Tagged: tweaks

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Local DNS for development environment on Mac

At times we need to setup local development domains for our test environment. I use it to maintain a local copy of my hosted website. It is very convenient to make changes to local and then export to hosted website...

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brew packages and cask packages

brew packages Basic Apps $ brew install bash $ brew install bash-completion $ brew install maven $ brew install openssl $ brew install ssh-copy-id $ brew install wget $ brew install gawk Big data Apps $ brew install hadoop $...

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Disable THP on CentOS 6

For the impatient Disable Transparent Huge Pages on CentOS 6 During Runtime echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/redhat_transparent_hugepage/enabled echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/redhat_transparent_hugepage/defrag   Surviving reboot sudo vi /etc/init.d/disable-transparent-hugepages #!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: disable-transparent-hugepages # Required-Start: $local_fs # Required-Stop: # X-Start-Before:...

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Super charge bash with these bash_profile tips

Some tips and tricks to super charge bash Tip #01: Up down arrow auto complete ~/.inputrc #File: ~/.inputrc ## arrow up “\e[A”:history-search-backward ## arrow down “\e[B”:history-search-forward   Tip #2: Auto complete hostnames in ssh, scp. More details here. $ brew install...

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Remote X11 display on Windows machines

Xming X Server for Windows is required to open display from your remote *nix host. Xming URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/ X11 packages are required on remote machine Following settings may or may not be required on the remote machine to X11 to work...

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Create ISO on Mac – the easy way

Create an ISO on Mac from a folder $ hdiutil makehybrid -o ~/Desktop/image.iso ~/path/to/folder/to/be/converted -iso -joliet     Related posts: Transparent image file on MAC MAC terminal shortcut keys How-to: Install Hue on a Mac Lync for Mac removal script

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Extending laptop battery life

Memory Effect First of all it’s necessary to unfold a myth that persists in many peoples head. The battery memory effect. In lithium-based batteries this is in fact a myth, it only applies to older Nickle-based batteries. So fully discharging and charging the...

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Linux / mint / Ubuntu – free up disk space

sudo apt clean Cleans up data in directory /var/cache/apt/archives Related posts: Tips and Tricks for Linux Mint after Installation [Mint 13 Maya – Cinnamon Edition] Change Linux Login screen – GNOME Hosting multiple websites on Apache2

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Change Linux Login screen – GNOME

Steps Download nice looking GDM themes (GDM = GNOME Display Manager) Open Login manager (# sudo mdmsetup or System > Administration > Login Window) Login manager -> Local -> add -> select the downloaded theme files   Resources I found my set...