Tons of people ask how to disable baloo. Some jokers say to uninstall dolphin (that's a silly notion). There are many reasons for why someone wants to remove baloo. The most common reason seems to be that many are frustrated with the performance impact that it has on their computer. This brings me to support help/suggestions from the Internet. The problem that I encounter most in reading Linux support suggestions is that so many people suggest the same solution. That's fine, however most people give you incomplete suggestions. They often leave things out (such as the paths to folder/files), and often they fail to state which program is used to remove/disable/edit -- fix. Why did I want to remove baloo? In my case my computer would freeze every minute or…

Manjaro was supposed to solve an issue that my Kubuntu installation had. After upgrading to 22.04 of Kubuntu the whole thing failed to connect to any remote desktop, local or remote. I had a Manjaro install on another computer. It had no issues with its latest updates. For this reason, as well as others, some of which are philosophical, I chose to switch to Manjaro. Some of those other issues are: I'm not interested in Snaps, Appimages, or Flatpacks and don't want Canonical dictating that I have to have Snaps. In the latest 22.04 they forced you to use a snap. They uninstalled the Firefox app and instead installed Firefox as a Snap. If you tried it you may have found that this caused Firefox to load incredibly slow. The…

Microsoft released the Xbox series of consoles. My guess is that these are decent game machines. They seem to be designed well and the self-documentation as well as community documentation is pretty good. In contrast, if you remember back to the Xbox 360 days with the overheating issues and the red ring of death and the fact that Microsoft took a huge hit repairing/replacing them (multiple times sometimes) you'll acknowledge that they spent a great deal of money -- and in the end they didn't show their competence. Microsoft protects their systems from hacks. Meaning they try to lock them down so that users can't hack them and make them do things that they weren't supposed to do. We all can understand the desire to ensure that gamers don't cheat.…

The concensus seems to be that adding any software to your router is a bad idea, however, it is clear that pfsense has added software to their router, for instance, they add vim (a conceptually outdated editor that requires practice to use and is difficult for all but old hat Unix stalwarts to use). One other is that pfsense uses a very outdated shell. They use /bin/sh. Most distributions of Linux and such have moved on to products such as zsh (Apple does with their version of BSD), and bash (which itself is infrequently updated and quite dated). I set out to be able to get zsh installed for my account (can only get in with RSA keys), to allow me to do a bit more and have a more…

For the always free option you get a public IP and have a limit of 2 cores and 1gb of RAM with .5gb bandwidth. Not sure what that later part means. I set it up and decided that I didn't like the crappy hostname. I set out to change that. Go to the burger menu on the left and click "Compute", then "Instances", then "Instances Details". Then click the edit button and change the instance name. Once changed you can then reboot the instance. When it comes up it should have the new hostname. I also edited the /etc/hostname file and changed it to the name that matched what I put in the webUI.

I use Yakuake to drop down a terminal window and with the keyboard that I have I set the drop down hotkey to the tilde key. This caused a problem. My problem with doing that is that the keyboard, a Razer Blackwidow Chroma, has a macro key (M1) next to the tilde key, so, I often hit that key instead. That is very much an irritant. It appears that when I press it I get the quick settings menu. When I went looking for a way to change the application (quick settings) that was assigned to that key I could not find the way. Not knowing precisely what the quick settings is was frustrating. I decided on a work around, which was to basically unassign it by reassigning something else…

Evaluating CallerID (CID) based solely on the number is a design flaw of FreePBX. At FreePBX's heart it relies almost exclusively on the CID number instead of the CID name. Their design makes little allowance for evaluating the CID name. The Dynamic Route module changes this, as it allows you to evaluate the caller by looking at the name, and then allows you to route based on that (on either that alone or together with the number). There's a feature in the Inbound Route and the Ring Group (and maybe others) that allows you to set the CID Prefix (their description is "You can optionally prefix the CallerID name. ie: If you prefix with "Sales:", a call from John Doe would display as "Sales:John Doe" on the extensions that ring.").…

This article covers various things such as updating the system and the fallout from that, as well as using ZFS on an external USB device, and switching from SAMBA to NFS. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 that runs Proxmox. I have many containers. These work. When I configured it I set it up as ZFS on an external USB. This was a bad choice. I ended up wiping the external storage and switching from ZFS to EXT4. I was able to do this because I'd set up backups for the containers that triggered on a regular basis. But first I updated the system and ended up dealing with several other problems. After an update I noted that the system would not give me an IP address. So, I took…

I wanted to start this by saying that this process is a nightmare. Really it isn't a nightmare when you understand it. The problem is that this product's configuration setting to set up a new computer to use an old computer's .pst or .ost file is so confusing and the online explanations are so convoluted that a non-technical user may never figure it out. The key to understanding this is when you set up the account, the initial account (on the new computer during the first set up of Outlook), you need to do a couple of things. First, you have to set up using the manual options. The automatic options work but the assumptions that Microsoft makes is just garbage. If a server uses imap and you don't know…

On the proxmox server edit /etc/pve/user.cfg user:root@pam:1:0:::jim@domain.com::x: remove the x between the last two colons Proxmox 6 is similar.