Category: software
Xtrlock : Minimal lock program
18/07/2019
Sometimes you want to lock your screen but still want to view what your machine is doing.
xtrlock is simple and just does that.
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sudo apt-get install xtrlock |
Type in a terminal ‘xtrlock’ and a little icon replaces your mouse cursor. To unlock just type your password.
You can also add a shortcut in a menu or whatever you like.
If you still like to blank your monitor use: xtrlock -b
for the love of code
12/07/2019
Now that was a nice surprise.
Juliette Reinders Folmer presented us the latest do’s, dont’s and tips at the Zwolse WordPress Meetup (great setup, nice people)!
This is what it was all about:
Now that WordPress has committed to a minimum requirement of PHP 7 by the end of 2019, we can all start looking at modernizing the code we maintain. Removing hacks to support old versions is easy, but how can code be improved when it just works on PHP 7? Namespaces, generators, Intl are just a few of the features introduced since PHP 5.2, not to mention scalar type declarations and all the other awesomeness that came with PHP 7. But what does it all mean, and how can you take advantage of these goodies? Join Juliette to learn to identify where to make quick fixes, when to look into refactoring, and how to make your code faster, better and more secure by using modern PHP.
https://speakerdeck.com/jrf/for-the-love-of-code-modernizing-wordpress-plugins-and-themes-full-deck
Howto fix: InRelease’ changed its ‘Suite’ value from ‘testing’ to ‘stable’ “error”
08/07/2019
Well, its not really an error..
So: YAY!!! We are going from testing to stable on the raspberry pi (debian buster).
What now?
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sudo apt-get update E: Repository 'http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing' to 'stable' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details. |
Run it like this:
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apt-get update --allow-releaseinfo-change |
Your will see something like this:
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Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease Get:2 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB] Get:3 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf Packages [13.0 MB] Fetched 13.0 MB in 1min 41s (129 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done N: Repository 'http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'testing' to 'stable' |
And ofcourse dont forget to upgrade!
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sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. |
Terminals are sexy
03/07/2019
Yeah they are…
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#/bin/sh case $SHELL in *bash) ECHO='echo -e' ;; *) ECHO='echo' ;; esac white="\033[1;37m" red="\033[1;31m" green="\033[1;32m" yellow="\033[1;33m" blue="\033[1;34m" transparent="\e[0m" clear; ${ECHO} "" ${ECHO} "$blue" ${ECHO} " ████████╗███████╗██████╗ ███╗ ███╗██╗███╗ ██╗ █████╗ ██╗ ███████╗" ${ECHO} " ╚══██╔══╝██╔════╝██╔══██╗████╗ ████║██║████╗ ██║██╔══██╗██║ ██╔════╝" ${ECHO} " ██║ █████╗ ██████╔╝██╔████╔██║██║██╔██╗ ██║███████║██║ ███████╗" ${ECHO} " ██║ ██╔══╝ ██╔══██╗██║╚██╔╝██║██║██║╚██╗██║██╔══██║██║ ╚════██║" ${ECHO} " ██║ ███████╗██║ ██║██║ ╚═╝ ██║██║██║ ╚████║██║ ██║███████╗███████║" ${ECHO} " ╚═╝ ╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═══╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚══════╝╚══════╝" ${ECHO} "" ${ECHO} " █████╗ ██████╗ ███████╗ ███████╗███████╗██╗ ██╗██╗ ██╗" ${ECHO} " ██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔════╝ ██╔════╝██╔════╝╚██╗██╔╝╚██╗ ██╔╝" ${ECHO} " ███████║██████╔╝█████╗ ███████╗█████╗ ╚███╔╝ ╚████╔╝" ${ECHO} " ██╔══██║██╔══██╗██╔══╝ ╚════██║██╔══╝ ██╔██╗ ╚██╔╝" ${ECHO} " ██║ ██║██║ ██║███████╗ ███████║███████╗██╔╝ ██╗ ██║ " ${ECHO} " ╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝╚══════╝ ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝ ╚═╝ ╚═╝" ${ECHO} "" |
Fix that cheap wifi dongle (linux)
03/02/2019
Cheap wifi dongles on the raspberry pi (v1 b). Don’t you love the frustrations they bring.
So you buy a cheap wifi dongle but it just wont do what a more expensive brand would: run without problems.
First, do what all the people out there on your search quest do. Sudo here, enter there, dont forget the raspi-config command. Many way’s to Rome.
These are my little notes (so I wont forget) that worked for me.
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sudo apt-get install wicd-curses sudo wicd-curses |
Now try to get to your wifi and press the -> arrow.
fiddle arround (shout some more) enter ip adresses if you like. And somehow this could work.
But darn, there we have it. Now it goes into sleep mode. So we need to keep it alive.
Oke, lets do it the dirty way.
Keep the ping on!
Make a cronjob:
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*/2 * * * * ping -q -W 1 -c 1 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null |
And we are good to go?