Applications and HowTos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2024

• Applications

  • TecMint ☛ Peazip – A Portable File Manager and Archive Tool for Linux

    As an alternative to open-source software like WinRar and WinZip, PeaZip provides a high compression ratio, especially when using formats like 7Z and PAQ. It supports various encryption methods, including AES and Blowfish, for securing files. Users can also open proprietary formats like RAR and ACE.

  • Sven Hoexter: GKE version 1.31.1-gke.1678000+ is a baddy

    Just a "warn your brothers" for people foolish enough to use GKE and run on the Rapid release channel.

    Update from version 1.31.1-gke.1146000 to 1.31.1-gke.1678000 is causing trouble whenever NetworkPolicy resources and a readinessProbe are configured. As a workaround we started to remove the NetworkPolicy resources. E.g. when kustomize is involved with a patch like this: [...]

• Instructionals/Technical

  • TecMint ☛ How to Enable and Manage Clipboard Access in Vim on Linux

    In this article, we’ll explore how to enable clipboard access in Vim and manage clipboard contents effectively from the Linux terminal.

  • Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Disable Mouse Side Buttons in Ubuntu 24.04

    This tutorial shows how to disable your mouse forward/backward buttons in Ubuntu. Though the title said for Ubuntu 24.04, this tutorial should also work in most modern Linux, such as Debian, Fedora, and Arch.

  • Jeff Geerling ☛ Finding a server's BMC / IPMI IP address with ipmitool

    I test servers on a temporary basis a lot, and many enterprise servers don't have as user-friendly external port indications, or little OLED displays to provide useful information. They're no-frills because they don't need frills, you just deploy them and they run for years.

    I often need to gain access to the server's IPMI/BMC interface to manage the server remotely, and it's not always obvious what IP address is assigned if you don't manually assign one via your router and a MAC address.