LVM Cache su SSD

ha pubblicato la guida LVM Cache su SSD.

La mia macchina principale è configurata esattamente come la sua all’inizio, anche se io ne sono abbastanza soddisfatto. In fin dei conti è un towerone pensato per poter essere aggiornato a pezzi man mano.

Però l’idea di mettere un SSD come cache mi intriga.

Per dirla tutta però la mia /home non è mica dentro LVM…

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People really should avert their gaze from the modern survival thinking for just a bit and also look at how folks 150 years ago did it

I labelled it fun. I hope it will remain so

5 lines I put in a blank .vimrc | Sword and Signals

TL;DR To make a default Vim installation more useful, type the following 5 lines into its .vimrc file:

set hlsearch " highlight all search results

set ignorecase " do case insensitive search
set incsearch " show incremental search results as you type

set number " display line number

set noswapfile " disable swap file

Source: 5 lines I put in a blank .vimrc | Sword and Signals

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Modernize Your Scripts By Adding GUI

Shalitha Suranga wrote How to Modernize Your Bash Scripts By Adding GUI :

Tired of displaying raw text on Console? Try Zenity & notify-send

I do use zenity and notify-send myself but zenity fails miserably when it cannot access a graphical interface. It would be better if it fallback to the good, old NCurses library.

You can always use the dialog command, but it hasn’t the same options