Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight.
Just a dumb trick I whipped up and was inordinately proud of. Sure I could go along to timeanddate dot com but I spend a lot of my time in my terminal and this is immediate. Small effort big payback. OK, so the code is just this, added to .bashrc The first block is the … Read more
Had a server which needed a bit more swap, but the current swap was at 100%, and it was marginal whether there was enough RAM to allow me to delete the current 2G swap and replace it with 4G. So I came up with the "swapfile shuffle". All good. Happy server.
I was getting a bit cramped for space on the root partition of an older desktop, which has been running for 4 years or so, and discovered that although I'd been running the 6.x kernel for several years, there was a lot of baggage from 5.x kernels lying around. Here's a reminder to myself how … Read more
A docker container wasn't sending mail. I'd debugged the connection from the host machine and that was working, but once inside the container, there were no tools available. No mail, no mutt, no traceroute, no ping, no mtr, no netcat … so how to find out if the container could send to the mail server … Read more
I found a need for this once upon a time. It will descend through a Linux directory, get the permissions, ownership details for all the subdirs and then write a script for you to recreate it somewhere else. You use it like this. Script listing