I recently tried to cleanup partitions on my hard drive and to learn about their use for my windows and linux operating systems. However I am puzzled with a specific partition on my hard drive and whether it can be deleted. Gparted shows the partition in question as an unmounted […]
Monthly Archives: February 2025
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I’m building a script-runner in neovim to pipe the full path of the current buffer into a script. I’m trying to do this through a keybind with a function, but i’m having trouble to get the filepath correctly parsed in the function. I wrote this: function RunScript() let fpath = […]
I’m planning to set up a home lab on a laptop and need a powerful CPU for virtualization. My main use cases include running multiple Docker containers and several KVM-based virtual machines simultaneously. I’m currently considering two CPUs: Intel Core i9-14900HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX I want to ensure smooth […]
The Linux at command performs the job even if I log off from the current logon session, right? Even if the system is restarted? If so, what’s the background service behind it? If the job, once scheduled, can survive a logoff and/or a restart, there needs to be a daemon/service […]
I have old IDE DVD drive in my laptop. I have to add caddy in its place to attach additional internal hard disk to laptop. When I searched IDE caddy, I did not find it over internet to ship it to India. What should I do to use DVD drive […]
Anyone knows where the VirtualBox’s registry is kept? Or how does it look? Basically, I’d like to transfer some VMs to a different user on the same host, but cannot figure out an easy way to do it. Export/Import is something I would like to avoid due to inefficiency in […]
I am setting up a NAS/home server, and I’m struggling to understand how to correctly configure the storage, especially in which order I should proceed. My situation is the following: One NVMe drive for boot, system, and swap. Three 500GB HDDs, to set up as RAID5, as storage. One 2TB […]
Is there a way to restrict access for some programs to some hardware? Probably there are some Software? Proprietary or open-source, whatever. For example, I would like to disable for Adobe Illustrator any access to bluetooth. or E.g. I would like to disable access to soundcard for Autocad. And so […]
I use my /etc/hosts file as a personal firewall to block unwanted domains, and I want to make it immutable—even from myself—so I don’t easily modify it on impulse. My goal is to use macOS’s System Integrity Protection to enforce this restriction. Do you have thoughts on this approach? I […]