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Too good to #0001
Set X11 keyboard layout manually and temporarily (e.g. in i3 if I need to test exotic window managers for my users) Speaking of which, set keyboard layout permanently in Gnome Check if Gnome Screensaver is active (I use this for … Continue reading
Ab jetzt offiziell alt
Da ich mit meinen 48 Jahren seit kurzem Hörgeräte trage und immer wieder die selben Fragen und Geschichten höre, will ich mal aufschreiben, wie das so gelaufen ist. Prolog Im Jahr 2004 operierte ich im Alter von 32 Jahren am … Continue reading
Aggressive NTP configuration on Windows 10
While clicking around on time.is, which has a nice Esperanto translation that you may want to to check out, I kept running into large-ish time offsets of at least several tenths of a second on a Windows 10 machine. As … Continue reading
3 Monate Alienware m15
Nachdem mein Macbook Pro auch schon wieder mehr als 4 Jahre auf dem Buckel hatte, musste ich langsam akzeptieren, dass das nächste kein Macbook mehr sein konnte. Ungelöste Mechanikprobleme an den aktuellen Tastaturen, fehlende Esc-Taste, und das ganze, da es … Continue reading
“Commands that show your Wifi passwords” roundup
With a hint of sensationalism, @DynamicWebPaige asks: Did you know that “netsh wlan show profile” shows every network your computer has ever connected to? And “key=clear” shows the *passwords*? No, I didn’t, and to be frank, I don’t care. But … Continue reading
IPv6 Privacy Stable Addressing Roundup
“Okay, let’s see whether we can reach your Macbook externally via IPv6. What’s the address?” Sure, let’s have a look. $ ifconfig … inet6 2a03:2260:a:b:8aa:22bf:7190:ef36 prefixlen 64 autoconf secured inet6 2a03:2260:a:b:b962:5127:c7ec:d2df prefixlen 64 autoconf temporary … Everybody knows that one … Continue reading
Debian /boot old kernel images
So I was looking at yet another failed apt-get upgrade because /boot was full. After my initial whining on Twitter, I immediately received a hint towards /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels, which gets generated from /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal after the installation of new kernel images. The … Continue reading
How expiration dates in the shadow file really work
tl;dr: Accounts expire as soon as UTC reaches the expiration date. In today‘s installment of my classic shame-inducing series “UNIX basics for UNIX professionals”, I want to talk about account (and password) expiration in /etc/shadow on Linux. The expiration time … Continue reading