Zen of Linux

I recently had the idea of trying to use a NFS (Network File System) share over the network and did a bit of research about it. Here are my results:
As became obvious, the idea is not that new, with threads dating back to the 80s (here and here). The most important concern seems to be […]

Using mercurial (hg) recently, I came across an interesting problem. I had a number of files, properly dated back to their modification time by the filesystem (file_v1.ext was from 2008-June, file_v2.ext was from 2008-Aug etc…). In order to get versioning on these files finally right, I thought about adding them to a mercurial repository, thus […]

Using redundant drives, keeping backups etc. might help to keep your data save. Anyway, being a bit more ahead of the curve is better than just waiting for harddrive failure. Now, how can we improve the overall management of our drives and how can we estimate when it’s getting likely that a drive fails. What […]

After 3 years of solid service, it was time to update a few machines running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake. A complete system wide upgrade is called a DistUpgrade - in contrary to updating/upgrading individual packages installed on your system, usually done with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.
Be sure to read some more manuals on […]