I’m a Firefox user, have been for years. Updates are happening hard and fast, and as such sometimes – and I guess inevitably – things stop working they way they used to before an update. Did I mention I genuinely and passionately HATE updates? Well one such update recently meant that Firefox no longer opens … Read more
I’ve been playing with various configurations of my software RAID and thought I’d start again from scratch. The obvious question then was, how would I remove my previous efforts? This seems to be different depending on the distribution, so here’s what worked for me in Fedora 33. I’m assuming here that my RAID is /dev/md1. … Read more
I just had an annoying issue in which I’ve deleted a large number of files (about 1000 or so, across two folders), and OneDrive kept bringing them back a few seconds later. No matter where I’ve deleted the files (either of my PC’s, my Mac or the cloud), they kept re-appearing. I read a tip … Read more
CTRL + F will let us find (and replace) text in the current open file. Often we need to drill deeper and find a phrase that’s hidden in another file in the current workspace. We can do this in one of two ways: either, click on the little search icon at the top left, then … Read more
Since version 26 of OBS we have that wonderful built-in Virtual Camera option. This lets us use the OBS video output with external apps that do the streaming for us, like Zoom, Skype and Discord to name a few. Video processing takes a small amount of time, and as a result our audio arrives too … Read more
In my previous article I’ve explained how to setup a software RAID with mdadm. This was a RAID 5 setup with 3 drives, and in this article we’ll take a look how to expand it with a 4th drive, increasing its overall size. Here’s what we’ll do in principle: Getting the new drive ready Let’s … Read more
In this article I’ll explain how to setup a software RAID on Fedora. This will turn any number of attached USB drives into any flavour of RAID without the necessity of a dedicated enclosure. I’m using this setup for internal office data storage with redundancy, together with a Samba share. This works on any Linux … Read more
I was surprised to find that the mail command doesn’t work out of the box in Fedora, nor in the minimal installation of CentOS 7. Thankfully there’s an easy way to add it by installing the mailx package. yum install mailx That’s not the full story on how to send email from the command line … Read more
