James John – Software Engineer
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 🙂
Been running a system behind a proxy server and some of these CLI packages neither use the GNOME system proxy or environment variables of proxy. SSH is one of them and I use it mostly, so how do I use it behind a proxy? CorkScrew Corkscrew is a simple tool to tunnel TCP connections through […]
Gnome is a nice desktop I’ve been with lately and easily configured, fonts are cool but its been me looking for a better font for my system. In the quest of getting better font, I got 3 of them which I love most and deciding to share. It may be useful to you too, below […]
Cool features in Gmail makes it cool and primary Email service for most people. It made life easier for me when I could manage all my email accounts in different email servers. Let me explain this: You have your other email accounts probably a Webmail (a custom email account of your domain name) and you […]
Some people have smartphones and Tabs, we know there’s Google but not everyone makes the best out of it. People are always on the Go! People move out every day, and they look for things to get instantly at their locations. What if I told you that there’s now a platform that solves this, where […]
Write once, run everywhere. A friend has been struggling with this and I’m here to help 😀 . It’s been long and I decided to stretch out and use the opportunity to update my blog 😛 This is simple – view on Git USAGE:
In an app development I needed to use my system resolvers which is different from my ISP default resolver, and Python keeps taking my ISP resolver. I decided to put up this simple function to get resolvers for me in /etc/resolv.conf, here is it: https://github.com/donjajo/py-world/blob/master/resolvconfReader.py I hope this helps
Installation of a new system I faced an error on Grub installation, all I had to do was to skip the grub installation while having the main root system installed in the drive. An example of an error like this: Skip the grub installation and finish other installation parts, now we are going to boot […]
Moved to Debian 8 recently because it has been my dream to use Debian as an OS of choice, reason is because of the name…funny though but it’s true, once I heard the name I fell in love with it 😀 Installed Debian 8 and noticed they repositories were not available making it not able […]