uBlock Origin
Posted: 2019-09-30 Filed under: misc | Tags: adblock, addons, block, chromium, firefox, google chrome, mozi, origin, uBlock 1 CommentI was never too happy with the different web browser Ad Blockers, but I was too busy to actively start searching for different options. There was a discussion on LQ about browsers, where uBlock Origin was discussed. So, I decided to give it a try.
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XFS: corruption of in-memory
Posted: 2019-08-05 Filed under: misc | Tags: corruption, in-memory data, XFS, xfs_check, xfs_do_force_shutdown, xfs_repair Leave a commentWell… one of my partitions, on a SSD, suddenly died. I’ve been building packages in a virtual machine (VB 5.2.28 r130011) of Slackware 14.2 x86_64. All was going fine until my desktop, the host machine, completely froze. Could not go to another runlevel or anything. In the end, I pushed the reset button, and upon boot my /home partition (sda3) did not mount.
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Cropping an image in Inkscape
Posted: 2019-07-19 Filed under: misc | Tags: clip, crop, inkscape Leave a commentLately, I’ve been processing a lot of imaging data in Inkscape. This included arranging imported pictures, setting their size, proportions and more. I needed an easy way to crop images that have been already imported in Inkscape. Usually, I would just make sure that everything is in the correct size before importing. Well, pedantic as this might be, it is time consuming.
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Browser fonts
Posted: 2019-06-30 Filed under: misc, network | Tags: fonts Leave a commentI have been switching between browsers lately and realised I am really tied to a certain set of fonts. So, for my own future reference here they are.
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Seven years for Slackalaxy
Posted: 2019-05-31 Filed under: misc Leave a commentYep… It has been 7 years.
I recently switched to Premium plan, that’s why I’ve been customizing a few things, messing with CSS of the theme. With this post I have 188 altogether.
