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  • No Title: Working around the missing –title parameter in Gnome Terminal

    About a year ago the Gnome developers took away the option to run Gnome terminal with the –title parameter. This allowed you to give the terminal window a custom name like ‘SSH@MYBOX’ or ‘myProject’ instead of just ‘Terminal’. Why did they do that? I don’t know. It seems to just be what Gnome developers do…

  • Decrypting drives using the command line

    Encrypted USB drives are fairly easy to use on most linux desktops. Whatever automount supplier you’re running with will pop up a dialogue window asking for the password to decrypt. But what if you want to use the terminal? The use case for this is my server/HTPC which has a backup drive permanently attached to…

  • They finally let us: Trying out the Let’s Encrypt beta

    “Greetings from Let’s Encrypt, mail@brokkr.net.” Greetings to you too. It’s been quite a wait so I guess a bit of formality is in order. Now, can we please stop saying “Let’s” and just encrypt already?

  • Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 5: Relaying from the local network

    Understanding how Postfix makes decisions regarding relay, i.e. whether or not to pass on the mail submitted to it.

  • Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 4: Virtual domains

    Replacing local accounts with virtual accounts – and understanding the difference

  • Disabling functions key shortcuts in XFCE4-terminal

    Disabling functions key shortcuts in XFCE4-terminal (so that they’re available for ncurses programs)  

  • 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

  • Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 2: Address manipulation

    Tweaking a local postfix setup with aliases, .forward and more.

  • Let’s do Postfix slowly and properly – Part 1: A simple local mail receiving server

    Because simple is the best starting point.

  • 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 Up/Down’ directions from media keys) is simply adding a line to the default pulseaudio profile. Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa, add this line and reboot: load-module module-switch-on-connect

  • 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 this problem, getting that error. But it’s been so long that your bookmarks and notes about it are long gone, not to mention any recollection of how…

  • 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 because I bought the new 2015 Broadwell-based model instead. All told I spent 5000 DKR (~€670/$750) on the thing plus components and accessories. So let’s get to…

  • Talibash

    Seriously? Moralizing about the use of colour on a console? Who the Hell are you, the Talibash?

  • 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 me cold. I want something that I can get excited about. This is an Intel NUC D34010WYKH and it’s small, fast, power efficient, expandable and sexy. Throwing…

  • 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 the first, second, third, and fourth post in the series. So far we’ve covered static workspaces, windows spawning on designated workspaces and starting and moving between the…