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Alpine is wonderful for old hardware.

"Retrofitting performance into existing applications is very difficult technically, and almost impossible to prioritize organizationally." While this may not be the only explanatio…

Yeah, Vundle's (presumably temporary) removal caught me off guard today on a fresh install. This, in turn, has caused me to take a hard look at the Vim plugins I was using. Turns o…

Exactly, thank you. :-)

Please note that these are slides for a talk. Regular web page in the works!

Please note that these are slides for a talk. Regular web page in the works!

Please note that these are slides for a talk. Regular web page in the works!

I visited the article only to make sure it mentioned the novel "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop." by Robert Coover. I was thinking about that book ju…

There might be something to that!

I'm a huge fan of running web servers in the house - but they don't have to be connected to the Internet to be useful and fun! An Apache instance on my always-on box in the basemen…

School shooting drills.

This is correct.

This is an excellent and entertaining intro to the world of TTYs and I think the first question is a particularly clever way to introduce it: > The answer is Ctrl+W. Because Ctrl+W…

To expand on this, people needlessly cargo-cult arcane dd commands, but on many (most?) systems, "cp foo.iso /dev/sdb" will do the same thing, but with possibly even better perform…

Ha ha, this falls firmly into the "I wish I needed to reference this more" category for me as well.

This may not work since I don't know anything about you, but: imagine you discovered this was your own mother (or grandmother or...) in the video.