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Well, like the title says, this is my setup update for February 2016. Planing to get 2 more Dell P2414H displays in the near future and get rid of this Samsung one.

Protecting your ownCloud instance from bots pawning on its login form is certainly a good idea and fail2ban can help you with that. This post will guide you through how to install fail2ban on CentOS 7 box, configure ownCloud filter and start using it. ...

So, today I finally made some time to upgrade my OwnCloud instance. It’s been bugging me for an update for quite some time now but I just haven’t had time to do it. Besides the lack of time I have had some issues with (by now ex) VPS provider regarding disk performance, but that’s the story on its own. ...

I have been using LastPass as my password manager for quite some time and I was very happy with it. In the matter of fact I was so happy with it that I recommended it to anybody and everybody, even if they didn’t asked me about it. So what changed my mind about LastPass? ...

If you use Fedora and have Gnome Tweak tool installed you probably noticed that there are few default extensions which you probably don’t need or want to use. Since some of them are installed as packages from system repository “Remove” option beside them is grayed out and that’s what grinds my gears! ...

Yes, I switched to Firefox! In the matter of fact that happened two or three months ago, but I’ll not talk about that right now because that’s an article on its own. Instead of that this article will focus on how to enable HTML5 HD video playback on Youtube. If you tried using Firefox without Flash, and watching videos on YouTube just with built-in HTML5 video capabilities of your browser you probably noticed that video resolution is limited to 360p, and frankly, that sucks....

In Fedora Workstation (using Gnome 3) keyboard shortcut for changing input source defaults to using Super+Space key combination and Super+Shift+Space for switching it back. But what happens if you want to use your “modifiers” to change your keyboard layout? Launching System Settings and changing keyboard shortcuts won’t allow you to use “modifier only” shortcuts, you’ll need to specify one more “regular” key for it to accept your new shortcut. Some guides are suggesting that you can change this option via Gnome Tweak tool but unfortunately I don’t see this option, do you?...

Immediately after I switched to Fedora on my main machine I noticed that I can’t SSH into other machines on my local network via their hostname. ...

This blog post will talk about how to set up Nvidia proprietary drivers on your Fedora 22 Workstation, or at least how I did it ;-) Detect your Nvidia card model: lspci |grep -i VGA Switch to root (or execute rest of the commands with sudo priviledges: su Update your system and reboot after that: dnf update -y reboot Enable RPM Fusion repositories: dnf install -y https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-22.noarch.rpm https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-22.noarch.rpm Install Nvidia drivers (8 + series of cards are supported):...

I switched to the new Fedora 22 release and it feels good ;-) Here’s screenshot from my laptop: