First Obsidian Plugin: Previous Daily Note

Jan 15, 2025

About eight months ago, a friend introduced me to Obsidian. I wanted to replace my old Android note manager with one that offers control over files and no limitations on note size. …

Restrict Shell Commands Over SSH

Jan 16, 2024

When you have a GNU/Linux server, and you need to create accounts to allow users to access the server over SSH, it can be a good idea to restrict the commands they can execute. …

Convert fsarchiver img to VirtualBox vdi

Jul 17, 2023

I had an image of a bootable GNU/Linux system and needed to use it in the VirtualBox. The image was made with fsarchiver. Below I show the steps to convert the image to a vdi file. …

Irssi Notify by Mail

Apr 17, 2022

Some time ago I started to use Irssi on a remote server. I keep it running 24/7 on a Screen session. The problem: Sometimes I do not check irssi for messages over days or weeks. If I receive a private message or a mention on some channel, I will not read them. …

Route Only HTTP Traffic Over VPN

Jun 22, 2021

I searched the internet on how to route only HTTP packets over a specific interface, like a VPN interface, but I saw that a lot of solutions not worked. Here I show how to do this on a GNU/Linux system. I used Debian buster. …

Importing Tarballs to Meet DEP-14 in an Old GIT Repository

Jun 21, 2021

To meet DEP-14 a git repository of a package must have some layout. I create a script to help to get tarballs of a package (that was already in Debian) and import them into a repository with an old structure, that is, only one branch with the debian/ directory, no upstream files. …

Find mediaserver IP with command line

May 17, 2021

Last week I need to find the IP of my UPnP mediaserver in a console environment. …

My muttrc with Multiple Imap Accounts

Mar 20, 2021

Here I share my mutt configuration. …

Making chroot of Debian Buster

Feb 11, 2021

Making a chroot of a Debian system is very easy when you use debootstrap. In this post, I show how to make a chroot of Debian Buster for a production environment. …

Red Circle Around Cursor

Sep 23, 2020

I was needing to highlight the mouse cursor for a presentation. I found this really nice cursor theme. …