ZSH is a great looking shell that integrates with Git, Docker and other tools using plugins.
Install ZSH by running the following in your terminal
sudo apt update
sudo apt install zsh
Check ZSH by running zsh --version and checking that a version is shown.
Install Homebrew, then install iTerm2, which allows for further customisation.
brew cask install iterm2
With each revision of hardware, Apple continually makes this more difficult for those that have to interact with Apple fans. One of the most annoying is the HEIC format for photos. Even Apple’s own Photos app in iCloud won’t allow HEIC photo uploads, so to make any of these photo useful the HEIC files need to be converted to JPEG form (.JPG).
Normally people take a lot of photos, so the conversion of the files is best done in bulk. Here are some tips for dealing with these bulk files.
The Ubuntu Settings app is very light on when looking at the power button and lid actions, excluding most of the options a Windows user has to change the customise button/lid actions between AC Power and battery power operation.
Fortunately there is an easy command line tool that allows these settings to be changes easily within the Gnome environment, gsettings.
To list all the available power options, open a terminal and type in
Linux Mint provides a little tool called Web Apps. This tool allows a web site to be sandboxed into a separate window, making a website look like an app.
This can be handy for a site like Google Messages for using phone SMSes on the PC, allowing this to be shown in its own distinct window rather than just another browser tab. Another example would be Clockify which, while a native Debian package is available, isn’t in standard package repositories and may have dependencies that aren’t installed on the system.
To create a new user account in Ubuntu, replace new_user with the username you want to add in the follow commands.
sudo -i
An interactive root session avoids a lot of sudo prefixes.
adduser new_user
will create the user account, prompting you for user details and a password.
usermod -a -G www-data new_user
will add them to the www-data group, such as for web admins. Replace www-data with the groups they should be a part of.
To track down Nodejs processes running on a server first run
netstat -lt
to list the ports that applications are listening on. This may show port 31044 is listening, for example.
Next, find the processes that are listening on those ports with
netstat -anp 2> /dev/null | grep :31044
This may return a process id like 7392/server.js - then look up the details of this process id with
To mount a Windows share using the command line in a Debian based distribution, first ensure that cifs-utils is installed. If it isn’t, run
sudo apt install cifs-utils
To mount a share, run
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=userName,domain=DOMAIN //serverName/shareName /mnt/path
replacing userName, DOMAIN, serverName and shareName and the mount path as appropriate. If the Windows workstation/server is not part of a domain, the domain parameter can be omitted.
Logitech provide the Logitech G software for managing LEDs and other settings on keyboards and mice. Unfortunately this isn’t available for Linux.
There is a command line tool called g810-led that can fill this gap (https://github.com/MatMoul/g810-led). To install this on Ubuntu run:
sudo apt install g810-led
After installation you will probably need to reboot for the software to recognise the keyboard.
To list the keyboards that the software can see run
Windows Subsystem for Linux allows a development environment to be set up locally without the need for virtual machine hosts.
First, install the WSL feature. Click Start , type ‘Windows features’ and click the Turn Windows Features On or Off item. Tick the Windows Subsystem for Linux option and click OK. The feature will be install, then you will need to restart the PC.
Disposing of a PC, selling it on or giving it away leaves a security risk if the drive isn’t wiped of old data.
Often this can be done easily with an application like MiniTool Partition Wizard for Windows, easicially if you are able to plug the drive into another PC, or are just dealing with an external drive.
There are times, though, when a drive needs to be wiped and there is no OS on the PC, or you need to deal with a RAID controller or SAS drive or other hardware that can’t easily be swapped into a working PC.
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