TechnoTony Wiki - Tony Tascioglu's personal public knowledge-base! https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/ 2026-04-12T00:24:22+00:00 https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/ https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2023-03-27T03:12:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/backups_and_data?rev=1679886750 Backups and Data Backups Borg Borg Parity Parity and Par2 Compression XZ/ZSTD I used to use XZ for compressing tar files. As of 2021-01, I have switched to ZStandard since it offers the same or slightly better ratio with -22, with MUCH faster decompression. I will try to do a larger writeup and comparison in the future. text/html 2023-04-02T04:25:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/i3?rev=1680409512 i3 is a tiling display manager for Linux based systems. Sometimes, there are handy options you can add to the config which I will list here. i3 config Trying to configure i3 but missing common functionality? Here are some helper commands I use! Open certain programs in floating mode text/html 2022-04-26T07:53:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/latex?rev=1650959610 LaTeX This is a compilation in progress of handy LaTeX shortcuts and packages. Including stuff Inline code Use lstlisting \usepackage{listings} \definecolor{dkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.6,0} \definecolor{gray}{rgb}{0.5,0.5,0.5} \definecolor{mauve}{rgb}{0.58,0,0.82} \lstset{frame=tblr, language=C, aboveskip=3mm, belowskip=3mm, showstringspaces=false, columns=flexible, basicstyle={\tiny\ttfamily}, numbers=left, numberstyle=\tiny\color{gray}, identifierstyle=\color{black}, keywordstyle=\color… text/html 2025-03-11T02:28:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/linux_multimedia?rev=1741660128 Desktop Experience PulseAudio modules Just making this short section to put a reference to the documentation for all modules. It lists all parameters for the different modules and might be of use. <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/> Microphone Loopback If you're recording something and want to be able to hear something, then you can load the pulseaudio loopback module. text/html 2024-09-09T05:48:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/supermicro_serial_over_ipmi_ssh?rev=1725860897 Access Serial Loopback through Supermicro IPMI over SSH Accessing the serial port over IPMI is super useful for remote managing servers. You can make Linux boot up over the serial port, so you can see what's happening in the boot process or login even if the server has no network access meaning no regular SSH. text/html 2025-03-19T07:04:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/useful_programs?rev=1742367891 Useful Programs Here are some sometimes-handy programs: There are many that I don't even need to shout-out, they're quite well known such as youtube-dl, mpv, ffmpeg, vlc, so on. zed it's like vscode but substantially faster at parsing everything. bonus has copilot support and remote sessions like vscode text/html 2022-06-12T04:14:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tonytascioglu.com/scripts/working_with_websites?rev=1655007242 Working with Websites Some great tools for web or internet stuff I like. Tools Downloading * curl (great for testing HTTP requests) * aria2c (great for faster downloads via multiple threads) * httrack (mirrors websites but really slow) *