Data Scientist by day, geek tech gamer junky by night.
09/29/2018
I tried upgrading Ubuntu to the 18.10 Beta Friday night, all seemed to go well except for when I tried to reboot the desktop wouldn’t load. Tired of looking for a solution I tried installing Manjaro from an iso I have as a working Virtual Box, but each time I tried from a USB I was told corrupt / incomplete file, WTF! So I downloaded it again, check the hash,…
09/09/2018
I knew I’d heard of searching Google from the terminal before, but I try to use Duck Duck Go whenever possible, banging Start Page then Google if DDG doesn’t give me what I need; which is getting less frequent So a search result yesterday returned this awesome useful terminal function DDGR Github with details and destructions found here: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr Features Fast and clean (no ads, stray URLs or clutter), custom…
09/09/2018
I found this simple guide to update the linux kernel, as I’d tried UKUU with no success, as it couldn’t for some reason write to a temp folder Article here: nixCraft: How to install the latest/stable version of Linux kernel on Ubuntu Linux using apt-get Reference of mainline kernels to download from: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ & here’s the code I used download kernel debs wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-headers-4.18.7-041807_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_all.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-headers-4.18.7-041807-generic_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_amd64.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-modules-4.18.7-041807-generic_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_amd64.deb wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.18.7/linux-image-unsigned-4.18.7-041807-generic_4.18.7-041807.201809090930_amd64.deb…
I’ve a couple of ideas for simple games, and after doing a little research decided on giving Unity a try as a platform, and C# as a language. I was reluctant at first as I found I could only get it to work on Windows… in hindsight I could have probably used a Virtual Box, or even Wine, but there’s still time to change. Python was my first choice, although…
07/15/2017
An intro to crontab with some interesting examples: blog.davidsingleton.org
01/21/2016
linux spoof mac address does what it says on the tin, although not sure why you would need this or if there is a root free Android version 😉
yubikey-neo + KeyPassX + KeyPassDroid + OwnCloud portable secure password vault Searching through F-Droid for yubico I came across a link to KeyPassDroid; I’d come across a password safe solution on the yubico site using KeyPass, but was shied away as it mentioned the premium version… I don’t mind paying for shit, although if I can solve the issue with free open source alternatives I’ll spend hours trying 🙂 So…
10/13/2014
I only got into 0AD a couple of months back, and here’s a serious free update 🙂 Full details here: webupd8 Notable changes in 0 A.D. Alpha 17 “Quercus”: Major Core Combat Rebalance: if you send only one unit type to battle, it fares poorly against regiments of the same size that mix more than one type, e.g. melee and ranged units; technologies as a whole have been made more…
10/06/2014
I was playing about installing yet another Linux flavour via VirtualBox; CrunchBang. I’ve been a fan of Slackware for a while, so thought I’d give it a try. It was a pleasent surprise, it worked well from boot, with a nice installation script that gives the option to install all of the bells and whistles extras. It’s feels light, but in a lumbuntu sort of way; not short on functions,…
06/16/2014
Useful Linux command line string to show current DNS server: nm-tool | tail -n 8