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  • Going with Defaults

    Who makes most of their computing devices? A person who customizes the heck out of their hardware or software, or a person who uses their devices as delivered from the manufacturer? Although no one can use a device without no customization at all, I have recently started to prefer to use my operating systems and…

    September 1, 2017
  • Fix USB Drives after Using them as Startup Disks

    A problem I have encountered every time I use a USB drive as a Startup Disk, is that their block size get changed, and even gparted reports that it can’t fix the that. The following command will fix that.

    August 17, 2017
  • Enabling Bash Autocompletion in LXCs

    Bash autocompletion is disabled inside LXCs by default. This is how to enable it.

    May 6, 2017
  • මිනිසුන් ලෝකය ළඟදීම විනාශවේවි හෝ මහා ලොකු ඛේදවාචකයන්ට ගොදුරුවේවි යැයි සිතන්නේ ඇයි?

    ලෝකය එන්න එන්නම විනාශ මුඛයට යනවා යැයි සිතීම ලෝකයේ බොහෝ සමාජයන් හි දක්නට ලැබෙනවා. මෙසේ සිතීමට හේතුව තමන් මියගියාට පසුව එන පරම්පාරවන්ට හිමි වන ලෝකය තමන් දැනට සිටින ලෝකයට වඩා හොඳ එකක් වන බව සිතීමට මිනිසුන් දක්වන මැලි කමයි.

    November 26, 2016
  • Sri Lankan English Locale for Ubuntu (And other Linuxes)

    Sinhala (si_LK) is the only locale available for Sri Lanka in Ubuntu OS. While the Sinhala locale is not bad in itself, displaying “රු” in currencies, “පෙ.ව” and “ප.ව.” and Sinhala month and date names are a distraction, specially in terminal where Sinhala unicode rendering is not that good.

    November 21, 2016
  • I switched to Windows!?

    In my previous post, I told the story of buying a new laptop [1]. I immediately burned an Ubuntu 16.04 ISO to a USB Flash Drive and began the installing process. I tried to install it several times, but it failed at the final stage of the installation process, saying that it failed to install…

    November 4, 2016
  • I switched to a ASUS X555LI Laptop

    November 3, 2016
  • Assigning SSL using Let’s Encrypt to Websites Running in LXCs

    Let’s Encrypt is a great service that provide SSL Certificates free of charge. It intends to make more data transferred through the WWW secure.

    June 24, 2016
  • Hosting Multiple Applications in a Server, with Linux Containers (LXC)

    Using Linux Containers (LXC) is a good way to host multiple applications in a single server with separation of resources and applications.

    June 19, 2016
  • Set up SSH Access into LXCs

    By default, it’s not possible to SSH into LXCs from outside, but we can accomplish that by setting up a SSH server in LXC and some port forwarding magic.

    June 19, 2016
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