How to use iPhone to browse blocked websites in mainland China? FYI: on iPhone, these 2 Apps are the favorite combination I am using for visiting blocked websites in mainland China: Check OpenVPN + Ovpn Spider: Free VPNs for iPhone Users for how to use them together. OpenVPN is for setting up OpenVPN VPN connection….
How to un-export an imported variable in Bash on Linux? For example, first, I export a variable MODE like export MODE=debug but I want to unexport the MODE (not turn to be `””`, should be truly non-defined). You can export -n MODE or unset MODE For your reference (from the [`bash` manual](https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-bash/)): export [-fn] [name[=word]]…
I do not want to have coredump for the developing machine using systemd on Linux? How to disable the coredump function of systemd? You can disable coredump function of systemd by adding this line Storage=none to /etc/systemd/coredump.conf For your reference: Storage= Controls where to store cores. One of “none”, “external”, “journal”, and “both”. When “none”,…
How to get the directory path and file name from a absolute path in Bash on Linux? For example, with “/foo/bar/baz.txt”, it will produce: “/foo/bar/” and “baz.txt”. You also have the basename and dirname commands besides of the basename and dirname C API in Linux: [zma@laptop:~]$ p=”/foo/bar/baz.txt” [zma@laptop:~]$ dirname $p /foo/bar [zma@laptop:~]$ basename $p baz.txt
I have a blog with RSS feeds. Feeding to twitter and facebook is supported by many tools. But for the Google plus page, it seems not straightforward. How to automatically post blog RSS feed to Google plus pages? You can use Hootsuite to post blogs through RSS feeds to your Google plus pages. First, register…
When programming in C on Linux, it is common to allocate a buffer for storing the full path of a file. How to get a safe maximum size for allocating buffers for file paths? The header <linux/limits.h> includes macros for the path and file name length limits. On my system (Fedora 21), it is located…
What about the master branch for local git configuration in a git repository to make it track remote master branch? You may append these lines to .git/config in your cloned repository directory: [branch “master”] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master
I got a password protected RSA private key with headers like (I have the password): —–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—– Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED DEK-Info: AES-256-CBC,… How to decrypt a password protected RSA private key? You can use the openssl command to decrypt the key: openssl rsa -in /path/to/encrypted/key -out /paht/to/decrypted/key For example, if you have a encrypted…
Can I get a non-self-assigned and free Web server SSL/TLS certificates for my https websites? Asking the users to accept the self-assigned SSL certificates for my websites is not very convenient. Please check https://letsencrypt.org/ . PS: StartSSL used to provide 1 year free SSL. But StartCom CA is closed since Jan. 1st, 2018.
Any suggestion on good theme configuration for Fedora 21 Linux? My favorite combination of Window borders, Icons, Controls, Mouse Pointer and Desktop is as follows. All packages and themes are from Fedora repository or the Cinnamon repository. Remember to set the cursor theme for QT application like Google Chrome following: https://www.systutorials.com/4068/configuring-mouse-cursor-style-for-qt-applications-in-gnome-mate-desktop/ For this configuration, the…
I experience the program on Linux (Fedora 12) that Chrome reports “Your profile could not be opened correctly.” as follows. How to fix it? Restarting Chrome would not help. Removing the ‘Web Data’ directories from all profiles works for me (Making backup first as the commands will remove your files): cd ~/.config/google-chrome find ./ -name…
This tutorial introduces how to make Chrome accept self assigned ssl keys for websites: https://www.systutorials.com/50204/making-chrome-accept-self-signed-certificates-on-linux/ However, on iPhone, Chrome blocks me from access sites with self assigned keys. How to make Chrome on iPhone also accept the ssl keys? At the time when I wrote this reply, there is no way to add Certificate Authorities…
Any suggestions on good open-source and free scanner software for Windows? NAPS2 (Not Another PDF Scanner 2) is my favorite opensource scanner software on Windows: http://naps2.sourceforge.net/ Scan documents to PDF and other file types, as simply as possible. NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your…
I would like my site to be accessed by https only. How to force a website to use https by htaccess settings by redirecting http requests to the corresponding https ones? You can check the method of redirecting http to https at: https://www.systutorials.com/qa/1033/how-to-redirect-http-to-https-in-apache-with-mod_rewrite If you would like to have a 301 redirect, you can use…
A try like the following command failed $ sudo echo “echo hello” > /usr/local/bin/hello with an message bash: /usr/local/bin/hello: Permission denied It seems the writing to the file is executed under the non-root user. How to redirect STDOUT of sudo command on Linux and write the content to the file (/usr/local/bin/hello here) as root? You…
On a Linux box, we may allow non-root users mount and umount certain disks, such as /dev/sde1. How to allow non-root users on Linux to mount and unmount disks? Please check the tutorial at Controlling Filesystem Mounting on Linux by Playing with /etc/fstab: Allow non-root users to mount and unmount filesystems.
My laptop’s hard drive crashed. I went to someone else and got the hard drive replaced, but they could not recover my data. You may try PhotoRec as for https://www.systutorials.com/qa/1399/how-can-i-recover-deleted-photos-from-samsung . Although its named with “Photo”, PhotoRec can recover many kinds of files as listed in http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/File_Formats_Recovered_By_PhotoRec .
I can only connect to a Linux server by SSH. How to check whether a USB disk is connected to the Linux server? 2 ways I usuaully use: Method One: Check the print out of dmesg After the USB storage is connected and detected by Linux, it may print some messages containing “[sde]” (the new…
Currently, I need to integrate MySQL client into SQLE as SQLE’s client. And then, we just need design/implement a translation layer to transfer MySQL protocol into SQLE engine part (KV+ internal exactly). Mysql-Proxy could solve this problem but it is complex to be only a MySQL server. Therefore, I remoduled MySQL-proxy to be more simple…
Any suggestions on good tutorials for screen on Linux? To start with screen: A quick tutorial on screen. After can use the basic functions of screen, you may check out A dummies introduction to GNU Screen and A guide to GNU Screen. During all the progresses, frequently check the screen man page.