Comparing Krita packaging size
Every time a new version of Krita is released I see somewhere a post where someone liststhe output of their distribtion package manager and complains about the number of dependencies and the...
View ArticleHow I chased down a PHP mode indention bug in Emacs
I was getting irritated by emacs refusing to indent php code properly when I was working on a MediaWiki extension. I’ve run into this before, but, today, in order to procrastinate a little, I ran into...
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Virtual Pi
Every time I screw up badly, I end up having to go through to the house, swap SDs on the Raspberry Pi and start another backup. AND I’m told by our friend from Raspbian that I should not be doing this...
View ArticleDeduplication of old filesystems
Modern filesystems, and even storage systems, might have built-in deduplication, but common filesystems still do not. So checking for redundant data and do deduplication when possible might save disk...
View ArticleMcAfee Takes Six Months To Patch Remote Code Exploit In Linux VirusScan...
mask.of.sanity writes: A researcher has reported 10 vulnerabilities in McAfee's VirusScan Enterprise for linux that when chained together result in root remote code execution. McAfee took six months...
View ArticleOne-upping the NES Classic Edition with the Raspberry Pi 3 and RetroPie
Our custom RetroPie gaming box and a decent replica of the SNES gamepad. Andrew Cunningham The Raspberry Pi 3: the heart of our little box. Andrew Cunningham The Pi 3 is a good fit for two reasons: its...
View ArticleRadio taken a back seat
I’ve finished work for the remainder of the year and its a good time to take stock. I had a lot of plans, most of which didn’t happen as a result of some over optimism on the planning front so what...
View Article开启TCP BBR拥塞控制算法，加倍提升Linux服务器性能
BBR 目的是要尽量跑满带宽, 并且尽量不要有排队的情况, 效果并不比速锐差 最新 4.9 内核已支持 tcp_bbr 下面简单讲述如何开启 Debian 8 / Ubuntu 14 下载最新内核,最新内核查看 这里 wget...
View ArticleDUSK - Dave's Unofficial Slackbuilt Kernels
The linux kernel has recently had an unusually large number of ‘minor’ releases. Given the warnings and media hype that accompanies some of these releases, people quite reasonably wonder how many of...
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Incursion into "explorable explanations" lands | Red Programming Language ...
A few days ago, Nicky Case released an amazing piece of work in form of an interactive guide to alternative voting systems . This work follows the track of Brett Victor's famous research on explorable...
View ArticleRaspberry based Private Cloud?
Here is something that might be a little outdated already, but I hope it still adds some interesting thoughts. The rainy Sunday afternoon today finally gives the opportunity to write this little blog....
View Articlelinux下U盘状态检测
linux的文件系统是异步的，也就是说写一个文件不是立刻保存到介质（硬盘，U盘等）中，而是存到缓冲区内，等积累到一定程度再一起保存到介质中。如果没有umount就非法拔出U盘，程序是不知道的，fopen，fwrite等函数都依然返回正确，知道操作系统要把写介质的时候，才会提示I/O错误。可是很多数据都会因为这个不及时的错误报告而丢失。...
View Article码云推荐 | 基于 Linux 下的多进程 PHP 框架
php定时脚本小框架 叙述 闲来无聊,想写一个定时爬虫脚本,发现多个爬虫脚本并不能很好的集中维护,所以就开发了这个框架. 框架介绍 框架基于php的fork模块开发,所以说多个任务都是并发执行的. 目录结构 config/ 配置文件目录,例如数据库配置文件,定时任务配置文件 core/ 框架核心类目录 lib/ 公共类库目录 script/ 自定义定时任务脚本目录,也就是开发目录 tmp/...
View Article新版Linux的未来革命
新版linux的未来革命 昨天来源：电子工程世界 Google的Ara手机梦碎了，但就像是一粒麦子死了，落到Linux的肥沃开源土壤里，未来一定能开出一片颠覆世界的新麦田今年9月，传出了一个令开发者扼腕不已的消息，Google新成立的硬体部门副总裁Rick Osterloh以集中资源为由，终止了Google发展3年的模组化手机Ara专案。这是一个源自Motorola...
View ArticleGeckoLinux 422.161213 发布，openSUSE 衍生版
Geckolinux 422.161213 发布了。GeckoLinux 从 openSUSE 发行衍生而来，其特点是优雅性和面向桌面的开箱即用性。该发行的特色在于可从自启动运行光盘安装的多个桌面样式。openSUSE 的缺省安装中，有一些开源软件因受阻于专利而缺席，但它们被包含在了 GeckoLinux 中。 特点： Eight (8) editions: Cinnamon, XFCE,...
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新 0-Day 漏洞或将给 Linux 桌面发行版带来浩劫
linux 的各个发行版都一直强调安全及其相关元素，比如防火墙、渗透测试、沙盒、无痕上网和隐私等等，但事实上可能并没有想象中的那么安全。安全研究员 Chris Evans 公开了其发现的 针对 Linux 桌面发行版的 0day 漏洞 ，利用特制的音频文件入侵 Linux 桌面系统，允许攻击者在受害者的计算机上运行他想要的任何代码，带来潜在的破坏性后果。 Evans 称该漏洞能工作在许多流行的...
View ArticleHow-to Passthrough Shift Keys Through Byobu
I recently discovered Byobu (which is basically jazzed-up Tmux) and found that it doesn’t pass the Shift key modifiers to my text editor. The available Tmux/Emacs solutions in Google didn’t really...
View ArticleLinux Kernel 3.12.69 LTS Has Many Networking Improvements, Updated Drivers
Today, December 18, 2016, linux kernel maintainer Jiri Slaby announced the release of the sixth-ninth maintenance update of the long-term supported Linux 3.12 kernel series, which will be maintained...
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Serious Ubuntu Linux desktop bugs found and fixed
If you, like me, use Ubuntu desktop, or one of its relatives such as linux Mint , you have a bug to patch. If you're using unpatched Ubuntu Linux, this usually innocent error message may be hiding an...
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