Configure make to use parallel compilation on Arch Linux
Speed up compilation (AUR packages, etc) on Arch Linux by tweaking make to use all the cores on your device. /etc/…
Published : 31 January 2020Install Deluge headless with Web UI on Ubuntu 18.04
Add the stable PPA sudo add-apt-repository -u ppa:deluge-team/stable sudo apt update Create a service account for…
Published : 10 January 2020Launch a separate 'backup' thunderbird instance offline
To store and access a completely separate 'backed up' Thunderbird profile under Linux we can simply move the old…
Published : 31 October 2019Manage separate Git configurations for work and personal
As of Git 2.13 git allows for Conditional Configurations. This means that a specific set of configurations can be used…
Published : 31 October 2019Git Workflow Diagram
I stumbled across this very clear representation of the Git Workflow.
Published : 21 October 2019Create and restore a backup of all packages in Arch Linux
BACKUP Create a list of all currently installed packages Native (manually installed via pacman) sudo pacman -Qn…
Published : 10 October 2019Install yay AUR package manager on Arch Linux
Simply paste the following into shell: cd $(mktemp -d) git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git cd yay makepkg -si…
Published : 10 October 2019Configure sensisble Virtual Memory and Swappiness settings for a Linux desktop
/etc/sysctl.d/100-vm.conf vm.dirty_ratio = 10 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5 vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 2000 vm.…
Published : 07 October 2019