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Serving VNC via HTML5 using noVNC and x11vnc
Thursday, July 22nd, 2021Epson DS-30 on Ubuntu Linux
Saturday, February 13th, 2021https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sane-backends/+bug/1728012/comments/36 Use the attached ds-30-bundle, download fromhttp://support.epson.net/linux/en/iscan.php?model=ds-30&version=1.0.1 Install the deb packages with ./install.sh –dry-run Use simple-scan to run the scan. Insert paper face down above/next tothe little scan marker and press the button
Running a GUI application in Docker
Saturday, January 30th, 2021Creating a service to run a systemd-nspawn server
Thursday, January 28th, 2021debootstrap –include=systemd-container –components=main,universe focal myContainer http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=232804 Edit /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-nspawn@.service ExecStart= -> remove -UAdd[Exec]PrivateUsers=off https://wiki.debian.org/nspawn#Booting_a_Container sudo systemctl daemon-reloadsudo systemctl restart systemd-nspawn@myContainer
Git refuses to discover new remote branches
Saturday, January 23rd, 2021In addition to the excellent suggestions at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1783405/how-do-i-check-out-a-remote-git-branch, take a look in .git/config and make sure fetch is specified to only fetch the master branch: [remote “origin”] url = git@github.com:example/coolproject.git fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master # bad You’ll want to change the fetch line to fetch all branches instead: [remote “origin”] url = git@github.com:example/coolproject.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
ImageMagick snippet: batch crop, dither, and guillotine
Thursday, November 12th, 2020Concatenating PDFs while padding/extending odd-length PDFs
Saturday, October 10th, 2020When concatenating PDFs to consolidate print jobs, it is nice to have single-page or PDFs with odd numbers of pages to not have to share sides with another unrelated document. There is a short script available at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/66418/how-can-i-merge-pdf-files-so-that-each-file-begins-on-an-odd-page-number ; however, it does not appear to be updated for PyPDF2. So here is an update for […]
Scanning with Brother DCP-7065DN in Ubuntu
Saturday, September 12th, 2020First, make sure the printer is detected in lsusb: Then, either add a udev rule to ensure that we have permission to access it, or use the following one-time hack: Now, install the correct driver for the printer from support.brother.com. For the DCP-7065DN on Ubuntu 64-bit, the following package worked: Check that sane-find-scanner can see […]
Simple recursive DNS server with Unbound DNS
Thursday, July 30th, 2020This is a simple configuration for running a recursive DNS server (passes DNS requests to another server and caches responses) with the Unbound DNS server. Installation (Ubuntu): Open the config Configuration Replace 8.8.8.8 below with the desired upstream DNS server. Starting the server Debugging / Troubleshooting Query the server Read the DNS server log References: […]
Make fails silently
Tuesday, February 28th, 2017Run make -d &> log.txt and examine the log. Likely there is some prerequisite which is missing, in the form of “File `foo’ does not exist.”
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