking Debian packages as manually installed

  I sometimes manually install a Debian package, whilst trying to figure out dependencies for something else, and then discover I should have installed a different "parent" package that will pull it in.

Packages

• 12 Jun 2019 Unmarking Debian packages as manually installed

  I sometimes manually install a Debian package, whilst trying to figure out dependencies for something else, and then discover I should have installed a different "parent" package that will pull it in.

Development

• 08 Aug 2019 HTML linter

  Trying to debug a missing close paragraph tag somewhere in a 300 line web page, I came across Tidy which helped with it's -e flag to report errors and warnings.

• 23 Jun 2019 Docker part 2

  After my previous post, on installing Docker, I needed to setup my first container. I choose to set-up a container for Firefox, first, as that required me to get a graphical application that also needed sound working.

• 14 Jun 2019 Installing Docker on Debian

  I've been using virtual machines (via VirtualBox) for Linux-based testing and development for sometime but I've been persuaded that it's high-time I joined everyone else and started using containerisation.

Docker

• 04 Jul 2019 Docker images and introspecting them

  I've been playing around with different ways to get graphical applications working in Docker and in the process creates some large images.

• 23 Jun 2019 Docker part 2

  After my previous post, on installing Docker, I needed to setup my first container. I choose to set-up a container for Firefox, first, as that required me to get a graphical application that also needed sound working.

• 14 Jun 2019 Installing Docker on Debian

  I've been using virtual machines (via VirtualBox) for Linux-based testing and development for sometime but I've been persuaded that it's high-time I joined everyone else and started using containerisation.

Singularity

• 14 Jun 2019 Installing Docker on Debian

  I've been using virtual machines (via VirtualBox) for Linux-based testing and development for sometime but I've been persuaded that it's high-time I joined everyone else and started using containerisation.

Video

• 14 Jun 2019 Making video indexes with FFmpeg

  I'm working on digitising some of my DVD collection at the moment, which means creating some pretty large files. Trying to view these over the network to discover what they are is pretty tedious (lots of buffering!), so I've been working on dumping an "index" image file that will helpfully give me enough information to determine what it is without actually loading/playing the file.

Hardware

• 16 Jun 2019 Graphical Glitches on Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on resume

  For a while (possiblyprobably since I installed it) I've had weird graphical glitches on resuming my laptop from deep sleep. Until now I'd settled for rebooting it to fix it but I went on the hunt for a better solution.

Laptop

• 16 Jun 2019 Graphical Glitches on Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on resume

  For a while (possiblyprobably since I installed it) I've had weird graphical glitches on resuming my laptop from deep sleep. Until now I'd settled for rebooting it to fix it but I went on the hunt for a better solution.

Thinkpad

• 16 Jun 2019 Graphical Glitches on Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on resume

  For a while (possiblyprobably since I installed it) I've had weird graphical glitches on resuming my laptop from deep sleep. Until now I'd settled for rebooting it to fix it but I went on the hunt for a better solution.

Lenovo

• 16 Jun 2019 Graphical Glitches on Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on resume

  For a while (possiblyprobably since I installed it) I've had weird graphical glitches on resuming my laptop from deep sleep. Until now I'd settled for rebooting it to fix it but I went on the hunt for a better solution.

Graphics

• 16 Jun 2019 Graphical Glitches on Lenovo ThinkPad X240 on resume

  For a while (possiblyprobably since I installed it) I've had weird graphical glitches on resuming my laptop from deep sleep. Until now I'd settled for rebooting it to fix it but I went on the hunt for a better solution.

Firefox

• 23 Jun 2019 Docker part 2

  After my previous post, on installing Docker, I needed to setup my first container. I choose to set-up a container for Firefox, first, as that required me to get a graphical application that also needed sound working.

Containers

• 04 Jul 2019 Docker images and introspecting them

  I've been playing around with different ways to get graphical applications working in Docker and in the process creates some large images.

Ad

• 08 Jul 2019 Changing Active Directory password on non-bound Mac

  To change an Microsoft Active Directory password on your (non-bound) Mac:

  $ kinit working_username@AD.DOMAIN
  $ kpasswd username_to_change@AD.DOMAIN

Osx

• 08 Jul 2019 Changing Active Directory password on non-bound Mac

  To change an Microsoft Active Directory password on your (non-bound) Mac:

  $ kinit working_username@AD.DOMAIN
  $ kpasswd username_to_change@AD.DOMAIN

Apple

• 08 Jul 2019 Changing Active Directory password on non-bound Mac

  To change an Microsoft Active Directory password on your (non-bound) Mac:

  $ kinit working_username@AD.DOMAIN
  $ kpasswd username_to_change@AD.DOMAIN

Work

• 08 Aug 2019 HTML linter

  Trying to debug a missing close paragraph tag somewhere in a 300 line web page, I came across Tidy which helped with it's -e flag to report errors and warnings.

• 08 Jul 2019 Changing Active Directory password on non-bound Mac

  To change an Microsoft Active Directory password on your (non-bound) Mac:

  $ kinit working_username@AD.DOMAIN
  $ kpasswd username_to_change@AD.DOMAIN

Security

• 08 Jul 2019 Secure sudo with Google Authenticator

  A little while ago, I "secured" root access on my GNU/Linux¹ systems by stopping using the root password and migrating to sudo. I also setup Google Authenticator for it.

Authenticator

• 08 Jul 2019 Secure sudo with Google Authenticator

  A little while ago, I "secured" root access on my GNU/Linux¹ systems by stopping using the root password and migrating to sudo. I also setup Google Authenticator for it.

Sudo

• 08 Jul 2019 Secure sudo with Google Authenticator

  A little while ago, I "secured" root access on my GNU/Linux¹ systems by stopping using the root password and migrating to sudo. I also setup Google Authenticator for it.

Web

• 08 Aug 2019 HTML linter

  Trying to debug a missing close paragraph tag somewhere in a 300 line web page, I came across Tidy which helped with it's -e flag to report errors and warnings.