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Paolo Redaelli

 

Inforce IFC 6410

Inforce IFC 6410

Oh, I bricked it again

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….


  1. you know, that little zenbot 

mailx is understimated

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…

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…

Let’s spice up

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…

Freshwater sushi

Il pesce d’acqua dolce conquista le tavole degli chef. Persico, tinca, anguilla &co. Vol. 1 – Gambero Ross It… can… be…. done. Freshwater sushi, of course.