Printing on Linux
Printing on Linux has sometimes been a nightmare for me. The problem is usually worse depending on the printer you have. For me I have a brother MFC-J4620DW. Today, that nightmare is over.
Openfortivpn on Gentoo with OpenRC
I recently setup a low-powered HP Stream laptop with Gentoo. Given it's lower spec, I opted for configuring it with a more conservative set of packages and decided to try OpenRC instead of systemd.
One of the default use flags for systemd, is resolvconf. On my other systems with Systemd, connecting to a FortiNet VPN usually results in DNS being automatically configured.
The Openfortivpn client uses resolvconf, but with OpenRC I don't have it installed, so I went about exploring how to configure the openfortivpn and ppp client to setup DNS automatically.
r8152 resume from suspend
I recently upgraded my Precision 5510 to a Precision 5550. I was able to use
btrfs send to transfer my existing Gentoo install to the new machine and used
genkernel for my kernel config until I can get around to fine tuning. I have
noticed an odd quirk where resuming from suspend, the ethernet port on my TB16
thunderbolt dock does not work.
When it's not cool to use PowerShell.
PowerShell is an extremely productive language. The pipeline looping combined with regular expressions and custom objects allow you to quickly build a one-liner that make it tempting to use for data processing. But when it comes to larger data sets, your better off looking to something else.
Transfer BTFS snapshots with netcat
Netcat, the swiss army knife of TCP/IP can be used for many tasks. Today, I'll breifly demonstrate sending btrfs snapshots between computers with it's assistance.