Quick notes

Random Notes

• Preview a font: gm display </path/to/font> or display </path/to/font> Dark | Basic C roguelike | https://github.com/Zireael07/dark OOC | Object-Oriented programming with ANSI-C | https://github.com/shichao-an/ooc.git

gcp (Try alias cpv=”rsync -pogr –progress” or alias cpv=”rsync -P” or alias cpv=“rsync -ah –progress”)

• Proxmox:

  $ cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ $ cp pve-enterprise.list pve-no-subscription.list $ vi pve-no-subscription.list deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve xxx pve-no-subscription Then disable pve-enterprise

  vi /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js

  Change Ext.Msg.show({ (followed by No valid subscription) with void({ // Ext.Msg.show({

  systemctl restart pveproxy.service

• Get weather using finger:

  finger @graph.no finger @graph.no # get help

Miscellaneous

• Set default colors on all terminals

#!/bin/sh
#
# /sbin/mygetty
setterm -fore <color> -bold <on|off> -back <color> -store > $1
exec /sbin/agetty $@

• Send linux kernel messages to a specific virtual console
  • Use console=ttyX kernel boot option
• View encrypted DVDs
  • sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
• Burn an ISO to disc
  • cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 <file.iso>
• Connect to Windows share

$ apt install cifs-utils # Needed to mount share
$ apt install smbclient # Helpful for troubleshooting
$ mkdir /mnt/<mountpoint>
$ chmod 755 /mnt/<mountpoint>
$ echo '//<host>/<share> <mountpoint> cifs noauto,user,credentials=<credsfile>,uid=<username>,gid=<username>,dir_mode=0775,file_mode=0664 0 0' >> /etc/fstab
$ cat << END > <credsfile>
> username=<username>
> password=<password>
> END
$ chmod 600 <credsfile>

• X11 server: VcXrv - DO NOT allow firewall access on public networks

Colorschemes

• Solarized (tmux, vim, mutt, putty, dircolors, shell)
• PuTTY: www.frankshin.com/putty-changing-color-scheme
• ciembor.github.io/4bit
• www.blaenkdenum.com

WSL Setup

• https://dev.to/bowmanjd/install-fedora-on-windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl-4b26
• https://medium.com/javarevisited/using-wsl-2-with-x-server-linux-on-windows-a372263533c3

Ubuntu Setup Notes

GitHub CLI (Ubuntu)

$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key C99B11DEB97541F0
$ sudo apt-add-repository https://cli.github.com/packages
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install gh

fd-find Notes

• need to use -o Dpkg::Options:: something to delete a file ripgrep leaves behind

Other

Hide tab bar in Firefox

• Create CSS file to hide tab bar:

$ mkdir ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.jbrubake/chrome
$ echo '#TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse !important; }' > ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.jbrubake/chrome/userChrome.css

• Enable custom CSS:
  • Go to about:config
  • Enable Toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets

Custom Magic Wormhole

Send: wormhole --relay-url=ws://<url>:4000/v1 --transit-helper=tcp:<url>:4001 send <file> Receive: wormhole --relay-url=ws://<url>:4000/v1 --transit-helper=tcp:<url>:4001 receive