-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Can’t delete a macOS user with dscl [resolution] – it.megocollector.com on When you “can’t” delete a user in MacOS
- morsing on Starting tactic script for CPU allocation calculations on POWER9/10
- morsing on Adding a Gmail account to your Mutt
- morsing on AIX IRC channel moving home
- morsing on AIX IRC channel moving home
Archives
- October 2023
- August 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- December 2022
- November 2022
- October 2022
- September 2022
- April 2022
- December 2021
- October 2021
- June 2021
- May 2021
- March 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- November 2020
- June 2020
- November 2019
- May 2019
- August 2017
- July 2017
- January 2016
- June 2013
- April 2013
- November 2012
- March 2012
Categories
Meta
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
Posted in Software
Leave a comment
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
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
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
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
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
Posted in AIX, Software
Tagged LDR_PRELOAD, X11 Forwarding, xauth, xauth authentication
Leave a comment
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
Posted in AIX, Software
Leave a comment
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
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
Posted in Software
Leave a comment