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    • Linux Playground on #OCI

      Linux Playground on #OCI

      Spring is here and I will definitely spend more time outside on my bike and carrying my iPad in my backpack. So I was looking for an easy to setup environment to practice and train my shell scripting skills. And Oracle Always Free has a simple solution for that! I setup a small compute instance…

    • tmux Tutorial

      tmux Tutorial

      A very useful tool. Create new session: To dissconect from a session you are already in, I use Ctrl+b followed by pressing the d key. To re-attach to a session and continue where you left you need to figure out which session you want to attach to first. List the currently running sessions by using…

    • What makes an external disk bootable?

      This has changed greatly over the last few versions of macOS, and differs between different types of Mac. Here’s an outline. What makes an external disk bootable?

    • Linux Laptop Display Battery Status And Thermal Temperature – nixCraft

      Linux Laptop: Display Battery Status And Thermal Temperature From The Command Line Using upower, acpi and BAT0 file on any Linux distro. — Read on www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-laptop-battery-status-temperature/

    • How I use MacBook without a mouse | I am Sang

      I’m a software engineer from South Korea and currently live in Berlin. I write articles and draw comics in Korean and English. — Read on iamsang.com/en/2022/08/03/no-mouse/

    • FreeBSD Development | FreeBSD Foundation

      Table of Contents (now with article PDFs) FreeBSD Code Review with git-arc How to Implement Simple USB Driver for FreeBSD Kernel Development Recipes Foundation Letter We Get Letters Practical Ports Events Calendar Click here to start reading. Download the full PDF here. — Read on freebsdfoundation.org/past-issues/freebsd-development/

    • Setup a VirtualBox based Database Lab Environment

      Setup a VirtualBox based Database Lab Environment

      Oracle provides a lot of useful Oracle VirtualBox Pre-built Appliances. In this blog post, I will describe the few extra steps I take after download in order to setup my lab environment on my work MacBook Pro.