So, based on everything I’ve found, you can’t. In my opinion this is a shortcoming of using netplan versus the old way of simply using ifupand ifdown. This is in many ways super frustrating as it’s like the developers took the stance of “why on would anyone ever want to Read more…
Every now and then it can be necessary to disable certain security features temporarily in order to achieve a goal. In my case, it was for the use of a web script that didn’t use HTTPS for composer that I did not have the time to update. Composer allows you Read more…
Every now and then it is necessary to set up a connection forwarding from external to inside the system perhaps to a docker instance where the internal IP for the docker is a completely separate subnet from your host system (192.168.*.* vs 172.16.*.* for example) . One possible way to Read more…
vim is a wonderful text editor. Wait. What? emacs? who uses that anyhow… 😉 I recently needed to do a quick search and replace on ALL punctuation within a file and decided to use vim in combination with regex to complete the task and post a quick how-to here. First, Read more…
UPDATE 20 SEP 2020: As it goes, this remains a problem as autoremove is simply not a well rounded solution for this. Yes, autoremove will remove old kernels, but it also removes other software and libraries that can still be in use. It doesn’t seem to perform all the proper Read more…
When attempting to identify certain aspects of events on a system the Event Viewer MMC snap-in may not make the cut. Fortunately there are other ways to search events that are a little more robust than what the filtering mechanism in Event Viewer provides. Step in PowerShell (as seems to Read more…
There are so many ways to slice, dice, parse, and of course search through files in Linux. This is but one of those ways. What makes this method fancy is that it we go from finding and printing contents of all the files found to listing the columns related to Read more…