Monday, August 29, 2011

How to change to LXDM and Openbox in OpenSuSE

If you like really minimalistic desktop environment you can try LX Desktop Manager and Openbox as your Window Manager. Here you'll find out how to configure all the necessary things.

Friday, August 19, 2011

SSH public key distribution and management

Recently I was working on a script which enables the distribution and management of public SSH keys to remote machines. If you need to distribute lots of keys or to delete lost of keys, this automation tool would be interesting for you.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Server availability monitoring with email notifications

I was searching for some tool to monitor availability of a computer in the network. Found some solutions, but they wasn't really satisfying. That's why I wrote this simple script inspired by one script I found.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Wrapper for googlecl calendar

Recently I was searching for tool to keep my TODO list synchronized with my laptop and my mobile phone. One simple and effective solution is to use googlecl tool to manage the calendar entries. I've written a simple wrapper to make it really easy to work with googlecl and to use it as a simple TODO list for console.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Remastering shell

Here you will find basic and more advanced shell (console) usage and some tips to make your work more effective and to save you some time.

IP Validator

This is a simple script, which validates IP addresses, converts them into binary form and assign to an IP class.

Monday, June 20, 2011

KDE 4.6 - kmix eating up CPU

It happened to me few times, the CPU load was high because kmix was pretty hungry. It also stopped responding. The problem was in the corrupted profile file.