Monthly Archives: January 2016

vdirsyncer + khal + khard

This set of tools allow to manage caldav and carddav collections from the cli. vdirsyncer is the one that syncs the collections. khal is used to visualise the .ics calendar files khard manages the .vcf contact files To install vdirsyncer the “easy and clean” way, pipsi install vdirsyncer And be sure to have lixml2-dev, libxlst-dev […]

SSH agent

To store an ssh key in the cache for the current session, pgrep ssh-agent If there is no ssh-agent instance ssh-agent and finally ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Manually install kernel in Debian derivatives

From https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/manually-upgrading-linux-libre-kernel-trisquel-6x: If your on a 64-bit installation download the following packages (or the latest kernel): linux-headers-x.xx.x-gnu_1.0_amd64.deb linux-image-x.xx.x-gnu_1.0_amd64.deb linux-source-x.xx.x-gnu_1.0_all.deb You can get these packages from (you’ll need to locate the directory that says linux-source-3.14.1-gnu, but the 3.14.1 part may be newer): http://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/freesh/pool/main/l/ Then open a terminal and run: sudo dpkg -i *deb Finally, sudo update-grub2

gnupg cache

In order to have gnupg cache your passwords from gpg-agent, you must set ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf use-agent and in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf default-cache-ttl 3600 (min) max-cache-ttl 3600 (min) which is the time the password will be kept in the cache, and the maximum time it can be kept.