How to find the motherboard model on Windows 10

To find the motherboard model number on Windows (10), run cmd, and type: C:\Users\kenno>wmic baseboard get product,Manufacturer,version,serialnumber Manufacturer Product SerialNumber Version Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z170N-Gaming 5 To be filled by O.E.M. x.x Ref & credit: How to Find Computer and Motherboard Model Serial Number on Windows 10

January 14, 2018 · 1 min · 48 words · kenno

How to set system locale on Ubuntu 16.04

TLDR; just follow this guide. At home I run DHCP and DNS servers on Odroid U3, a system on a chip (SoC) computer. This allows me to have lots of control over my home network and most importantly – fun. I also run some web sites and Postgresql databases for testing purposes. The SoC computer runs Ubuntu 16.04 as the operating system. Recently, the Odroid U3 died. A coworker also has an SoC, an Odroid XU4. But, he found no use of it so I bought it off him at a very good price. This new SoC will replace the Odroid U3. ...

December 31, 2017 · 2 min · 397 words · kenno

Change the urxvt font size on the fly

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. ...

December 24, 2017 · 2 min · 349 words · kenno

ZFS on Linux is now available for Fedora 27

My main machine at home has been upgraded from Fedora 26 to 27 since the day the 27 was released. Everything has been working great, except the ZFS file system. I’m a ZFS-believer and I store my important files on ZFS-based storage. For a while there was no repository for Fedora 27 provided by zfsonlinux, until 6 days ago. I have been using packages provided for Fedora 26 as work around solution. If you’ve been using the ZFS packages for Fedora 26, you can upgrade to the ones for Fedora 27 now. ...

December 19, 2017 · 1 min · 104 words · kenno

How to remove a copr repository in Fedora

This is just a quick note to remind myself how to remove a Copr repository. What’s a Copr? “Copr (Cool Other Package Repo) is a Fedora project to help make building and managing third party package repositories easy.” – https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Copr. Why do I want to remove it? One of the Copr repo I added a while back seemed to be no longer working, so I wanted to remove it. # dnf update --refresh Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'tcg-themes', disabling. Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:00 ago on Fri 08 Dec 2017 11:12:45 AM AEDT. Dependencies resolved. Nothing to do. Complete! To list all repos on Fedora (27): ...

December 11, 2017 · 1 min · 207 words · kenno