I tell people who are curious about Linux that you really don’t need to open a terminal to run a Desktop. The terminal is a scary thing for noobs. They…
Parsing a Git Patch with Bash
I probably could have done this in perl and it would have been much faster…but I could say that about a lot of things. My problem is that Perl is…
Manage your Linux Box with htop
There is one application that I simply must have on every Linux system I install and that’s htop. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a virtual machine or installed on hardware….
Supercharge Your Command Line With Fish Shell
Linux has no lack of command-line shells. There’s ‘sh’, ‘bash’, ‘ksh’, ‘zsh’ and more. To get the most out of them, however, requires a bit of learning, time and work;…
Making Backups with Grsync
Again and again, we are reminded by computer gurus to be sure to backup anything on our computers that we don’t want to lose. Still, you’d be amazed at how…
Cleaning Linux: Jed’s Nappy /boot
My home NAS machine is an Ubuntu 14.04 machine with a ZFS volume. I need the linux-headers packages in order to compile my ZFS dkms modules. Those take more space…
Finding the Offending Directories
Gnarly Backup School Series We have washed up on the shores of find…all these files drifting around us in the surf. Remember: In the last article I asked you…
Finding Recent Files
Finding Recent Files Gnarly Backup School Series Before you suggest that it is better to use a backup program like Bacula or Amanda, I shall insist that making backups from…
Backup Plex For Ubuntu Reliably
It’s no secret that I like watching TV. From movies to TV shows, I like ’em all. I’m also a very happy cord cutter. This means I use a combination…
Boost Your Hard Drive with Bcache
A few weeks ago I converted my friend’s Chromebook from its stock ChromeOS to Ubuntu. As payment, he let me keep the Kingston 16GB M.2 SSD which we replaced with…