I still haven't completely solved the problem of my PC sometimes failing to resume from sleep, and when it happens it acts as if it had crashed and then just starts up normally. This means I wan't to check the disks to make sure the file system is all OK. This can be done on Slackware by creating a...
Update: Changed the method for finding the latest version
I had been using a script which kept youtube-dl up to date automatically, but youtube-dl doesn't seem to have received an update for a long time. It still works, but very slowly for some reason. I have now found yt-dlp which seems to...
I decided to play around with keycloak and use OpenLDAP as the backend to store the user details. That sounds like a pretty simple thing to set up, and actually it was - that is until I noticed that when I modify a password in keycloak then it gets stored in plain text in the ldap database. Goog...
It seem that Slackware and Steam don't always play well together at the moment.
The other day I had problems with CS:GO getting stuck, and now I have found EAC games don't work, and also don't give a helpful error message. This is what I get whenever trying to start an EAC game:
And lookin...
A recent update has broken csgo so it's not updating the screen. It seems that it is a change to X11 though and not a Steam or CS:GO update. The screen only refreshes as long as you are moving your mouse or pressing a key which makes it very hard to play. I have this problem on Slackware64-current b...
I have a USB Bluetooth adapter on my PC which works fine, apart from after my PC is woken up from sleep or suspend - and then my Bluetooth is turned off untill I manually turn it back on again. There are plenty of fixes on google which involve setting kernel command line parameters, or module parame...
Update: It looks like youtube-dl is getting maintained again, See the message on github. So this script is hopefully going to have something to download again soon :) My yt-dlp script didn't always seem to work right.
There is a SlackBuild available for youtube-dl at https://slackbuilds.or...
One thing that has always annoyed me in Slackware is that /tmp never gets automatically cleared so I end up with with lots of space wasted in there. Especially after building lots of SlackBuilds and filling up /tmp/SBo :). I sometimes looked in there to clean it up manually and hope I don't delete s...
Thunderbird 91 was recently released, and this version adds support for Google Calendar without requiring an addon. I use my Google Calendar a lot so was happy when Thunderbird in Slackware current got updated. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with installing addons on the Slackware packag...
Piper is a Linux application that lets you change the settings of your gaming mouse. It can currently be used to set what the buttons to, change the DPI and reporting rate, and set the LED colors. Piper is actually just a GUI for the libratbag project which does all the actual work of changing th...
