HowTos Migrating GitLab to GitLab-Omnibus I've recently discovered that the great people at GitLab have released the GitLab-Omnibus. This project creates full-stack platform-specific downloadable packages for GitLab. This is great, especially since a manual install on a Red Hat system can be a bit of a pain to maintain. Use this doc at your own
Rants Themes, They Are a Changin' FYI: I have a problem. I'm a bit of an indecisive person by nature...and this shows in most areas of my life. ESPECIALLY if I can change a theme easily. So...this blog tends to get a facelift a bit more than most people might feel comfortable with. I
HowTos Sending Commands into a Screen Session So, you have some existing piece of software that really REALLY...I MEAN REALLY wants its input on the command prompt. That is to say command < /file/with/input fails ya, and this particular piece of software does not have a flag to include a setting you want (in this
HowTos Pithos on Arch Linux Getting Pithos up and running on Arch was relatively painless. I was able to build it from source with minimal dependency pain, but I've since ditched that method for using the AUR. The 'Manual' AUR Method I'd recomend this method if you are just starting out. It's good to learn
Rants New Domain Name!! #ಠ_ಠ I've finally done it. theterminallife.com Be sure to update them bookmarks!!
Rants Flappy Birds... So, this game has gotten a lot of press here of late. So I think it's time for a rant post. I want to share my thoughts on its removal from app stores. Flappy Birds was bringing in $50,000 a day in advertising revenue. source Some might think to
HowTos Cool-Old-Term I like retro terminals. There, I said it. If it makes me some form of Techno-Hipster, then I shall accept my fate. When feeling uber-nerdy, I would load up phosphor from xcreensaver and run a terminal session it it. /usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor -program bash -scale 2 -delay 1000 Then,
HowTos Getting Pithos to work in Fedora 20 ####UPDATE "Pithos has official RPMs available in both RPMFusion and Copr now, so please use those to install! If there are ever any gstreamer issues using RPMs, please report it as a bug Thanks!" Source Comment I've got back on the Fedora train (at least on my home desktop) and
Troubleshooting 10 Second Apache Item Loads Recently an issue surfaced with one of my Apache servers. Page loads were suddenly taking WAY too long to load. In some cases, I was seeing over a minute long load times. After some head scratching and pointless page refreshes to see if maybe it would fix itself, I started
Rants It Begins... So long Wordpress!! It was only a matter of time before my wild 'streamline-all-the-things' kick transferred over to my blog. ###I'm saying Goodbye to Wordpress and Hello [Ghost](https://ghost.org/)!
Troubleshooting Vagrant DNS Slowness I've started using Vagrant a lot, and the one complaint I have is sometimes contacting and downloading items from the interwebs takes WAY longer than it should. I sat and waited for ruby to install a bundle that took over 10 minutes. (compared to less than a minute outside the
HowTos Starting the Nginx I just spent the better part of a day trying to migrate to nginx and accomplish global error pages across all my hosted sites. This sounded easy enough, and hey, I did it on apache before. Couldn't be too hard... Famous last words. SO...rather than dull you with the
Rants Damns Per Minute or: 'Living' with Android Forewarning: Working at an IT help desk for 2 years has made me a bit of an Apple Fanboy. I didn't start as one, in fact, I was quite the opposite. Microsoft ruled, and I wanted an Android phone, but after working on countless virus infected PCs and the fragmentation
HowTos Schrödinger's i3wm -UPDATE- I've given up on Fedora19 for now. It decided to stop working with the ever-so-informative error of 'Something Went Wrong.' I ended up removing ALL gnome3 items installed, but that still only allowed for a few minutes of work before it would freak out on me. Sadly, I
Show and Tell My Bashrc UPDATE: This is a bit dated. For one, I use ZSH with OH-MY-ZSH now. Only keeping this post alive for sentimental reasons. It was only a matter of time before I posted something like this. Seems like every other day I see a similar post on /r/linux. So, here
HowTos BASH Arguments So, I've written a few Bash scripts in my day. I'm by no means a Bash expert, but I get by. In a few of my scripts, I try to add argument flags to add usability, but nothing really fancy. Just one flag here and there. I'm nowhere near the
HowTos Thunderbird and Exchange 2010 The BIGGEST headache thus far about working in a Windows-centric environment has been trying to handle our work email elegantly. That is, not having to open a VM to use Outlook or open a second browser (Firefox) to have a decent OWA client. I tried Evolution (Gnome3's default mail client)
Show and Tell Gitlab #**UPDATE** Been using the Omnibus Package of the GitLab Community Edition offered by the AWESOME team behind GitLab and upgrading is a joy now!! Ignore the rest of this blag-post. It's something past me said. Present me thinks past me is a jerk. I've been using Gitlab both personally and
HowTos PulseAudio over Network I've been banging my head against this one since I started using a second workstation here at work (Fedora 17). File sharing, mouse and keyboard sharing, and syncing my wallpapers over the network was pretty simple, but there was one nagging issue. Sound. I found myself missing chats due to
Show and Tell MultiGrep Situation: You need to search for multiple items that may be in a config file. Like multiple ip addresses that you are going to add to an existing config file to make sure you are not duplicating rules. You could just run multiple greps to check for each ip individually
HowTos Remote Commands over SSH that require DBUS So, I started a simple script that randomly selects a wallpaper from a directory and sets it as the background on my Fedora 17 laptop. That part was simple enough, and it turned out that a coworker had already written such a script in perl. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use
Show and Tell Gitgo or: How I learned to live with VCS UPDATE: Only keeping thins post around as a reminder of how far I've come. UPDATE: This is a bit outdated now, as I have added some features and polished up the code a bit. I will post the update after the migration to Ghost is done. UPDATE: Changed order of
Show and Tell Variable Variable Names in Bash Yo dawg, I heard you like variables. So I put a variable in your variable so you can variable while you variable! Now that we've got that out of the way, time for the good stuff. I ran into this problem recently while writing a script to either take a
HowTos Check if File Exists AND is not Empty **UPDATE** HOLY LORD!! I used to write my if-then statements *UGLY*. Fixed that for my sanity. Ok, as the title suggests, this is about file state testing. I was recently writing a script that relied on the contents of a dynamically created file. If the file EXISTS and HAS contents
HowTos i3 Tiled Window Manager Recently, I stumbled upon a thread on Reddit about the i3 Tiled window Manager. To say the least, I was intrigued. I've been looking for ways to increase productivity on my Linux desktop for a bit now. Usually that just meant customizing Gnome Shell to display system information (CPU, Net,
