Teach your Grandmother to write scripts
It says here that people 65 and older have poorer vision, poorer dexterity and poorer memory than people 21-55 years old. Sounds right to me. My wife and I are 70, and there's no smartphone in our...
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Linux's lack of software is a myth
When I first started dabbling with linux back in the 1990s, a lot of various types of software was missing for me to be able to use it full time. Games. Video editing tools. High-quality productivity...
View Articlezlib vs zstd for MyRocks running Linkbench
I used an IO-heavy configuration to determine the impact of zstandard vs zlib compression for MyRocks . There was about 1 read from SSD per transaction and decompression is done after each page read...
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A quick startup using .NET Core on Linux
I know you may be thinking… This post is another rhetoric post by this guy, yes it is. .NET Core is another product that I like, the first one being, .NET framework itself. It was last year when .NET...
View ArticleLinux下使用tcpkill工具重置NFS连接
有些时候在 linux 系统中使用 NFS 挂载远程共享（使用默认的 TCP 方式）之后，偶尔会因为网络异常出现 NFS 连接出错的问题，这种情况下使用任何 ls 或者 df 等等常用的命令对 NFS 挂载目录进行简单的查看操作都可能卡顿几十秒乃至几分钟的时间。 此时如果在别的 Linux 客户机系统上又是可以正常访问 NFS 共享的，而 NFS...
View ArticleQuick and easy Fedora Minimal chroot
This is a quick guide on how to quickly make a Fedora Minimal chroot environment without any special tools. The only prerequisite is that you have root access on the machine you are using, and chroot...
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Raspberry Pi Plays All That Jazz
[James Bellafaire] wanted a good looking old radio with a modern sound. Granted, you could hollow the case out and replace it with an iPod. Or you could convert the thing to an Internet radio. But...
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SNES Micro Is A Pi Z Of Art
Clay is a shapeless raw material that’s waiting to be turned into awesomeness by your creativity. So is the Raspberry Pi. [Dorison Hugo] brought the two together in his artfully crafted SNES micro a...
View ArticleHeadless Videostream
I have a file server with some media on it that I want to stream to my chromecast. Unfortunately the server is an old 32bit atom server with not too much power. It is even to slow for streaming using...
View ArticleCapturing Images with Org Mode
Back in January, I came across a post by Arne Babenhauserheide on capturing images into Org . It looked interesting but required Image Magick, which doesn't play well with OS X. I thought at the time...
View Article怎样在Ubuntu14.04上签发并使用Let’s Encrypt免费证书
第一步：安装Let’s Encrypt客户端 1. 更新系统： sudo apt-get update 2. 安装git和bc软件包 sudo apt-get -y install git bc 3. 下载Let’s Encrypt软件包到根目录 sudo git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt 4. 安装Let’s...
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An Everyday Linux User Review Of Linux Lite 3.0
Introduction I am going to admit now that I had previously thought about reviewing linux Lite 3.0 when it first came out but there was a reason I didn't which I will come to later. I changed my mind...
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Summer Project 2016 update: The Couchcase Rises
Last time, I blogged about getting the most important pieces of the Couchcase together. I installed Ubuntu on 3 Intel Compute Sticks and installedCouchbase Server on them. It’s been a while since my...
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Microsoft's Azure Fabric Service on Linux demonstrates importance of hybrid...
Image: Microsoft While only a preview, Microsoft's recent announcement of linux support for Azure Fabric Service demonstrates Microsoft's desire to have Azure everywhere. From AzureStack to their...
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Is PermitRootLogin Based on the UID or the User Name?
Sometimes it is fun to dig a bit deeper into how things work just to satisfy your curiosity while learning something new, like PermitRootLogin, for example. Does it check the UID or the user name?...
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自制Linux系统
自制linux系统 1.首选准备一台Linux虚拟机并添加一块新硬盘 2.分区并创建文件系统，创建两个必要的分区根分区和boot分区 fdisk /dev/sdb 分区mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 创建boot文件系统mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/sdb2 创建根分区 3.挂载boot分区 4.在boot分区上安装grub 5.恢复内核和initramfs文件...
View ArticleLinux Kernel 4.7.4 Updates GPU Drivers, Adds OverlayFS and EXT4 Improvements
Today, September 15, 2016, renowned kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman informed the linux community about the availability of the fourth maintenance update to the Linux 4.7 kernel series. Linux kernel...
View ArticleGNOME Boxes Virtual Machine Manager Supports USB Redirection for Background VMs
Now that the Release Candidate of the soon-to-be-released GNOME 3.22 desktop environment is out, it's time to take a look at some more features that are coming to it this fall. In this article, we'll...
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