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Jean-Nicolas Boulay
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Mar 21, 2022

Podman error: no unqualified-search registries are defined in “/etc/containers/registries.conf”

If you get this error you need to add the registries in the registries.conf. Here is my registries.conf file (to edit: sudo vim /etc/containers/registries.conf):

Podman

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Podman

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Feb 26, 2022

DWM Tile Window Manager Keyboard short cut keys Issue

After installing dwm from Suckless on my WSL Kali environment, I ran into an issue where I couldn’t move the tiles from one tag to another. To be more specific, I couldn’t move a tile to tags 2, 3, and 6. I couldn’t figure out why until I tried debugging…

Dwm

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Dwm

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Feb 24, 2022

How to change Window Manager (GUI) for win-kex

I have been trying to use dwm tile Window Manager from Suckless with the Kali installation on a Windows 10 machine. But I kept running into issues. I tried using .xinitrc and other ways, but nothing worked until I discovered the file xstartup /usr/lib/win-kex/xstartup. From there, you can change startxfce4…

Kali

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Kali

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Mar 19, 2021

Get battery information via the terminal

In your /sys directory, you can get the status and capacity (percentage of power left) of your device’s battery. For the status: $ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status Unknown Discharging Charging Full For the capacity (percentage of power left in the battery): $ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity This gives you a number. You might have more than one battery on your device. You can find the list by doing this:

Linux

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Linux

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Mar 18, 2021

How to display hashing algorithm on your Linux system for user authentication

On some Linux distributions, you can use: $ authconfig — test | grep hashing But it doesn’t always work; here are some other ways to get the hashing algorithm: From PAM (Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules): $ cat /etc/pam.d/common-password | grep -i ^password | grep -v # | grep -i pam_unix.so…

Linux

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Linux

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Jan 15, 2020

How To Manually Remove A Container In Podman

Recently I kept getting this error: podman run — rm — net=host — name=container container error creating container storage: the container name “container” is already in use by “31d7724324lks3019908d896we22ece4f7db78162db4c8faab60725dbd4e1”. You have to remove that container to be able to reuse that name.: that name is already in use I tried…

Podman

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Podman

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Oct 3, 2019

How To Resolve ‘bsdtar’ “Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute” Error

The Error : # bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-rpi-latest.tar.gz -C root bsdtar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute bsdtar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute bsdtar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute bsdtar: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. So, I was just trying to untar Arch Linux tar gz file, but then I ran into this strange error. It turns out it was ‘libarchive’ that was too old. Here is how you solve this:

Linux

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Linux

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Aug 31, 2019

Get Ubuntu To Connect To Starbucks WiFi (Captive Portal)

To start you need another device to get the Starbucks Captive Portal DNS IPs. For example with my iPhone I go to Settings > “i” in the circle on the right of “Starbucks WiFi” > Configure DNS Step by step… with little images :~)

DNS

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Get Ubuntu To Connect To Starbucks WiFi (Captive Portal)
Get Ubuntu To Connect To Starbucks WiFi (Captive Portal)
DNS

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Apr 13, 2019

Solution To The Resolution Issue With JetBrains IDEs

I installed a while back PyCharm on my Linux laptop with Snap. Back then the windows manager that I was using was Gnome. Everything looked fine. But I got tired of using Gnome. I found it to be very memory greedy and buggy, at times. Also, the Gnome file manager…

Linux

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Linux

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Mar 29, 2019

BASH Daily —List The Content Of Multiple ZIP Files

I was recently helping a family member with recovering some data from their backup files. It turned out that the backups were stored in multiple ZIP files. They were hundreds of them. So how was I to list the content of all these ZIP files so that I could then…

Bash Script

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BASH Daily —List The Content Of Multiple ZIP Files
BASH Daily —List The Content Of Multiple ZIP Files
Bash Script

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