James John – Software Engineer
The Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) is a framework for allowing direct access to graphics hardware under the X Window System in a safe, efficient way. The main use of DRI is to provide hardware acceleration for the Mesa implementation of OpenGL. [Wikipedia] You may be experiencing some graphical glitch effects on your DE, this might […]
On installation of Debian 8 on a PC, grub wasn’t installed. Trying this method to install it, I got the error: efibootmgr: Could not set variable Boot0004: No space left on device I thought, is my /boot partition filled up? or my / is filled up so early. Had to even extend my /boot partition […]
SiDB – A Simple Database Library for sqlite3, after writing similar thing for PHP MySQL, since I use Python too I decided to build for it too for my easier coding. After building and seeing how helpful it is, I decided to share. What Does SiDB do? In all, its for less SQL Queries, it […]
What is Locale? Locales defines language and country specific setting for your programs and shell session. You can use locales to see date, time, number, currency and other values formatted as per your country or language on a Linux or Unix-like system. To set system’s locale you need use shell variable. For example, LANG variable […]
With the purpose of faster work, I wrote this framework last year and I recognized it would be useful for others. What does it do? SiDB makes it faster to Insert data to Database Retrieve data from Database Delete data from Database Run other queries All happens in just a line and no worries of […]
As a system admin, was stuck one day looking for a way to delete old files and it brought me to this code. This short code will delete files recursively if directory provided as the argument, if it’s a file, it just deletes the file if it matches the given time frame So with the […]
Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority that entered public beta on December 3, 2015 that provides free X.509 certificates for Transport Layer Security encryption (TLS) via an automated process designed to eliminate the current complex process of manual creation, validation, signing, installation and renewal of certificates for secure websites. Let’s Encrypt made it easy for […]
One thing I’ve loved so much in KDE is the KDEConnect. A dope feature for me a lazy man 🙂 What is KDEConnect? KDE Connect is a project that aims to communicate all your devices. For example, with KDE Connect you can receive your phone notifications on your computer, or just use your phone as […]
LaunchPad PPA allows you to upload Ubuntu source packages to be built and published as an apt repository by Launchpad. Ubuntu accepts adding of Launchpad PPAs easily and install any package you want. But here in Debian, it’s not so. I figure out a way to download package from PPAs in Debian and receive updates […]
Again after moving in with GNOME and set my system fonts which went cool, my Firefox still looked messy 🙁 But the below tweak is gonna fix it 🙂 Create this or edit ~/.fonts.conf and add this to it Create ~/.Xresources and add Now run Restart Firefox 🙂