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There are a number of tools that will allow you to generate secure passwords including urandom, OpenSSL, GPG and pwgen. I will briefly demo these below. OpenSSL The below generates a random string of 14 […]
nvPY is a fast, simple to use, no fuss, cross-platform note taking application. One of the big benefits is that all your notes are stored somewhere on the cloud – so you don’t need to […]
For me, Shutter is the best open-source screenshot program available for Linux. When I used Windows, I really liked Snagit – Shutter is a good alternative. Installing Shutter Installing Shutter is straight forward enough. However, […]
This can be useful if your working from a LiveCD or testing the network. Note, “temporary” means it will not survive a reboot! To configure networking, adjust the below command for your own environment. ifconfig […]
I configured my kernel as shown here. That was based on the information found here and here. Check out the resources section at the bottom. Because my kernel is good-to-go, I should just need to […]
Contents1 Install NFSv42 Find NFS Shares3 Auto-Mount NFS Shares4 References Install NFSv4 The below command will install with the default USE flags of ipv6, tpcd and nfsv4. emerge –ask nfs-utils Find NFS Shares If you […]
After a little research I have decided to install krusader as my file manager. Installing it should be fairly simple. emerge –ask krusader After seeing the below output… [spoiler] storm ~ # emerge –ask krusader […]
I recently setup Firefox sync on my work machine which runs Ubuntu, then did the same on my home desktop which runs Gentoo. Before I knew it, all my work add-ons appeared on my home […]
Here is how I gain access to my broken environment… mount /dev/mapper/vg–ssd-lv–root /mnt/gentoo/ mount -v /dev/mapper/vg–ssd-lv–boot /mnt/gentoo/boot/ mount -v /dev/mapper/vg–hdd-lv–home /mnt/gentoo/home/ mount -v /dev/mapper/vg–hdd-lv–var /mnt/gentoo/var/ mount -v /dev/mapper/vg–hdd-lv–usrportage /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/ mount -v /dev/mapper/vg–hdd-lv–vhdd /mnt/gentoo/vhdd/ mount -t […]
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