Since I’m using AwesomeWM as my WM of choice and I try to keep my app list to minimal, I don’t really have graphical PDF client such as Evince. Instead, for my PDF reading requirements Zathura is a perfect fit. This all works fine when I’m specifying zathura FILENAME either
Those familiar with PostgreSQL know how it internally manages blocks for storing data and how when you delete some entry it is only marked dead (dead tuples). In order to reclaim space VACUUM needs to be run. Vacuuming database won’t give that space back to the operating system, instead, it
I’ve been hosting my Gitlab instance for some time now. Gives me the freedom of experimenting with various features and also forces me to learn a thing or two about it. Install I currently have has been done via installation from source. Reason for that was that Omnibus package has
When apache reports no space left on device: couldn’t create accept lock and you’ve checked both disk space and inode usage of disk and they both report as fine check active semaphores: ipcs -s If there’s high number of them, Apache probably hasn’t cleared up after itself and some semaphores
Recently I started experimenting with Flatpak. Mainly trying to use it for day-to-day apps like Slack or Skype. Flatpak applications are usually started by launching: You can see that this can quickly get pretty messy. Flatpak does provide the “.desktop” file for each of the application, and if you’re using
First off, what is kexec? – It is a system call that enables you to load and boot into another kernel from currently running kernel. That effectively means; doing reboot without going through the whole POST/Firmware load process. To use kexec we can rely on systemd to handle process for
Ever since I’ve set up EFI boot on my machine using grub I had this issue with timeout option not wanting to go away. Digging into the issue I first looked at /boot/grub/grub.cfg where I found this piece of code: “This is weird” I said to myself, where does that
My main rig is running Ubuntu 18.04. To be more precise I opted out at install time to use Ubuntu Mate 18.04 but later on installed AwesomeWM and use that instead now. But without digressing much, I decided it was time to move my root (/) to ZFS. Why? –
Recently I’ve been tasked to set up Confluence server installation. One of my friends was in need and I decided it would be nice to play a bit with the whole setup. As this is pro-bono and really not quite production install (meaning they use it, but it is not
URxvt, or if you wish to call it rxvt-unicode, has this weird thing turned on by default where it binds ctrl+shift keys to all sorts of insanity (keycap picture insert mode and stuff like that). Dammit, I want my “normal” terminal behavior back! By “normal” I think that if I
