Category: computing
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FreedomPenguin…Out of the Box!
Beta launch of FreedomPenguin. Find my intro post. Please suggest topics you want my take on!
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Finally, actual faulty RAM
How many times have I run this on computers and ram wasn’t the problem? Most.
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Bummed about pixels
CSS media queries are kinda bummed but I think I see the point. The point being: a pixel is now considered whatever the hell a pixel is, and points, picas and inches are only accurate in print media, not screen media. This is because the computer manufacturers out there are not interested in providing a…
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Heard of Freedom Penguin?
Freedom Penguin is Matt Hartley’s soon to open blog project. I’ll be writing some posts there regularly. If you want to learn a bit more about computers each week, or to laugh, or to shake your head at me, please pop your email into the subscribe box on this post. Freedom…out of the box!
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Happy People at LinuxFest Northwest 2015
I only had about 45 minutes to take a few pictures (and grab a beer) at LFNW after party. Other years I’ve had more time, more pictures. This is what I got.
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Anaconda has not really gotten better.
Consider the workflow: it does not ask you if you want to remove an old installation. It does not indicate that if you need to create LVM raid1 volumes, how you should do that. It does not offer any shortcuts on creating a mirrored LVM partitioning scheme. You get bullshit errors like ‘raid1 requires two…
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Mbuffer Trickery
Am rather disappointed that mbuffer isn’t shipped in CentOS 7. Easy enough to install, but seriously useful to have updated software in this day in age. Anyhow, to use mbuffer for a long transfer where an outgoing connection was the only option, I finally found a situation where I wanted to use a fifo. dmzhost$…
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My Terminal Prompt
Some of you might wet your pants in fear of this pictures. It is the anti-MAC. You bore me.
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Profiling Perl
Often we write perl scripts that loop a particular action. Not so often we write a perl script that is called in a loop by another tool. My script was attempting to do a http web login to emulate user traffic. However, I was not able to start more than 8 of these scripts a…
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