Jun 04 2022
You have a Scaleway Virtual Private Server (VPS) and you are considering upgrading your installed Linux distribution. Perhaps you have been notified by Scaleway to upgrade an old Linux version. The email asks you to upgrade but does not give you the necessary information on how to upgrade or how to avoid certain pitfalls. What …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-upgrade-your-scaleway-server/
Feb 09 2021
You are using LXD containers and you want a container (or more) to use an IP address from the LAN (or, get an IP address just like the host does). LXD currently supports four ways to do that, and depending on your needs, you select the appropriate way. Using macvlan. See https://blog.simos.info/how-to-make-your-lxd-container-get-ip-addresses-from-your-lan/ Using bridged. See …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-get-lxd-containers-obtain-ip-from-the-lan-with-ipvlan-networking/
Aug 05 2020
radare2 is a tool for reverse-engineering software. It is quite versatile, and can deal either with binary files of executable code, or even attach to a running process. Packaging (making available an installation package for end-users) is always an issue, especially when the software gets updated often. There is in the works a snap package …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/using-the-radare2-snap-package/
Jun 17 2020
Update 16 July 2020: The package ibus-typing-booster has been accepted to Debian/Ubuntu. Therefore, you do not need anymore to use the testing PPA that was mentioned in the original post here. This post has been updated to reflect the change. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has switched to using the IBus input framework for most (all?) languages, …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/using-ibus-typing-booster-for-predictive-typing-in-ubuntu-20-04-lts/
May 15 2020
Update 6 Feb 2021: Added instructions to enable the HUION H430P to use the wacom driver. Verified on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04. If you want to draw on your computer, you can always use your mouse. But if you want to really draw, you can upgrade to a drawing tablet (also known as graphics …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-setup-the-huion-430p-drawing-tablet-on-ubuntu-20-04/
Apr 03 2020
Average Linux User has created a Youtube video on 30 This to do After Installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It is a well-prepared, high-quality, informative video. I recommend watching it. There are a couple of nitpicks though, and in this post I go into detail about them. See the Discussion below. First, here is the Youtube …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/re-30-things-to-do-after-installing-ubuntu-18-04-lts-all-in-one-video/
Recent Comments