Sometimes, we may need to restrict the internet access to a single application both for security reasons or testing purposes.
On Linux, there are different ways to restrict the internet access to a single program. Unfortunately, most of them, are not straightforward at all.
Posts published by “Francesco Mondello”
Every time I make a new install of Arch Linux on my Intel laptop, I notice a disturbing and annoying buzzing sound coming from my external speakers a few seconds after a playback is starter and then stopped. This is a common problem and the cause is a power saving feature on the Linux Kernel.
In this tutorial we will see how to mute Spotify ads on Arch Linux with a very simple and lightweight script I found on GitHub called Spotify-AdKiller.
Some time ago, I wrote a tutorial on how to reinstall Grub on Arch Linux after installing Windows.
A few weeks ago, I had to reinstall Arch Linux from scratch on my laptop and I discovered installing Grub was not as straightforward as I remembered.
I'm happy to announce Converseen 0.9.6.2 is now available into Danish language thank to Martin Elisoe who kindly helped me in growing this project with a brand new localization.
Today, Raspberry Pi celebrates 5 years from the launch of its first version in 2012 launching a new product: the Raspberry Pi Zero W.
If you are running a web server or a VPS, you may encounter the need of sending emails using your PHP application.
In the same way, if you are running a Wordpress blog or you are using any kind of CMS and you would allow your visitors to send you emails using a Contact form (for example using the Contact Form 7 plugin for Wordpress) you may need to install a simple program into your web server called sendmail.
Today, the Kde team announced the first minor release for Kde Plasma 5.9 including various little but important bugfixes and translation updates. Certainly, this first small bugfix release will improve the stability and usability of the desktop environment.
Global Menu is one of the most interesting features of Kde Plasma 5.9, the latest major release of the Kde Desktop Environment.
Global Menus allow the user to have the application menu into the application itself, as a titlebar button or into a widget panel placed at the top of the screen.
Global Menu is a very exciting feature a user would like to try, but unfortunately, for some reasons, enabling it may be a bit complicated if you don't know where to search.
As an Arch Linux and Kde lover, I'm pleased to let you know that the new Kde Plasma 5.9 is finally available into the stable repository.
As you may know, this new major release of Plasma Desktop is bringing a lot of new and interesting features as Global Menus, a feature I'm very curious to try.