Category: computing
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Beware the Hubris of FreeBSD
I hear a lot of very proud talk from various BSD zealots, mostly about how if you want better uptime/throughput/correctness, you should drop Linux like a rock crawling with centipedes and pick up the shinny golden nugget of FreeBSD. This will not work for me. While Linux might be “only good enough” in their eyes,…
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Backing up with tar or rsync? [Freedompenguin]
There’s a decision to make when you want to write your scripts when it’s time to back things up: use tar or rsync?
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Making Backups of What’s Recent
You probably don’t need to backup your whole hard drive every day. Just back up what you changed recently.
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Making a Non-Spamming Alert [FreedomPenguin]
I’ve sent a lot of pager alerts to myself over the years. Here is a technique you can use that could help you reduce duplicate notifications.
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Not My Favorite Xmas Card
I’ve been listening to a lot of WTR and other podcasts that interview people who dwell on the topics of inclusion and empathy in the technical work space. I listen to them because I want other people around me to succeed. I want my sons and daughters to feel welcomed to the sciences or computer…
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Crazy Times with zxfer
I’ve started using zxfer that @AllanJude referred me to recently. It does a nice job. My main difficulty was how to get it to work efficiently over the 10Mbps that’s my effective DSL speed. First, I made a copy of zxfer (zmxfer) that incorporates mbuffer. This is a crude hack, but helps me ensure that…
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Cleaning up /boot | FreedomPenguin
Here’s a good way to free up some disk space on an Ubuntu (or Debian) machine.
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Finding the Offending Directories | FreedomPenguin
Sometimes you really don’t want to back up certain things on a computer. I wrote this article to show how I diagnose when too much is being backed up.
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