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This no longer works. The version of ddclient in EdgeOS uses the CloudFlare v1 API, which was deprecated November 2016 and finally retired June 2018. I now use cloudflare-ddns running on a server inside my network.
My home network sits on a fast internet connection behind an Ubiquiti Networks ...
Read more...I've just acquired a new work laptop (Asus N550JK-CM604H) and for my job the first step was getting my preferred Linux distro (Xubuntu 14.04 LTS) up and running on it. However, the laptop is newer than the distro release, so I didn't expect it to all be ...
Read more...Whilst chatting on the #minecraft channel on freenode, somebody comes out with:
<Dinnerbone> I love that 50% of thursdays are odd-numbered days <Dinnerbone> Makes the near-end-of-week that much more interesting
Which got me thinking... Are 50% of Thursdays on odd-numbered days? Probably not, at least not in every year. Some ...
Read more...Today I helped somebody in the Python IRC channel with a question about combining required, optional and multi-value positional arguments in Python's argparse module. This is actually pretty easy to do, but not immediately obvious, so here's the example I put together. I took hints from the first ...
Read more...Like many people, I've found the new things in the Linux desktop environment world - i.e. GNOME 3 and Unity - to be more of a hindrance than a help. For this reason I've switched to Xubuntu, which allows me to stick to my previous multi-window multi-desktop multi-monitor workflow ...
Read more...Continuing the trend of accidentally disabling hacks that people rely on, it now no longer appears to be possible to set your network card's MAC by adding a line like the following to /etc/rc.local:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:0C:xx:xx:xx:xx
It seems that ...
Read more...So you have your favourite tabbing convention, but you've ended up with some files in some other convention, for example tabs instead of 4 spaces. If you use Vim and already have it set up to your liking, the :retab command will replace indents in the current buffer with ...
Read more...For ergonomic reasons (discussed previously) I like a side button on my mouse to act as a middle button instead. Unfortunately there still doesn't seem to be an "easy" way to remap mouse buttons in Linux, and what's more the method of changing such settings seems to keep ...
Read more...So far every time I've used Qt applications under GNOME, especially VirtualBox, I've found the Qt font rendering to be appalling. See this screenshot of VirtualBox alongside the GNOME appearance dialog:
As you can see, most of my font settings are at the default "Sans" font. The "Sans ...
Read more...Yesterday I found out first-hand how using a dynamically typed language can get you into trouble in unexpected ways whilst writing unit tests for CSF (my PHP framework).
Take a look at this code---what do you think it should do?
$foo = 'bar';
var_dump(isset($foo['xyz']));
var_dump($foo['xyz']);
Most ...
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