Month: July 2022
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Finding Idle Cloud Desktops (Linux)
Suppose you’re hosting remote Linux desktops in your cloud environment and want to discover which ones could be able to shutdown to save on valuable resources like money, RAM, or CPU. Most Linux remote desktop protocols still utilize Xorg (as opposed to Wayland) for their display server. Prime examples would be tigervnc, tightvnc, or X2go.…
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Create SSL Cert and Key
Sometimes during development you may find yourself needing an SSL certificate and key to test with. I’ve had to do this so much I went ahead and added the below function to my ~/.bashrc file. Now, I can create certs on-the-fly without having to look it up in my notes. Here’s how it looks in…
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Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring
apt-key has been deprecated. Here’s a quick one-liner to fix the annoying message during apt-get update . Ideally, you’d want to pluck out each key using apt-key list then apt-key export <id> placing each key in it’s own file under /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d.