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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 4: Virtual domains
Replacing local accounts with virtual accounts – and understanding the difference
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Disabling functions key shortcuts in XFCE4-terminal
Disabling functions key shortcuts in XFCE4-terminal (so that they’re available for ncurses programs)
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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 3: Opening up to the outside
Testing the limits of local: System user email on a host accessible from the internet
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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 2: Address manipulation
Tweaking a local postfix setup with aliases, .forward and more.
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Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 1: A simple local mail receiving server
Because simple is the best starting point.
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Bluetooth Speakers Switch-on-Connect
As a postscript to my previous post about connecting Bluetooth speakers: Getting PulseAudio to switch to the newly connected speakers as the output (and the device receiving ‘Volume…
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Bluetooth dual-booting: Sharing a bluetooth device between linux and windows
If you’ve used Linux for several years across various devices you are going to run into some hazy déja-vus – the feeling that you’ve been here before, facing…
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My amazing aluminium lunchbox: Using a NUC5i3 as HTPC, web server, cloud server and living room gaming PC
I never did buy that Intel NUC D34010WYKH, the home server upgrade that I recognised some two months back was a completely frivolous investment. I didn’t buy it…
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Talibash
Seriously? Moralizing about the use of colour on a console? Who the Hell are you, the Talibash?
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Why I desperately require and really don’t need an Intel NUC D34010WYKH
This is my tech lust. I desire this consumer object like non-technical people crave the most recent iphone model. I have perfectly serviceable server hardware but it leaves…
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Everything in it’s Right Place 5: Toggles or Now you see it, now you don’t
This is the fifth and final post in a series on achieving an orderly desktop environment in GNOME 3, using no add-ons, only old school hacks. See also…
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NetworkManager and intermittent lags in Steam Home-streaming
Steam in-home streaming is great. I can play graphics/CPU intensive games on my laptop sitting on my couch. Or I can let the (Windows) laptop run Spelunky while…
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Why GNOME keybindings silently resist customization
Note: This relates GNOME Shell 3.10 in Ubuntu 14.04. Other versions may differ and YMMV. The keybindings of GNOME Shell can be changed using the system settings windows…
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The first bit
I was wondering how to explain the concept of a ‘bit’ when the thought struck me that we have a perfect illustration in Genesis, chapter 1: 3 And God…
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Alphanumericalize: Filename munging music file names in ABCDE
Rip-roaring and rigorous
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