Automatically reconnect sshfs

Posted on 2020-06-10 by

I’ve been using sshfs to mount a remote folder between computers in my home networks. Sometimes I switch from WiFi to wired connection or the other way around. This causes Thunar to freeze, if I had forgotten to unmount the remote folder. Which I almost always forget to do and it becomes quite annoying.
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Firefox: disable click and hold requirement

Posted on 2020-06-01 by

One if the things I noticed first with Firefox was the weird (for me) right click behaviour. I need to right click and hold, otherwise the mouse cursor will automatically click on the menu. That’s not something I want to get used to.
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Eight years for Slackalaxy

Posted on 2020-05-31 by

It has been 8 years, since I started my humble blog. With this post, I have 208 altogether.

Well, that’s it.

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Firefox: window decoration and snippets

Posted on 2020-05-30 by

I’ve been looking back to Firefox recently, after the latest release of Chrome showing some weird behavior. I am still not sure I want to change my browser, at least not until I am sure I can set it up to my liking. I have not used it for years and the interface have changes quite a bit, successfully mimicking Chrome. Anyway, upon start there were two things that I wanted to change immediately: the window decoration and the so called snippets.
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Copying MBR

Posted on 2020-04-30 by

I’ve been doing some disk partitions cloning between disks of different size. I needed to copy the master boot record (MBR), where LILO is, from one disk to another. I searched a bit and found a handy tutorial.
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