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  • Make samba fast

    June 7, 2023

    Samba’s default settings are defined with security and compatibility in mind. In the modern world, we can trade off compatibility and some security for faster speed.

  • GRUB2: add custom font with secureboot

    May 29, 2023

    In the latest versions of GRUB2, loading unsigned custom fonts have been disabled when secureboot is active. So we need a workaround.

  • CMake Cheat sheet

    May 8, 2023

    Various useful commands when dealing with CMakeLists.txt

  • FFmpeg useful commands

    April 4, 2023

    Various ffmpeg commands that can prove useful

  • Login into GNOME desktop remotely

    March 5, 2023

    Sometimes you need to start a computer remotely and login into the desktop. For example, to get the autostart programs running as your local user running.

  • AutoHotKey: Allow UI access to administrative programs

    February 9, 2023

    Normally, AHK scripts can’t interact with programs that were launched with Administrator access. So there is a need for a workaround

  • Linux kernel incremental patch

    February 2, 2023

    How to download incremental patch to Linux kernel from any version

  • Essential GNOME extensions

    December 25, 2022

    GNOME desktop is practically unusable by itself. here’s a list of extensions to make it more bearable.

  • Linux kernel makefile env variables of interest

    December 18, 2022

    Interesting environment variables to make use of when compiling Linux

  • udisks2: Using the ntfs3 driver

    November 13, 2022

    When using the ntfs3 driver, first added to Linux kernel version 5.15 you might encounter an error

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