Adjusting Firefox DPI

On a few of my computers with 4K monitors running Linux, Firefox either display with tiny fonts or very large fonts, while most applications behave normally. After searching for a work around, I found the following solution works for me: setting the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to a smaller number, e.g. 0.7. From this this page: You can set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.0 (default is -1) on the about:config page. Adjust its value in 0....

May 4, 2024 · 1 min · 156 words · kenno

ipcalc - Perform simple operations on IP addresses and networks

Tonight I just stumbled on a command line tool or utility called ipcacl. This tool is used to perform operations on IP addresses and networks. On Fedora, ipcalc is provided by ipcacl package. If you on a different distro, search for ipcaclc, there should be a similar package name. ➜ rpm -q ipcalc ipcalc-1.0.3-9.fc40.x86_64 Here are some examples of what we can use this utility for, though I encourage you to run man ipcalc to learn more what you can do with it....

May 2, 2024 · 1 min · 143 words · kenno

Deploy metrics-server in Kubernetes using Helm

This is a short note on how to install metrics-server using Helm on my k8s cluster. $ kubectl version Client Version: v1.29.3 Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3 Server Version: v1.29.3 $ helm version --short v3.14.4+g81c902a Before we can install the chart, we will need to add the metrics-server repo to Helm. $ helm repo add metrics-server https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/metrics-server/ Update the repo: $ helm repo update Hang tight while we grab the latest from your chart repositories....

April 24, 2024 · 2 min · 262 words · kenno

Connect to a Redis cluster with Python

To connect to a Redis server with Python, one can use python3-redis module. First verify that python3-redis module is installed. I’m showing the package name in Fedora 39, if you use a different distro, then check for the relevant package name. $ rpm -q python3-redis python3-redis-4.3.3-1.el9.noarch Here is the sample code to connect to a non-cluster Redis server: import redis # Connect to Redis r = redis.Redis(host='10.97.147.175', port=6379) # Set a key-value pair r....

April 3, 2024 · 1 min · 191 words · kenno

How to convert putty ppk to pem on macOS

Assuming that you use brew on your macOS, converting a ppk file to pem file is relatively easy. Install putty on your mac ➜ brew install putty Generate the key ➜ puttygen existing_key.ppk -O private-openssh -o new_key.pem Here are the options used in above command: -O private-openssh : save the output as a SSH-2 private key -o new_key.pem : save the output to new_key.pem Full credit go to this blog post [1], where I had learned to convert a PPK to PEM file....

March 28, 2024 · 1 min · 96 words · kenno