A pop-up terminal is great and handy on Linux and similar OS. On KDE, Yakuake is great. On Gnome or GTK, I ever tried Guake. It is quite good. However, it has not been as mature, stable and figure-rich as gnome-terminal. One day, I got this idea: why not using a script/program to manage the
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How to Make Chrome Accept Self-Signed Certificates on Linux
Posted onIf your website uses a self-signed certificates, Chrome will show a warning every time and you need clicks to continue. In this post, I will introduce how to make Chrome accept self-signed certificates for sites on Linux. This post is made short on purpose and you need to search the Web and learn if you
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Making GPT Partition Table and Creating Partitions Using parted in Linux
Posted onMy best favorite disk partition table manipulation tools are cfdisk/fdisk on Linux. However, for large disks, cfdisk/fdisk (of the versions by this post is written) will just give up with a message suggesting GPT partition table format and using GNU parted like WARNING: The size of this disk is 6.0 TB (6001042391040 bytes). DOS partition
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How to Rotate Videos from iPhone in Linux
Posted oniPhone is nice to take videos. However, one headache is the video may be rotated by 90 degree if you play it with non-Apple software such as MPlayer on Linux or Windows. This tutorial will introduce how to rotate the video taken from iPhone or other sources on Linux by 90 degree. The tool we
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How to Play Movie from Remote Host using MPlayer over SSH
Posted onMPlayer is a great movie player. SSH is a great tool to connect and transfer data over the network securely. Combining these 2 great tools together will be greater. You may already has a small server storing some movies or videos or music and playing them on your laptop will be convenient. In this post,
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How to Configure Linux Kernel Video Mode for 32-bit and 16-bit Boot Protocols
Posted onThe Linux kernel has a generic driver for a graphic framebuffer named vesafb on intel boxes. It provides a nice large console for most of modern displays. Setting VESA modes for Linux kernel with 32-bit and 16-bit boot protocol are different. We introduce both methods here. Linux kernel with 32-bit boot protocol For machine with
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Creating a Child Process using posix_spawn in C in Linux
Posted onThe posix_spawn() and posix_spawnp() functions create a new child process from the specified process image constructed from a regular executable file. It can be used to replace the relative complex “fork-exec-wait” methods with fork() and exec(). However, compared to fork() and exec(), posix_spawn() is less introduced if you search on the Web. The posix_spawn() manual
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Hadoop Installation Tutorial (Hadoop 2.x)
Posted onHadoop 2 or YARN is the new version of Hadoop. It adds the yarn resource manager in addition to the HDFS and MapReduce components. Hadoop MapReduce is a programming model and software framework for writing applications, which is an open-source variant of MapReduce designed and implemented by Google initially for processing and generating large data
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Extending Mounted Ext4 File System on LVM in Linux
Posted onLVM is a great tool to manage hard disks on Linux—you can abstract the hard drives away and manage logical volumes from volume groups, you can dynamically add or remove hard drives while the file systems on the logical volumes need not to backed up and recovered, and you may create many snapshots of the
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Keyboard Key Mapping for Emacs: Evil Mode and Rearranging Alt, Ctrl and Win Keys
Posted onCtrl keys are important and possibly most frequently used in Emacs. However, it is painful on today’s common PC keyboards since Ctrl keys are usually in the corner of the keyboard main area. Why the key mappings in Emacs are designed like this? After it was designed, Emacs was commonly on the Lisp Machine keyboards
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Git Merging FAQs
Posted ongit merge is frequently used during development of projects managed by git. There are many common questions about git merge and I find most are solved and discussed on StackOverflow. Here, I summarize useful ones so that others who want to learn git merge need to do the search again. Merge, rebase, fast forward and
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How to Create Fedora 20 Domain-U on Fedora 20 Domain-0
Posted onIn this post, creating a file-backed virtual block device (VBD) and installing Fedora 20 in the Xen DomU via internet will be introduced. This domain is created on a Fedora 20 Dom0 as introduced in https://www.systutorials.com/installing-xen-on-fedora-20-as-domain-0/. For better performance, you may consider using LVM backed VM. Create file-backed VBD The actual space of VBD will
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Installing Xen on Fedora 20 as Domain-0
Posted onI ever introduced [[installing-xen-domain-0-on-fedora-17]] as the first try to use the xen package delivered from Fedora and get away from manually compiling Xen and patching the kernel. In this post, I introduce installing Xen Dom0 on Fedora 20. Installing Xen First, install the xen pacakges: # yum install xen The Linux kernel is already ready
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Cheatsheet: Git Branching with a Git Server
Posted onIt is common to set up git servers to host git repositories. Branching is lightweight in git and a very friendly mechanism to manage code. Here, I summarize a cheatsheet of common git branching commands for working on repositories from a git server. This post assumes that you have basic knowledge with git. If you
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Improving Fedora Font Rendering with Open Software and Fonts Only
Posted onIt is continuously discussed that some Fedora users do not like the font rendering in Fedora Linux and there are solutions to improve the font rendering with potentially non-free or non-licensed software/fonts. However, with only the open source fonts and software and little tricks, the font rendering on Fedora can be quite good. In this
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Useful Git Submodule Commands
Posted ongit submodule is a very useful tools in git to include other git repositories in one repository to handle cases such as library dependencies. In this post, I summarize some commonly used commands that I find useful for working with git submodule. For the list of full commands, check the git submodule manual. Add a
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How to Catch the Signal Sent by Kill in C on Linux
Posted onPrograms may want to catch the kill signals sent by the kill command in C programs on Linux so that it can gracefully shutdown itself before it is killed. For example, I have a daemon progd running, and it may be killed by pkill progd. The progd may want to save some in-memory state to
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How to Install, Run and Uninstall VMware Player and VirtualBox on Fedora Linux
Posted onVMware Player and VirtualBox are two cool and free full virtualization solutions and both can run on top of a Linux host. In this post, I introduce how to install, run, and uninstall VMware Player and VirtualBox on Fedora Linux. VMware Player Install VMware Player Download the installation bundle from VMware’s website. For example, the
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Git through SSH Tunnel as Proxy
Posted ongit is a great tool and it is common to have a git server over SSH possibly managed by gitolite. However, there are situations that we can not directly connect to the git server but be able to SSH to another node that can connect to the git server. The git server may allow only
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Directly SSH to Hosts’ Internal IPs Through the Gateway
Posted onWe have many hosts with internal/LAN IPs like 10.0.3.* behind a gateway and the hosts with LAN IPs can connect to the Internet through the gateway. We used iptables to forward port from the gateway to internal IPs so that users from hosts with Internet connections can SSH to the gateway’s forwarded port to log
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