Category Archives: General

Installing Citrix Workspace app 2009 for Linux

Posted on 2020-09-18 by ken_fallon

It’s been a while since I’ve covered Citrix, so let’s cover Citrix Workspace app 2009 for Linux today. There is good support for Linux as now they seem to be selling Raspberry Pis with custom versions of Citrix as thin … Continue reading →

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Ansible ping

Posted on 2019-11-13 by ken_fallon

This is also available as a podcast on Hacker Public Radio. Here are some steps you need to should take when setting up Ansible for the first time. Install the software Confirm ssh working Create a Inventory/Host_file Ansible Ping Create … Continue reading →

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Android/LineageOS refreshing every screen, every second

Posted on 2019-06-17 by ken_fallon

TL;DR Turn off “Phone Audio” in the Bluetooth headset. I have had a very strange problem with my LineageOS phone over the last week or two. Every screen intermittently started refreshing every second or so. Side menus disappeared, videos when … Continue reading →

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Resizing images for vcard on Android

Posted on 2019-01-05 by ken_fallon

I have had problems importing vcards onto my Android phone. After a lot of troubleshooting, I tracked it down to embedded images in the card. The PHOTO;VALUE field to be precise. Some images worked and some didn’t, and looking at … Continue reading →

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Preventing USB access

Posted on 2019-01-03 by ken_fallon

I have a Raspberry Pi next to my main workstation which I use for email. To control it I use the excellent Synergy Application over a ssh tunnel which means that I don’t need an extra keyboard or mouse. This … Continue reading →

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Problem running pgcli fixed by installing from git using pip

Posted on 2018-02-01 by ken_fallon

Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting. Recently it gave a problem under fedora. $ pgcli –host pg.example.com –port 1234 –username username –password –dbname pgdb Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/pgcli”, line 11, … Continue reading →

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NU.NL Podcast Algemeen nieuws RSS feed

Posted on 2017-11-15 by ken_fallon

I was delighted to discover that the main go to news site in the Netherlands nu.nl, is doing a daily podcast. I enjoy catching up on the RTÉ Morning Ireland, and the BBC Global News podcasts on the train, and I … Continue reading →

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Refresh a proxy cache with Curl

Posted on 2017-10-03 by ken_fallon

This is what you’re looking for http://martin.hoppenheit.info/blog/2015/refresh-proxy-cache-with-curl/

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Jenkins giving Javascript error on Robot Framework reports

Posted on 2017-02-14 by ken_fallon

I was struggling with an issue with Jenkins and Robot Framework. After a test run I could open the results file but not report.html nor log.html. They failed with a strange JavaScript error, even though that javascript was enabled. A … Continue reading →

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aws cp not working in cron

Posted on 2016-12-07 by ken_fallon

I just had a problem downloading some files from Amazon Web Services using the aws cp command. The script ran fine as the root user but did not when run in roots cron tab. A normal copy command that took … Continue reading →

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