Automation

We all have our little digital sanctuaries, places where we spend countless hours typing away, solving problems, and creating things. For many of us, that’s the terminal. But let’s be real – staring at the same old prompt day in and day out can get a bit… monotonous. Specially all those minimal small debian boxes or containers I use for this and that. A Simple Bash Terminal Prompt Generator I created a little tool on one of my late-night coding adventures. You know, those moments when you’re supposed to be sleeping but your brain decides it’s the perfect time to go Brrrrrrttt? Anyway, I was looking for a simple one click Bash Terminal Prompt Generator because my previous bookmarked one went out of service and I didnt like the others. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Intel NUCs from two generations ago have a nice feature: a multicolor LED Ring and Power LED that you can control by software. I use an i5 9th gen NUC at home as my “Homeserver, IoT, whatever” device. I created a tiny script running as cron every minute to set the LED Color depending on the internet connection “quality”. I’m not really pulling data from the modem; for my purposes, it’s not necessary. I just want to have a quick solution to let others in my family at home see if there are any issues or not. You know the situation: Wife cannot open a certain internet page or something is loading very slowly. “What’s wrong with our internet?” Most of the time the answer is “Nothing - it’s not on our end,” but now I have a quick way to visualize if anything may be wrong. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Several times already I had the Problem that in Multimonitor mode of my laptop I undock it and some windows “stuck” to the old now non existing 2nd Screen. There are some things you can do to move it back but sometimes everything fails. So in first I made a small Autohotkey Script to move all Windows, but I wanted it done right and so I just put a small C# tool together. Opensource, feel free to use. Here a small Video how it works with my 2nd Screen attached: ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Or my home Cloud without „the Cloud” :) If it comes to Syncing folders to several devices many of us go the “lazy way” using google drive, dropbox, onedrive whatever to sync your local Documents. Some may go a step further and use some kind of Encryption, but this is often not very end user friendly. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. I cannot point out often enough how critical it is to keep your internet-based Servers updated. I use and manage some Servers, about 20 currently. But I hate to check them on a weekly base for Security Updates. I still remember days where Sysadmins brag with uptimes – not a smart thing to do. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. If you run Letsencrypt SSL Certs on your servers and use certbot you probably know what I’m talking about. In the past I had it several times that the cert itself was renewed but the webserver, for whatever readon, didn’t reload. Causing the website to report a expired certificate, even it’s not. As soon as I did a manual NGINX Reload it workend. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Just as a note to myself or anybody who is interested in it, feel free to use. Often you come across hrefs linking to ssh://user@whatever:22. By default, Windows does not know what to do with this protocol. If you go to select the standard protocol handler for it, you only get redirected to the MS Store, offering you some expensive terminal apps you actually do not want to use. I, for myself, have been using the Pro version of MobaXterm for many years. MobaXterm has shell integration, but I never got it running right or being selectable as a protocol handler, unfortunately. But this is why I made this little method to actually make it working. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. This is an updated posting from my older German Article. **I don’t want to give a rating of the Subsystem for Linux; for some, it is very useful; others may not be so happy about it, but let’s get straight to the point. The most pain I had was having my private key in the Subsystem and needing to re-authenticate every time by entering the key. I’m used to using the Keepass integrated (plugin) Agent, and that’s why my key has a password that’s too long to type. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: CAPTCHA: acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Intended to block bots, used in registrations/forms. But some are unreadable, frustrating users and increasing bounce rates. Today I couldn’t register because the CAPTCHA was like a Rorschach test. Developers, please consider usability; many won’t try five times. ...

Hey, just a heads-up that this content is based on an automatically imported version from our old CMS. If the formatting isn’t perfect, I’m sorry about that. Translation This original post is written in german 🇩🇪, a rough Translation: I built a C# tool for Windows XBMC with a Fritzbox: connects and reads call logs, filters them, shows incoming call notifications in XBMC, and pauses playback. Planned: save config, dialog duration, pause or mute option, caller name mapping via text file. Testers with Fritzbox welcome. ...