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Greet users with the message of the day

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Friday, 15 February 2019 · Estimated 1 minute read

The message of the day is known as motd. It's used to send a message to users after logging into a shell, commonly used on hosts. You can generate ASCII art and paste it into the motd file to spice t…

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Migrate my search from Solr to Elasticsearch

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Tuesday, 5 February 2019 · Estimated 4 minute read

An NRT (near-realtime) search platform. It's about a one second delay from the time a document is indexed until it is searchable. I have been using Solr for my search but have been wanting to migrate…

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Uninstall an app from the terminal

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Monday, 4 February 2019 · Estimated 1 minute read

I installed an application. It misbehaved. I wanted to try out a time tracking app. It should let me track reminders and record activity spent in meetings, out-of-office and on tasks I am working on,…

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SSH for Days

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Sunday, 3 February 2019 · Estimated 2 minute read

Mosh - the mobile shell. This remote terminal let's you roam with intermittent connectivity without breaking your SSH tunnel. The package must be installed on both the client and server and does not …

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Create a symlink for hidden files

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Sunday, 27 January 2019 · Estimated 1 minute read

I want to create a symlink for all hidden files excluding the hidden directories. I want to put my configuration files in my home directory into version control. I need to exclude the hidden director…

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Using the tar Command in Linux

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Monday, 14 January 2019 · Estimated 6 minute read

I used to right-click on a zipped file and manage the archive using the GUI. Gone are those days. Now I mainly work with tar files and need a cheat sheet to remember the commands for the terminal. 😊 …

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Checking Disk Usage in Linux

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Sunday, 13 January 2019 · Estimated 8 minute read

I had to find out much free space was available on a file system on a Linux server. Now getting this information on the GUI is simple - a few clicks, modals and stuff, but the server doesn't have a G…

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A Service Has Gone Rogue. How Do I Manage It?

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Tuesday, 8 January 2019 · Estimated 2 minute read

Once I installed a development service on port 3000 and I forgot about it. When I ran my project I couldn't start it because the port was in use. Baffled. 😕 This post forms part of a sequence of comm…

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Setting up my environment in Fedora - Installing apps

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Saturday, 20 October 2018 · Estimated 3 minute read

I had to re-install so I documented my process. In this post, I focus on the installation of my most used apps. Get ready is Dandified YUM, a -based distribution package manager. To speed up the up…

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Setting up my environment in Fedora - Customizing my shell

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Saturday, 20 October 2018 · Estimated 3 minute read

I had to re-install so I documented my process. In this post, I focus on configuring my shell for a personalized experience. Install Oh My Zsh zsh is an interactive shell with many features that impr…

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Setting up my environment in Fedora - Creating a boot disk

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Saturday, 20 October 2018 · Estimated 1 minute read

I had to re-install so I documented my process. In this post, I focus on getting a Fedora 28 live media installation ready on a USB boot disk so that I can begin the installation process. Note: I am …

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Setting up my environment in Fedora - Creating backups

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Saturday, 20 October 2018 · Estimated 2 minute read

I had to re-install so I documented my process. In this post, I focus on getting my data backed up so that I can restore it after the installation. Whatever isn't in git gets archived. This is mainly…

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Setting up my environment in Fedora

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Saturday, 20 October 2018 · Estimated 2 minute read

I needed to format my HDD because ... reasons. 😁 For a change, I decided to play around with Fedora instead of Ubuntu. The installation was painless and the user experience is much like what I am use…

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Learning Linux

Clarice Bouwer
Clarice Bouwer
Friday, 27 July 2018 · Estimated 4 minute read

I have used Windows for over twenty years. Oh my goodness that's a long bloody time. Now I've joined the Linux world. It's thrilling. I'm loving it, learning, sharing (and as always - documenting) wh…

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