HOWTO: Converting an unencrypted Ubuntu root disk to encrypted
The best way to configure Ubuntu for an encrypted root filesystem is to tell the installer to do it when you’re installing the operating system. It’s complicated, and smart people have put a lot of...
View ArticlePenguinDome: new, open-source Linux mobile device management (MDM) solution
Where I work, we have employees who use (in decreasing order of popularity) Mac OS, Windows, and Linux as their desktop computers. We’ve deployed a large, complex remote administration / MDM...
View ArticleMitigating WiFi upload speed issues on Lenovo IdeaPad S340 running Linux
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad S340 laptop with an Intel WiFi adapter (Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 9462, to be precise) running Ubuntu Linux 19.04. When I use most WiFi networks, download and upload speeds...
View ArticleHow to fix: Google Chrome on Linux always launches in full-screen mode
Executive summary If you’re using Google Chrome on Linux and it’s stuck in a state where every time you launch it, it starts in full-screen mode, here’s how to fix it without having to recreate your...
View ArticleHack of the day: using the Google Fi “Messages for Web” app on Linux to open...
Over on Github, I just published some code I wrote to implement support for “tel:” links for Google Fi’s Messages for Web app on Linux. In other words, if you have Google Fi and you use Google’s...
View ArticleHack of the day: easily configure Linux hosts to reboot once or always...
I have LUKS encryption configured on all of my Linux desktops and laptops, which is a pain when I need to reboot one remotely, since it prompts for the decryption key and won’t finish rebooting until...
View ArticleLinux (systemd, NetworkManager): how to run a script on suspend before...
I recently found myself faced with the problem described in this Stack Exchange question, specifically, how can I get a script to run immediately before my laptop suspends, but while the network is...
View ArticleHow to access your encrypted Linux system from the Ubuntu installer when your...
OK, so, you’re here because you’ve managed to do something to screw up your Linux box which has a LUKS-encrypted root filesystem, and now it won’t boot, and you need to boot from Ubuntu install media...
View ArticleHack of the day: keep the Emacs server running in the active login session
Prereqs for this hack being useful to you: (1) you use GNU Emacs; (2) you keep a single Emacs running in your session and use emacsclient to open files for editing in it; (3) you have Linux computers...
View ArticleLong time Ubuntu user, first time Debian installer
The back story I recently described in a Fedi thread how I was trying to be a good doobie and use Firefox instead of Chrome, but was disappointed with Firefox’s performance on my Ubuntu desktop. In...
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