Ever so often the need to create a password hash for a htauth file comes up. I then start the process of finding the cli command I need. These searches are usually less helpful than I want…..coming up with the correct search has been non-trivial. Command: htpasswd -nb username password man htpasswd synopsis: htpasswd [ -c ] [ -i ] [ -m | -B | -d | -s | -p ] [ -C cost ] [ -D ] [ -v ] passwdfile username htpasswd -b [ -c ] [ -m | -B | -d | -s | -p ] [ -C cost ] [ -D ] [ -v ] passwdfile username password htpasswd -n [ -i ] [ -m | -B | -d | -s | -p ] [ -C cost ] username htpasswd -nb [ -m | -B | -d | -s | -p ] [ -C cost ] username password

One thing I’ve wanted to do for a while now is utilize SaltStack, so over this weekend I’ve done that. Understanding how it works together is still hard, but it is very versitile and will make for a great tool. Tags

letsencrypt certonly --manual -c ./isntall-cli.ini rsync -avhP --copy-links /etc/letsencrypt/live/isntall.us /etc/ssl/private/le/ Just a quick how-to for future references

Another one of those super useful keys is the PRTSC. It has a job and it does it well that is until you want extended functionality. One such functionality was allowing others to see pic. There are things that do this like Dropbox, but those require you to give your data to a third-party. So back to the bash scripts. First I needed to get a working script…eventually I came up with these remote-screenshot.

One of the things I’ve greatly missed, since switching my home machines to Linux, was the program NaturalReader. It sounded fairly realistic and had decent integration with the OS. And it was the program that got me thru college. Needing to do more reading than normal, I started to see what sorts of options there are for ArchLinux. I’ve dabbled with things like Orca before, but it was too heavy and didn’t do the one thing I wanted, which was the ability to highlight the text and have the computer read it to me.

With the advent of EFI, the Grub bootloader has become something that seems more trouble than it was worth. So I chose to use Gummiboot as my bootloader and all was well….until recently. I decided to switch my AUR package maintaining software from yaourt to pacaur, main for a change of pace. This tipped me off on a couple things that I was unaware of, mainly that several of my AUR packages were orphaned and not being maintained.

This process is fairly simple, though it can take some time depending on home much data is on the disk. # btrfs balance start -fv -dconvert=single -mconvert=single -sconvert=single /mnt/b2 # btrfs device delete /dev/sdb /mnt/b2 It worked while the pool was online, and also online on the root disk.