Category: Linux
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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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Notes on Updating Centos7 to 4.3.3
Upgrades! Sometimes they are a lot of homework. Enabled Centos-Plus repos and elrepo for recent kernels. I figured out I want to install kernel-ml, kernel-ml-headers, kernel-ml-devel. That last one escaped me but is necessary because you need it when you do a dkms install. So after updating that stuff, I was able to dkms install…
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Thot on Linux Video Editing
The other night I ran thru what might be the gamut of video editors because kdenlive was crashing on me. I’m going to run down this list. Openshot: am finding it doesn’t import clips and align tracks to base audio comfortably. Did not like having to right-click-properties for fade-in, fade-out this and thats. Pitivi: gave…
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Ubuntu 15.10 and ZFS
Some quick thots on doing this for my workstation: I have six 2TB drives in raid 10 zfs pool, and they would not import to 15.10 because 15.10 ships with (or tries to) zfs 0.6.4.2 I decided on /boot, swap, /, mdadm partitions for OS install needed to do 15.10 server cmdline install for mdadm…
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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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Applying patches?
You know me, I love using bash. for f in ~/Documents/jbr_patches/*diff ; do \ echo $f; patch -p1 < $f || exit 1; \ sleep 1 ; done Right.
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