Category Archives: Software

Fixing Alt-Enter maximising XTerm

Using Org-mode, it was incredibly inconvenient when both in FreeBSD and Linux, Alt-Enter, or Alt-Return as XTerm calls it, stole the Alt-Return key combination and just maximised itself. Not sure if this is i3wm related, but could just be that … Continue reading

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Maya and Houdini headless install

Starting a job in the animation industry, I looked into automating the tools Maya and Houdini, Maya apparently being a must for most people (No, I’d never heard of either). Maya consists of an RPM for the application plus three … Continue reading

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Adding a Gmail account to your Mutt

Adding a Gmail IMAP inbox along-side your local mailbox can be useful to have easy access to both personal and work emails. It took a bit of fiddling around, but the recipe below worked for me. In your standard .muttrc, … Continue reading

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Roundcube php7.4 after Debian Bullseye upgrade

I upgraded Debian Buster to Bullseye carefully following the procedure. Part of the procedure includes removing old or no longer used packages, which I think deleted something that was actually needed. Not to worry, I managed to fix it. I … Continue reading

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Only shadow left after exiting sketch in SolidWorks

After upgrading SolidWorks to 2020/21, leaving a sketch left only the shadow on the ground. Hovering the mouse would still show plane outlines in orange though. It turned out to be caused by a graphics performance setting. Disable “Enhanced graphics … Continue reading

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X11 Forwarding problems

Trying to debug and simultaneously trawling Google for a non-trivial version of this issue: $ xclockX11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). I finally cracked it. This was from the outset … Continue reading

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Can’t bosboot on Veritas cluster

I had an AIX Veritas cluster using DMP disk paths which couldn’t run bosboot or much else. Rootvg seemed locked down. The two commands below fixed it. vxdmpadm native enable vgname=rootvg vxdmpadm native release followed by: vxdmpadm native aqcuire These … Continue reading

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Zoneminder upgrade

I recently had to upgrade from Debian Sid to Buster and this seemed to break Zoneminder. The first problem was both PHP 7.0 and 7.3 were now installed and Apache was using 7.0 still. This made going to the Zoneminder … Continue reading

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squidGuard guide

I have used squidGuard for years, but only a basic set-up based on cut-and-paste from their examples. The reason for this is that that is all there is… Examples! squidGuard appears to be impossible to find proper documentation for, as … Continue reading

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