Recently I leased a server with 2 IPs, x.x.x.x and y.y.y.y from a VPS company. Their first IP is the primary one and is connected to my VM, the secondary IP y.y.y.y is there for me to use, but have not connected yet.
Category archives: Learning Notes
Put CPU under Performance mode in Linux
Linux kernel is able to control every tiny bit of the hardware it operates. This time I am going to max out my server’s CPU performance by tuning the CPU to the performance mode.
Fix Music on Console TiMidity startup error
I love to use terminal / console, figured that it is more efficient at most of the times, even when I was listening to music. Music On Console (MOC) is one of the programs that I use.
Let Firefox support h264 video in Fedora
H264 decoder is proprietary. Hence no default installation on fresh Fedora. We need to add rpmfusion repositories and other packages to support firefox streaming/playing h264 format.
Install XeLaTeX in Fedora
A note to myself. I tried to install XeLaTeX to my freshly installed Fedora 23.
Fix SQLite3 dependency issue for dnf
Recently when I did a dnf update I saw broken package for sqlite on my Fedora 23. Then I attempt to re-install that by removing it. rpm -e –nodeps sqlite Then shit hit the fan.
Multi Process Debugging
It bugs me to debug multiprocess C programs by using GDB. Here is a note for multi processing, and multithreaded debugging.
SSL Setup
This is a personal technical note for SSL certificate setup, ensuring better scores at SSL Labs so that we have a better Internet security for our own.
Configuration on PS1 files in Vim
Thank you Lixar for my first ever Co-op placement. Although there are many colleagues like me, love to use Linux/Unix as our main OS, work must be done as what we are expected. Because they choose Azure cloud initially, I have to do development work under Windows. It doesn’t bother me too much, I still …
Applying man with colour under zsh
After installing zshell and applying the zshrc from grml system-wide, my man page doesn’t want to be colourful. The configuration is caused by a environmental variable GROFF_NO_SGR, when it’s set to 1, man page will be able to paint with colour. Here is my personal .zshrc: # Vim key binding bindkey -v # The important …