A utility that I use quite a lot on a Gentoo system is called eix. This tool allows me to search for packages by name and list all available flags. The document on the Gentoo Wiki is great and has detailed explanation about it. In this blog post, I’m just going to write down what I did to get it installed. I want to set its flag to use qlite....
A short while back, after exporting my blog from WordPress to Hugo I noticed that there were some weird ^M characters in some files as shown in the following screenshot in blue. This is a special character, CTRL+M and can be removed using sed or vim. Using vim we can replace/substitute a text with the following command: %s/MATCH-TEXT/WITH-NEW-TEXT/g Therefore, we should be able to replace ^M, by typing CTRL+V then CTRL+M, with an empty space as so:...
The first programming language I took when I started my undergraduate study in computer science was C. The second language was C++, taken in the following semester.I really liked C/C++ back then, but I never got a chance to actually use C/C++ in any real-life project. After transfering to the University of Auckland in New Zealand, I had to pick up Java as almost all computer science courses taught in Java back in early 2000....
FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE was released today, and that means it’s time to upgrade 2 of FreeBSD 11.2 machines to this latest version. One of my FreeBSD boxes is a desktop used at work, and the upgrade went well without any issues. In this post, I’m going to document how the upgrade is done on my nas server at home. First ensure that the FreeBSD is up to date: root@nas:~ # freebsd-update fetch src component not installed, skipped Looking up update....
To manage firewalld on a desktop, I use the module created by Craig Dunn available at https://github.com/crayfishx/puppet-firewalld. Recently, I came across this issue for the second time after restarting puppetserver: # puppet agent -vt Info: Using configured environment 'production' Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Loading facts Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement, Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement, Could not autoload puppet/type/firewalld_rich_rule: /etc/puppetlabs/code/modules/firewalld/lib/puppet_x/firewalld/property/rich_rule_action....