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Installing Brave Browser on Manjaro i3
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Installing Rambox on Arch Linux
Rambox is a great tool that brings many many email and messaging clients into one single program. I currently use it for Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram and Outlook 365 and Hotmail. Previously I had installed it […]
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Installing Terraform
Arch Linux Installing terraform on Arch Linux variants is pretty straightforward. Its available here and supported in their standard repository. You can test that worked with: CentOS 7 Unfortunately the situation is not quite as […]
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Command Line Broadband Speed Test
We’re all used to using online broadband speed tests from our desktops to test our internet speeds – but what about from a Linux server without a GUI browser? My favourite tool for this purpose […]
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Manjaro i3: Black screen and unable to login
I recently updated Manjaro i3 and was surprised that on the next reboot I was locked out. I was met by a black screen after the Grub menu and it just seemed to hang. I […]
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Installing aws-cli on Arch Linux
You can either install aws-cli from the official repository…. …or aws-cli-git from the AUR. To configure, you’ll need to create a public and private access key. For testing purposes, I created a new one for […]
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Using a Dark Theme with nvpy
If you’re having issues with the theme where you can’t easily read some text because its either too light or too dark against the background – you may simply need to pull in the latest […]
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nvpy Failed to Start after Upgrade
nvpy is available in the AUR and if you use a AUR helper like yaourt, you can install with: After upgrading today, it no longer starts: There doesn’t seem to be a simplenote package available […]
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Usable IP Range from CIDR Notation
Occasionally I need to find the usable IP address range given a particular CIDR notation. Usually I use an online calculator but today I found a better Linux based CLI tool, sipcalc, which save me […]
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The time Command on Arch Linux
Okay so I don’t really understand how the time command appears to be both installed and not installed at the same time but I thought I’d post it here in case it save someone some […]