With several machines configured to use OpenLdap for user and group authentication/permissions I was having the problem that the getent and id commands were not returning all the group information. My groups exist in the Ldap directory with members... » More
Just some instructions to remind myself how I got the Minecraft Overviewer working on CentOS. Now create a config file to tell Overviewer where the assets (texture images etc) are: Then run Overviewer telling it the location of your config... » More
There appears to be a few methods for managing a Gitlab installation from the command line. I liked python-gitlab and I installed it onto Linux Mint/Ubuntu as follows: After installation I created a config file: With the content as below but the... » More
I had an odd request today from a guy who had deleted his GitLab project and his local repos. I had been making backups using: and sifting through the backups under /var/opt/gitlab/backups/ I extracted the latest tar and under the... » More
I very luckily got landed with a: Phidgets Board 8/8/8 (1018) Lanbao PR18S-TM10DNO Photoelectric Tripwire Sensor (3525) I wired the Tripwire sensor to the Phidget board as described in the wiring diagram and as shown in the video: I... » More
I had a thousand image files the kids had photographed when creating a stop motion video. An 'auto-levels' on many of the images was required to brighten them up so at the command line I used the following (with ImageMagick already installed of... » More
I've been recommending the slide-down terminal Yakuake to people for some time now and I couldn't live without it myself. Although I use Cinnamon as a desktop I much prefer Yakuake over Guake and can live with the extra RAM usage of the KDE... » More
The PHP packages in the base / epel repositories are very conservative. To opt for something more current the REMI repo can be used. Install the remi-release package (info) first: This will create the remi specific repo files in the... » More
This must be my second or third attempt at Discourse having given up several times before and I may well find reasons to avoid it again. The Discourse advice of just use Ubuntu or using DigitalOcean doesn't cut it for me. One of the problems I ran... » More
On Linux Mint (Ubuntu) I had installed the Arduino IDE from the repository and that had installed version 1.0.5. Despite setting the permissions on the Arduino USB device, the 'Serial Port' option in the IDE menu was greyed out and would not allow for... » More
With several machines configured to use OpenLdap for user and group authentication/permissions I was having the problem that the getent and id commands were not returning all the group information. My groups exist in the Ldap directory with members... » More
