Olakanmi Oluwole

EDIT: This is my 4th post lol.


One way or the other i stumbled upon this,

Mimic Troll

Save this for the Office Wars.

Sup, This is my 3rd post.

For long, i have wanted to try the XFCE desktop environment and i eventually decided to install it on my computer.

To install XFCE, i did

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4

After installing it without errors, i logged out and logged back in using the xfce session.
It looked nice, i played around it, it felt good.

My problem arose when i logged back into my computer later on with gnome, thunar was made my default manager and i didn't like thunar.

I opened up my terminal and checked my current file manager

xdg-mime query default inode/directory 
  
It showed nautilus but thunar was still my default file manager

HOW I FIXED IT

i opened my terminal and removed thunar
sudo apt-get remove thunar

I then tried to access my home folder and got a dioalog box asking to chose a default file manager.

I picked my favorite nautilus and all was weel again. I then installed thunar back.
sudo apt-get install thunar 

Who knows when it might be useful.

Hello again !!!

This is my second blog post, and hopefully, i will be able to keep track of the number of post i make as time goes on.

Ok ok ok, enough talking.

In case you dont know, one of many of the few languages i write (i know how that sounds lol) is Python. I'm not going to give any introduction, there are more than enough resources out there if you are interested in it.

That by the way, i had a problem.

YOU:  what problem?
ME:    i needed to upgrade all my packages
YOU:  ohh. so how did you do it?

ME:    simple. i use pip to install all my packages so following a tutorial online would be
          walkover. i went to our favorite search engine and put my query.
          After looking around, i found a good one liner solution


SOLUTION
I use a flavor of GNU/Linux as my operating system
I opened up my terminal and typed

python -c 'import pip, subprocess; [subprocess.call("pip install -U " + d.project_name, shell=1) for d in pip.get_installed_distributions()]'

I would love to explain this more to you, but i'm at work and don't have that much time.
1- "python" from the code above is a program installed on my box already
2- "-c" argument which allows you pass in small codes as a string from your bash terminal
3- Every other thing are python codes
4- import is a python statement to include other python codes into your code
5- pip is a python package  i want to include
6- subprocess is another python package  i want to include
7- "call()" is a function defined in the subprocess package and what it does is to take commands you can run in your terminal and run it for you.
8- "get_installed_distributions()"  is also a function defined in the pip package
9- the code also uses concatenation and loop concepts in python to get all installed packages and for each of them, concatenate it to "pip install -U " and use the call () function to run the command each time.
10- the amount of time it takes to update all installed packages depends on the amount of packages you have installed. Your Internet speed matters too.

TIP: to automate this process, paste the above code into a file and save as  a ".sh" and you could use cron jobs to run the file as frequently as you want.

So, 30 minutes after i started writing this post, my packages are still updating.

Hello there, this is my second blog. I abandoned my first blog for some reasons. it's pretty old too. You can check it out at http://blockbusterhitz.blogspot.com/ . I might resume posting on it later on in life but not today.

I'm a programmer, i do web stuffs but i wouldnt bother much on how this blog looks like.
It's just a placeholder for everyday contents of thinng i do on the Clearnet i think i should share. I also have a  blog on the darknet, but let's keep the dark things on the dark side.

errrhh, what else can i say??
ok, got onne!!

I will post some tech stuffs, solutions to problems i encountered and solved on my own or with external help. I will also post anything i like since it's my blog.

This is my first post, thank you for bearing with me.