There is a question/thread over at slashdot titled What did you first do with Linux? Rather than copy my reply here, I’ll just put a link to my reply to that subject. I did have (and I mentioned it in the post) a get off my lawn moment when writing it. A fun walk down [...]
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Truth in comics
7/30/2008 – 9:48 am
I love xkcd and its geeky geeky ways. It often captures things I’ve lived and/or seen. Today’s is one I have lived and seen lived. This reminds me of a post on usenet my friend Anne made in 1998. To quote: So I am left not bitter just tired of this whole meeting people, emotional [...]
Sunday fun
5/11/2008 – 6:11 pm
Shutdown <install new/replacement disk> fdisk mkswap umount /boot dd e2fsck && resize2fs mount -o remount,ro / dd e2fsck && resize2fs mount -o remount,rw / pvcreate vgextend pvmove (wait a long long long time for 174 GB, especially with disk read errors, to move) vgreduce shutdown remove old and busted, put new hotness in as primary [...]
