Tag: Linux

This article describes how to setup a dialog for selecting what browser to use when opening a link in typical Linux desktop environments. The dialog is created with Zenity from a bash script. It shows up every time a URL is clicked from a non-browser application.

This guide explains how to set up a simple NGINX autoindex directory listing page behind HTTP digest authentication and a self-signed HTTPS certificate. The goal is to set up a "poor man's" directory listing with minimal dependencies and bare minimum authentication and HTTPS features.

This article describes a way to use Docker containers as lightweight virtual machines suitable for building software. Containerizing build environments makes it possible to build with different Linux distributions and to isolate the build environment from the host system, with only a negligible performance penalty.

This is a guide for installing AWStats on an Ubuntu 20.04 server for website analytics of multiple virtual hosts served by Nginx.

AWStats is a venerable log analyzer going all the way back to year 2000. But it is still one of the better free web analytics solutions that …

Using Git as an experienced hg / Mercurial user can be frustrating. I can say that from personal experience. There is no free GUI for Git that match the power and ease of use of TortoiseHg workbench, and some terms in Git just annoy hg users to no end, like what …

The clipboard cut, copy and paste functions can be a great timesaver when organizing files.

But there didn't seem to be an obvious way to use those functions with the command line in Linux while targeting the main clipboard of the desktop environment such that files can be transferred between …

This post is about a little script I wrote named: hashstress. It's intended for stressing and testing the correctness of disk I/O, cache, memory and processing subsystems for an extended period of time. The basic idea is to generate files with random content and repeatedly calculate hash checksums verifying …

This post is about micetune, a Python script I wrote for setting individual pointer speeds for different mouse devices in Linux, with the ability to reduce the speed beyond what the control center setting allows. The script changes the real pointer speed without involving acceleration.