This time I tried to switch from trusty to xenial in a naïve way, forcefully removing faaar too many packages, then iussing an apt dist-upgrade
I was trying to install fairly recent releases of mongodb and nodejs1
It didn’t handled it very well…. Now I got to reflash it, for the third time.
I should have bought a Raspberry or a Cubox….
By providing copy of leak, Intercept likely accelerated ID of contractor.
How a few yellow dots burned the Intercept’s NSA leaker | Ars Technica
It’s useful to remember now and then that color printers insert in every page they print an almost invisible watermark made of tiny yellow dots that allow to discover who and when printed that sheet.
Scary, isn’t it?
I wonder if it also apply when you print black’n’white. Today I’ll try with the Ricoh Aficio at work
From Linux mailx command help and examples
mailx is an intelligent mail processing system, which has a command syntax reminiscent of ed with lines replaced by messages. It is based on Berkeley Mail 8.1, is intended to provide the functionality of the mail command, and offers extensions for MIME, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and S/MIME. mailx provides enhanced features for interactive use, such as caching and disconnected operation for IMAP, message threading, scoring, and filtering. It is also usable as a mail batch language, both for sending and receiving mail.
I bet a beer that most of you gravely underestimate the power of the good, old mail command on a GNU/Linux OS, at least.
I did.
From an IT professional, working in a fashion firm:
The administration/accounting tells us that the IT cost shall be between 0,6-0,8% of revenues.
I shall keep this in mind.
paolo@rigel:~$ sudo badblocks -n -s /dev/sdg
[sudo] password di paolo:
Ricerca dei blocchi non validi (test in moalità lettura-scrittura non distruttiva)
Controllo con un modello casuale: 24.33% done, 8:14:38 elapsed. (0/0/0 errors)s)
It’s a long long way to check a 500Gb disk over Usb2 for bad sectors.
I used to carry this disk around. Last summer I plugged it into a TV to play some movie I had on it and it began making a horrible “tlack!”. Ok, I told my family, it’s going to break, let’s make something else.
Now I do really want to check it out, since I already formatted it at low-level and it didn’t show any error.
In the last two months I’ve been almost forced to use this humble EeePc of mine at work:
a humble netbook from 2010. It was cheap even then (199€ with Ubuntu!) that I have bought because of its portability, knowing it was a slowish machine. For my work flow it’s unbearably slow so I use the plain old remote X sessions, such as paolo@eeepc:~$ ssh -Xf laboratorio oocalc. On a plain LAN it’s almost perfect, while a VNC session is much slower.
I tried Xrdp but on Centos it has some glitches. So why keep trying to use when good old X-Windows is up to the task?
Well, I do acknowledge that in case of real remote session a plain X-session is the slowest thing on planet Earth while RDP seems to provide a better experience than VNC. Too bad I’ve been unable to make it work without passing trough a local VNC session which seems to me a workaround.
It… can… be…. done.
Freshwater sushi, of course.
http://m.slashdot.org/story/324077
So it seems I’m right to stick to vim into console…
Ditto for emacs users of course….
