My colleague Pim recently did a great write-up on how to do a safe in-place upgrade to a slim Debian stretch running i3 using debootstrap (a tool which will install a Debian base system into a subdirectory of another, already …
more ...Quite a few of the biggest forums on the internet use vBulletin to build their communities. Their reasons may vary, but one of the reasons why they might want to do so is because the self-hosted version vBulletin 4 came with free forum support for life and ticket support via …
more ...The writing of this blogpost has been on my personal TODO list for a while, but here it finally is. I spent some of my spare time in 2016 tinkering with different Linux distributions, not just because I still strongly believe that 2017 is The Year of the Linux Desktop …
more ...A while ago I wrote that 2017 is The Year of the Linux Desktop, but there is one thing that has always bothered me and that is that I need to fallback to my Windows machine to flash a new ROM on my lovely Samsung (Android) phone. Of course there …
more ...A quite annoying bug while using the VirtualBox 5.1.x release, apparently caused by Qt5, has forced people that use Tiling Window Managers like me to look at alternative ways to keep on using VirtualBox until a fix has been released. Luckily, VirtualBox has a quite excellent Headless Mode …
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