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A while back I posted an instruction on how to change the font size in urxvt (terminal emulator) on the fly. In that post, I used a perl extension from https://github.com/simmel/urxvt-resize-font. Tonight, I tried to setup this extension on a brand new laptop running Fedora 28. For some reason, it doesn’t work at all. Luckily, I found another perl extension which works quite well. Here’s how I got it working on this Fedora 28, with Sway tiling windows manager (instead of i3 because I run Wayland with this Fedora 28)....

FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE was released a few days ago. This means it’s time to upgrade the FreeBSD running on my nas. For the most part, this was all what I did: After it’s been upgraded, I also need to update the Zpool. Let’s upgrade the zpool as suggested: Next is to update the boot code. If for whatever reason you’re following this step to update zpool (zroot) on your FreeBSD, make sure you know what is your boot disk is....

With fresh installation of Fedora 28 I wasn’t able to play any downloaded Japanese animations with the default movie player – Dragon player. My other machine which also runs Fedora 28 could play the movie fine. Without any doubts I must have installed some additional codecs on that machine. But which codecs? Like last time, Google I must search. I’m going to write this post so I wouldn’t have to repeatedly search for the same solution....

To reload tmux’s config without quitting and starting it again, we can hit Ctrl + B then :. Once the we get the prompt just run: :source-file ~/.tmux.conf Ref: https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/reloading-tmux-config/

Tonight I started to review the learning material for Red Hat System Administration III to prepare for RHCSE exam. I need a machine with GUI, and all my CentOS 7 VMs are headless. So let’s install the GUI on it, shall I? First install epel repo, if it’s not yet installed: Then install the 2 groups: Tip, if “I” can’t remember the names of the groups, I can run this command to list all available groups:...