nobody need be reminded of the significance of backups. usually never needed, but when they are, you're in a do or die situation!
my backup strategy is to backup every new device, soon as i get my hands on it. and then, before every significant change. sometimes, i might just take two backups and compare them.
nook simple touch
this device has been makes waves among the developer community, since barnes & noble reduced the list price to £29. since i'm not an early adopter, i waited a while, till the first lot did some testing for me and produced relatively positive feedback.
most viewed
-
to play more seriously with yet another distro, i needed to install it. so i had some fun resizing/moving partitions around to clear some fr...
-
I have just discovered zram [2] :) woohoo... and what a thing that is! I was so sold on tmpfs , that I used it for everything I possibly ...
-
you won't see many docs about minimal netinstall slackware. indeed, you will see many experts saying there is no such thing. and your on...
-
debian kernels contain everything needed by everyone. customising your kernel is easy and highly recommended. i recommend using the same ker...
-
I decided to have another go at runit , this time on my gentoo . I had been thinking about this, since I noticed this on
-
this idea has been knocking around in my head for a while. i want to document it, while it is still there and to flush it out later.. i us...
-
vision: portable internet router, to carry on my travels, or use at home. openwrt on a portable (thin-client/netbook) device. internet sour...
-
ref: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/portage Gentoo is Portage. Portage is Gentoo. Getting portage settings right is vitally important. It...
-
The leanest cleanest way to connect to wpa/2 networks is wpa_supplicant . Optional wpa_gui provides a GUI and System Tray icon, if need be...
-
I don't prefer systemd , but sometimes you can't avoid demandware . Below is my how to wifi with systemd . This method now works wi...