Category: Linux
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Adopting Complexity
Becoming a grey beard geek has involved adopting complexity. Some would assume unnecessary complexity… But other recognize ideal underneath the tangle: a challenge to master. Setting yourself a regular challenge keeps your hopes set higher than the horizon. Geek on!
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Updated Bash CPU Meter
In August, I did a post on a pretty simple bash cpu meter. This one is still Intel-only, but is records the range of frequencies used during a report. #!/bin/bash COLWID=17 MAXTURBO=4200 function find_lines { local i=0 local j=0 while read line; do if [[ $line =~ cpu\ MHz ]]; then cpu[i]=$j ((i++)) fi ((j++))…
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LZOP is my friend
I’ve been doing a lot of disk cloning lately, working up instructions for duplicating a “sysprep” style Fedora image for the LANforge product. Now that live CDs tend to allow live installation of packages, I can boot one, plugin in a stick with the archive of my raw image, and install pv and lzop and…
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Beyond Memory Testing | FreedomPenguin
Chapter three, wherein I determine the cause of my workstation problems.
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Build OpenZFS on Ubuntu 16.04 from git
I have to import a zpool from one Ubuntu workstation with recent features to a new Ubuntu workstation. The new workstation being a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 Server install. It only has ubuntu-mate-desktop and build-essentials installed. Below is an aggregation of some of the apt install commands I preformed to get things going: apt install dkms…
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Fixing file-system corruption (freedompenguin.com)
Here I start a series of posts talking about my home workstation getting file system corruption.
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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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