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Nov/10Computer Has Died
Unfortunately my computer has died on me so my blog posts may become less frequent till it is fixed / sorted.
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Nov/10Ubuntu LVM2 – Smart Storage
Overview There are plenty of exceptions where hardware and software abstractions are used to create modular and flexible designs in a modern OS. Examples can be seen from Microsoft’s .Net Framework to Virtualization. Logical Volume Management or LVM is no … Continue reading
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Nov/10Compact Folders In Thunderbird To Save Disk Space
Overview I have been using Dropbox to sync my mail across multiple computers (I’m old school using POP protocol) which has been working great. Recently I received an email from Dropbox saying I was running out of space on my … Continue reading
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Oct/10Onkyo TX-SR508 Mini Review
Overview I wanted a separated surround sound set up because it modularises the “home cinema system” rather than going with a Blu Ray / DVD cinema system where the speakers are tied to the player which has a built in … Continue reading
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Oct/10Cloning HDD In VirtualBox
A common use of Virtual Machines is to test and run stuff till they are trashed. The magic is that each VM can be brought back up in no time with combination of save points (A.K.A Snapshots in VirtualBox) or … Continue reading
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Oct/10Bash Sleep vs. Wait
Both commands sound like they do the same thing but they are used in very different ways Sleep Stops script execution for a specified amount of time in seconds e.g sleep 30 will stop the script for 30 seconds before … Continue reading
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Oct/10Asterisk / FreePBX full Log file
Asterisk logs everything to a file in /var/log/asterisk/full so I thought I’d truncate it… It was a big mistake. After doing so I had lost all the call logging information which can be found in the admin panel. Seems like … Continue reading
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Sep/10Removing Files Starting With —
I encountered an interesting problem today. I created a file called –verbose (obviously I passed the argument incorrectly) but trying to remove it more of an issue. Typing rm -f –verbose makes the command rm think it’s a parameter rather … Continue reading