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Uninstall unremovable QNAP package

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Uninstall unremovable QNAP package

In recent QNAP firmware releases, there is a QPKG called “QTS SSL Certificate”, but I don’t want to use that and it just is in the way. But if you look at the context menu, there is no option to remove it.

Hugo as new blog software

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Why the change?

Previously I used flatpress for hosting this blog. But the software was already quite old and recently it was announced that it was officially dead. So I had to find a new way to publish my blogs. I liked flatpress because it didn’t need a database and used plain text files to store the information. The news item of flatpress being dead mentioned static gen, which create static websites. So I decided to look at those and chose hugo.

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

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Why does this happen?

When I logged in from my laptop to nameserver and ran nsvi, I got the following message:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_US:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_MEASUREMENT = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_PAPER = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_MONETARY = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_NAME = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_ADDRESS = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_NUMERIC = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_TELEPHONE = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_IDENTIFICATION = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LC_TIME = "nl_NL.UTF-8",
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to a fallback locale ("en_US.UTF-8").

But when I login from my normal computer, this does not happen.

During the search of a solution I found it was easy to trigger by using a simple perl command:

perl -e exit

Create an insert key on a HP Elitebook 1040G4

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No insert key

At my work I got a new laptop (HP Elitebook 1040 G4), which has a great performance, but is missing an insert key.

At least there are some extra keys on the keyboard I don’t use (pickup and hangup the telephone), so I decided to map one of those keys to create an insert key.

How to recognize the key

First I had to find out which keycode the key generated. Luckily it wasn’t mapped at all, so syslog mentioned the following when I pressed the hangup-key:

kernel: [ 2455.465336] atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x65 on isa0060/serio0).
kernel: [ 2455.465342] atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes 65 <keycode>' to make it known.
kernel: [ 2455.555867] atkbd serio0: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x65 on isa0060/serio0).
kernel: [ 2455.555868] atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes 65 <keycode>' to make it known.

Then I looked at the Archwiki and followed some of the steps. But the location of the default hwdb.d files in xubuntu is in /lib/udev/hwdb.d, which is different from Arch Linux. The default keyboard file (/lib/udev/hwdb.d/60-keyboard.hwdb) has a description how to update the udev config.

I manually tried to set the value with

setkeycodes 65 110
which resulted in a insert key in the terminal window.

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