Karel 2023 Reloaded
About 7 years ago, I wrote a post how to run Stanford University’s Karel robot which is used in their highly popular online CS106a course. While it’s been 16 years
Category: Uncategorized
Importing a local git repository into GitLab
Before decommissioning my gitolite server, which I had in production since 2015, I cloned all repositories to a local machine. The tricky question now is: How can I reimport these
Bacularis Installation and Configuration Notes
Bacularis is a fully loaded Bacula CE suite that comes with a successor of highly popular Baculum GUI. It can be installed by a one-liner Docker command thereby short-cutting hours
Logging in Mayan EDMS
Whenever I stumbled around excerpts from error logs on the Mayan EDMS user forum, I asked myself, where and how to access these log files on my system. People happily
Moving Mayan EDMS from Direct Deployment to Docker
1. Present situation I currently have 4 different Mayan installations running: 1 on a physical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS server and 3 others on Ubuntu 20.04 servers, each of the 3
Ubuntu 20.04+ Server Admin Cheat Sheet
The following is a collection of handy commands for the Ubuntu 20.04 server administration: Changing network configuration Most of the network configuration is stored in /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml. In my configuration, the
Simple backup solution for Mayan EDMS
When it comes to backing up Mayan, we essentially have to back up two components: The /opt/mayan-edms/media directory The PostgreSQL database Remote storage location First thing we need is a
Upgrading Raspbian from Buster to Bullseye
About 2 years ago, I already posted an article on upgrading Raspbian from Stretch to Buster. Now it’s time to move from Buster to Bullseye. Here’s a quick walk-through: 1.
Restrict document access for users in Mayan EDMS
1. Situation / Problem There are two (or more) organizational units. Each org unit uses Mayan to manage its documents. Each unit should only see and work on its own
Creating a custom Entry widget in PyGtk for use with Glade
The GtkEntry widget is pretty dumb: Whatever input is sent to the entry field (whether by user input or by the set_text method) is treated as a String. Time to