Fixing GNOME Videos “cannot initialize OpenGL output” on Fedora (NVIDIA + Wayland)
GNOME Videos (Totem) failed to play MP4s with an OpenGL error on Fedora 43, NVIDIA, and Wayland. The fix is GDK_GL=gles —
16
May
Keeping Night Shift on in OS X
I have a Mac for work, and an external monitor. I like love the Night Shift option, but the setting won’t stay on after
17
Apr
Silly .profile tricks for EC2 instances
Assuming you have your AWS CLI configured properly, and have the “jq” package installed, this is an easy way to
12
Feb
Taskomatic troubleshooting, systems always show available updates – Spacewalk 2.3 / Satellite 5.x
Lately one of my projects at work is to get a patch management solution in place for our RHEL/CentOS Linux systems. Since
17
Aug
Running Linux commands on many servers at a time
I’ve been busy at work lately… setting up a new patch process to include implementation, migration from our old,
14
May
Quite possibly the best answer to an old interview question we had at CSC
The question was: “What is the difference between hard and soft mounts when using NFS?” I will copy and paste a
19
Jul
Mounting an NFS share on the Seagate BlackArmor NAS 110
I had a hell of a time using the NFS options on the Seagate BlackArmor NAS, mostly because of the lack of documentation from
18
Jan
TIL – Linux – getting around “operation not permitted”
Today we had a strange corrupted file end up on one of our backup servers, and was not allowing any kind of chown or rm
19
Oct
Stephen Hawking demonstrates ManageEngine’s Password Manager Pro
Ok, so it’s not really Stephen Hawking. But it definitely sounds like him. ManageEngine (http://www.manageengine.com),
09
Sep
Uh oh – Pidgin stores passwords in plain text in accounts.xml
Funny thing we found out at work today: Pidgin, which is a multi-protocol chat client I’ve been using for years and
26
Jul
