Shallow Thoughts : : linux
Akkana's Musings on Open Source Computing and Technology, Science, and Nature.
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
I maintain quite a few small websites. I have several of my own under
different domains (shallowsky.com, nmbilltracker.com and so forth),
plus a few smaller projects like flask apps running on a different port.
In addition, I maintain websites for several organizations on a volunteer
basis (because if you join any volunteer organization and they find out
you're at all technical, that's the first job they want you to do).
I typically maintain a local copy of each website, so I can try out
any change locally first.
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Tags: web, shell, programming
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16:18 Feb 22, 2024
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Tue, 26 Dec 2023
In October I wrote about making a
Windows 10 that Boots off a USB Stick,
From Linux.
A Debian update today or yesterday (Merry Christmas!) broke that
and I spent a few hours today chasing that down.
There's a package called ovmf
that puts BIOS/firmware
related files
in /usr/share/OVMF/. The command I used in the earlier article
included the flag -bios /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd
but as of today, -bios
apparently doesn't work any more
with any of the files there.
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Tags: linux, windows, virtualization, qemu, debian
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Fri, 06 Oct 2023
Last year I wrote about my efforts to
share
files in QEMU between a Linux host and Windows guest.
Someone in the comments pointed me to WinFSP and WinSSHFS,
and I was able to get file sharing working that way, after
installing both those packages on the Windows guest.
But I recently found a much easier way, using QEMU's built-in SMB handler.
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Tags: virtualization, QEMU, linux, samba
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Sun, 01 Oct 2023
In 2019, I wrote about struggling to get any sort of Windows booting off
an external USB stick, in order to
Install Lenovo Firmware Packaged as a .exe on a Linux Machine.
I ended up needing to borrow a real Windows machine and install Rufus
on it.
In 2023, things are much better. Aki at atkdinosaurus has written a
clear, concise tutorial on that topic:
How to create a Windows 10 installation on a USB stick in UEFI mode.
I love that it's all command-line, so you can duplicate the steps exactly.
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Tags: linux, windows, virtualization, qemu, debian
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Thu, 28 Sep 2023
My search for a good desktop Mastodon client has led me down a path
that involved learning some fun ways to interact with existing
browser windows on Linux with X programs like
xdotool and wmctrl.
Like many people, I've switched from The App Formerly Known As Twitter
to Mastodon (where I'm
@akkana@fosstodon.org).
But the next question was which Mastodon app to use.
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Tags: linux, firefox, browsers, python, X11, window managers, openbox
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Fri, 25 Aug 2023
When I wrote about
Getting Linux System Notifications under Openbox,
I ended up tossing out the whole notification system and using zenity
to pop up a dialog directly. Specifically, a command like
XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0 zenity --title "Hello" --info --text="Hello world"
But customizing zenity to make it more attention-getting turned out to
be more difficult than expected ...
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Mon, 21 Aug 2023
I've been a fan of Linux's lightweight window managers, particularly
Openbox, for many years.
But admittedly, there are some things they don't generally handle.
One of those is system notifications.
Mostly, I've been happy to go without notifications. Firefox is
forever asking me whether I want to turn them on for particular websites
(which wouldn't work, but Firefox doesn't know that), usually websites
I'm visiting for the first time and probably don't ever want to visit again,
let alone let them spam me with ads as notifications outside my browser.
But every now and then it would be handy.
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Tags: linux, openbox, window managers
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Tue, 08 Aug 2023
A few days ago I wrote about finding a way to
triage
videos by adding captions to mplayer. Better than nothing, but I
really wanted something like
pho or
MetaPho where I could
add the tags in the program itself, rather than keeping notes on a
piece of paper.
Turns out it wasn't that hard using VLC's Python bindings.
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