This is just a quick tip on how to see all cookies stored in Firefox.

I have recently wondered about why network interfaces in Linux have these, at first glance, obscure names. I vaguely remember it used to be more like eth0, wlan0. So I found a bit more info about it, let’s summarize it here.

Awk is a useful tool for text processing. I’ve recently wanted to process a log generated by Network Manager. I’ll show you just a simple awk script that helped me get the data I wanted. I find it useful to get some practice in awk, so I’ll try out some awk oneliners here.

When using LightDM display manager, one also has to install a greeter. I’ve been using LightDM GTK Greeter, which is a light greeter that could be configured in a few ways. However, one of the things I want to change regularly is the greeter background, so I get a new picture on my login screen every week.

I’ve recently stumbled upon the following topic that seems interesting enough, so after some playing around with it, I’ve decided to summarize my own thoughts and write this article.

Have you ever experienced this annoying beep sound your PC speaker makes on error, in console and possibly on other places? This is the single most annoying thing I wanted to get rid off system-wide and for good. If you want to do the same, this short blog post might come in handy.

It is possible to forget to log out from a console, which might be a security risk. It would be nice to have a way to log out automatically if this happens.