Technology

Modify an OmniOS service parameters

       376 words, 2 minutes

I was today years old when I needed to change some of the parameters of my Prometheus service on OmniOS. It runs via pkgsrc and the provided SMF. And modifying the running parameters is not as simple as editing an rc.d file.

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Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam

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When it comes to getting an OpenBSD virtual machine, you can go to your preferred Linux VPS provider and hack its rescue mode to install OpenBSD. Or you can go to a VPS provider that offers booting from an ISO file and getting access to the console. In that case, you’d probably get an OpenBSD VM running on KVM. Which is not that bad. But you can also book your VM from OpenBSD Amsterdam and let the 100% OpenBSD journey begin.

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WindowMaker 2024 - Graphite Light theme

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It is 2024 and people are still using Window Maker, the X11 window manager that reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NeXTSTEP user interface . One of them does not live in 1997 any more and has an irresistible love for flat themes.

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Printing on HP Color Laser 150nw from OpenBSD

       683 words, 4 minutes

I got an HP Color Laser 150nw wireless printer some time ago and never really tried to use it with OpenBSD. Mostly because printers are… printers. But after discovering that it works well on my wife’s Slackware Linux laptop (better than on Windows 10), I decided to give it a try using OpenBSD.

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Execute current edited script in Vim

       72 words, 1 minutes

When you edit a script using Vim, you may want to run the script without actually quitting the editor. This is easily done using the following Vim command: <Esc>:!%<Enter> Once the script has run, Vim will display its output and pause until you Press ENTER or type command to continue. That’s all. It is published here so that I don’t have to query stackoverflow the next time I forget about it 🤣

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