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prune-kernels function …
If you are like me, you will have noticed on Ubuntu (and sometimes Debian) that stale old kernels remain on the disk even when they aren’t needed anymore. I wrote a little Bash function to get rid of those kernels. … Continue reading
Posted in Administration, Bash, EN, Linux, Programming, Unix and unixoid
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by the way …
Convenient little snippet to get my external IP: echo $(wget -q -O – ip.assarbad.net/text)
Posted in Administration, Bash, EN, Linux, Unix and unixoid
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Design and misdesign
So I did it. Ordered an iPad2 (despite the knowledge that the 3rd generation will hit the market soon). And what shall I say? Crap so far. Trying to get this thing to work with the WLAN router at my … Continue reading
Re: Oracle bought ksplice … and apparently the source was pulled
I contacted one of the good people from ksplice (I’ve got an active subscription) and got pointed to oss.oracle.com/ksplice/software/ Unfortunately the access to a distributed version control is gone for good, it seems.
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FLOSS not sustainable for companies?
A few weeks ago I reported about ksplice whose Git repository had disappeared. Now the same happened for Likewise Open which was bought by BeyondTrust. After renaming the repository and moving its location from git://git.likewiseopen.org/likewise-open.git to git://git.likewiseopen.org/bt-identity-open.git it now also … Continue reading
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Greylisting works amazingly well for me …
Yesterday I wrote a short comment about the Spamhouse case. Spamhouse is indeed very important as an antispam blacklist. However, for my server I can only state that since I moved to it (previously my domains were hosted together with … Continue reading
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