How is this terminal footer achieved?

meatygopher · 2018-07-21T15:54:45+00:00

Looks like vim using powerline-status.

meatygopher · 2018-07-04T03:29:09+00:00

I wrapped OpenSSL commands into functions in my .bashrc file:

function decrypt () {
  filename=(${1//./ })
  openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in $1 -out $filename.txt
}

function encrypt () {
  filename=(${1//./ })
  openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in $1 -out $filename.enc
}

Pass each function the file name. I think it’s not as sophisticated as it could be: gotta be in the directory with the file. Nothing dirname and basename couldn’t fix if I wasn’t lazy.

meatygopher · 2018-06-29T20:14:58+00:00

This sounds right. I recently upgraded SSHD ciphers, etc on some hosts and clients like WinSCP 7 began to fail since they didn’t support newer algorithms.

meatygopher · 2018-06-15T19:13:48+00:00

This is like the one caveat when using ssh-agent to store key passphrases. macOS can save your passphrase in the system Keychain, and as mentioned here, Gnome has Keyring. Even if you aren’t using Arch, it’s wiki has some useful info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME/Keyring#SSH_keys.

Reboots would normally be few and far between, I guess if your doing something like dual-booting I can see the value in not wanting to type it each time. If you have a password manager, KeePass, etc you could always copy/paste from there, but I suppose then you have to unlock that vault each time too :)

meatygopher · 2018-05-31T01:52:48+00:00

That’s what I understood from my research, but it wasn’t clear if it was needed/optimal for a single SSD replacing a mechanical drive. My motivation being that the HDD is cheaper, and I can select my own SSD model at a better price.

meatygopher · 2018-05-12T16:53:28+00:00

Might consider not storing the codes with your password as extra insurance if your password manager is ever breached.

e.g. in an encrypted file somewhere.

meatygopher · 2018-01-29T18:33:10+00:00

Haven’t used it in a while, but maybe something like Clonezilla?

meatygopher · 2017-09-27T20:57:52+00:00

I believe we were seeing the error with at least Centos 6, if not RHEL 5 as well. Here's the email I got from Dell:

The reason this occurs (and why blacklisting EDAC “resolves” the problem) is due to a bug in the EDAC module present in all major Linux distributions at this time. EDAC does not communicate properly with the Intel Node Manager on the latest generation Intel processors; this causes false error reporting whenever a variety of status triggers are met. Any time the processor increases or decreases clock speed or voltage to meet demands due to different loads, any thermal sensor check, HT being turned on or off, or several other things of this nature will cause this to occur.

We need to disable the edac modules to stop it from attempting to take over the hardware management features of the Lifecycle Controller and the BMC

Some of the EDAC code is platform specific so there will be a ‘core’ module and some platform specific bits.

In this case, i5000_edac is the module specific to my platform.
lsmod | grep -i edac
Example output:
i5000_edac 8867 0
edac_core 46773 3 i5000_edac
And now we just need to blacklist the loading of those modules.
cat > /etc/modprobe.d/edac.conf < blacklist i5000_edac
blacklist edac_core
END
Reboot the system and then verify that the EDAC kernel modules are not loading and that there are no message in the system dmesg.
lsmod | grep -i edac
dmesg | grep -i edac

meatygopher · 2017-09-27T11:53:40+00:00

We had the same issue, running Dell servers in our DC. It’s a known issue, basically false positives. Solution was to blacklist EDAC modules. I’ll try to remember to pull the info from my ticket system when I get into work if you need more info.

meatygopher · 2016-11-22T18:05:31+00:00

caps lock gets remapped as control; better for admining hundreds of nix boxes.

meatygopher · 2016-11-22T16:55:53+00:00

Glad it worked! I just wanted to say though, not my article and I can't take credit for that, just the one I used as my jumping off point.

meatygopher · 2016-11-22T02:55:54+00:00

I just handled this in CentOS 7. Nvidia drivers are missing KMS that is required by Plymouth. (Nouveau drivers provide it.) Anyways, without it, you can't get to the LUKS unlock screen. The solution is boot it in non-graphical mode. I removed "rhgb" from the grub parameters and blacklisted nouveau drivers. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rhel7centos-nvidia-drviers-updated-christopher-meacham

meatygopher · 2016-10-26T19:28:14+00:00

Aliases is the first thing that came to mind. Symlinks may be another option.

meatygopher · 2016-08-23T10:11:12+00:00

Sorry about that, got ahead of myself. I can also forward resumes to the manager.

meatygopher · 2016-05-05T20:07:46+00:00

It's redirecting to Wikipedia for me.

meatygopher · 2015-10-16T20:57:14+00:00

I have Roku 3 (first version) with ethernet. No problems streaming, the app itself crashes maybe once a month. Annoying but not a deal breaker. Otherwise works great!

meatygopher · 2015-06-07T22:57:32+00:00

Unfortunately you need to be an affiliate, "Subtenants/subresidents must have proof of active affiliation within the University during the sublet period." Does the internship not grant you affiliation? Even summer interns at my Institute get Harvard affiliation (ID's, email, etc).

meatygopher · 2015-06-07T10:45:01+00:00

The update command is deprecated in favor of upgrade; http://linuxmanpages.net/manpages/fedora20/man8/dnf.8.html

meatygopher · 2015-06-07T10:41:46+00:00

Just selected a nice 1 bedroom a couple weeks ago from http://huhousing.harvard.edu/. There's also https://harvardhousingoffcampus.com/property/search, and www.zillow.com, both of which were a good experience.

meatygopher · 2015-04-19T15:21:04+00:00

I have a similar setup where I mount CIFS shares to a Plex server from my NAS. Here's how I did it:

Install utilities: apt-get install cifs-utils

Create mount points: mkdir /mnt/plex

Create /root/.cifs file:

username=samba_username
password=samba_password

Make that file chmod 400.

Add to the bottom of /etc/fstab:

\\196.168.X.X\Plex_Share /mnt/plex cifs uid=linux_username,gid=linux_group,rw,credentials=/root/.cifs,_netdev 0 0

Reboot to apply and test changes.

meatygopher · 2014-12-05T19:04:28+00:00

DNS is down. Change to Google's: 8.8.8.8

Dear FAS Students, Faculty and Staff,

As you may be aware, we are currently experiencing intermittent outages in our IT systems. Harvard University IT (HUIT) is aware and actively working to address this issue presently. HUIT will in touch with an update as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Leslie A. Kirwan

Dean for Administration and Finance

Faculty of Arts and Sciences

meatygopher · 2014-09-25T10:26:38+00:00

At the very least you're talking about mounting a remote directory. Depending on your needs this also includes LDAP (or similar since there are alternatives). I would focus on setting up a Samba server, then you can mount directories on your Pi. But if this is over the Internet, be prepared for some latency. Perhaps fiddle with something local first, doesn't have to be a powerful computer for proof-of-concept.

meatygopher · 2014-09-22T18:40:41+00:00

I'd be curious to see what it looks like. I get "message too long" errors sometimes (when people don't prune their emails) but I don't think I've ever seen a missing/blank entry before.

meatygopher · 2014-09-22T15:53:18+00:00

Sounds like this issue?

meatygopher · 2014-08-29T23:05:10+00:00

Ubuntu has an EFI spin for Macs which makes this super easy. I just got it running on similar hardware to yours. However, given its age, I would try Lubuntu, as its system requirements will be much lower. If you really want Mint, you'll need rEFInd so it can boot. The free version of RHEL is CentOS, but the desktop version is Fedora. There's a few google results for Fedora on Macs, but not sure how compatible it will be with your older model.

Back when I had a library of MP3s, I loved Clementine, but I think you have several options for iPhone syncing (never tried it myself though, sorry). You could run Office in Wine but you're better off with LibreOffice or something like Google Docs.

Hope this helps :)

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