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urxvt or unicode-rxvt is a terminal simulator like Gnome-terminal or Konsole. Recently I’m trying to switch to use i3 (i3-gaps), a tiling windows manager, and urxvt is good compliment to i3. Unlike Gnome-terminal or Konsole, the font name and size for urxvt are configured in ~/.Xresources. To make change to font size, for example, I’d edit ~/.Xresources, reload it with xrdb ~/.Xresources, and finally close and re-open urxvt itself. Though there is no built-in function to allow changing font size on the fly, urxvt allows us to do this via extensions....

Work recently acquired a few MacBook laptops to be used and shared by staff. Though the computing staff is not expected to have immense knowledge about OS X, when things break down we are the first point of contact. The last time I used a Mac machine extensively was around 2007. Then I switched to Debian and could never look back. Anyway, there must be lot of new things and I’ll try document or post snippets here as I learn new things....

The other day, after successfully building Docker-ce 17.06.0-dev for Odroid C2 which has ARMv8 CPU, i couldn’t find Docker client. Maybe it was just me not building the Docker engine correctly. Anyway, after some more times, I also managed building the Docker client for the Odroid C2. It turned out, like many things, it wasn’t that hard after you figured it out. It’s worth to note too that the build instruction on https://github....

Before getting into how to change a user’s password on FreeBSD, let’s have a quick revision on how that can be done on a Linux system. As a user we can change the password by typing: Or with a root account, we can change/set the password for another user: How about a FreeBSD? It should be the same way as how it’s done on Linux right? Right? Well, not quite....

Sure, you Linux gurus must be laughing at me to see this post. However, this is my 2nd time needing to remove a user’s password and I had to Google for it! So here is just a quick tip to mind your truly: In case you’re wondering why I need to remove a password for an account, it’s for my 4 year old daughter who enjoys playing supertuxcart. She wants to have her own user account on a Fedora 24 box without a password....