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I’ve had some of my OpenSuse servers for a loooong time, through a lot of upgrades. When they were originally built, a 150 MB /boot partition was plenty large… but it sure isn’t anymore. In fact, if you analyze it…
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I want to start this post by pointing out that the title is like something you’d find in a classic German war movie. Except this time, it’s about servers. Anyway, I got this email from a reader: Hi Linux Guy,…
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It looks like things are finally starting to go my way. Running bash on Windows 10… As Yakov Smirnoff says, “What a country!” http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DevelopersCanRunBashShellAndUsermodeUbuntuLinuxBinariesOnWindows10.aspx 😉
Following along in my line of “Readers Digest” versions of the official Opensuse upgrades procedures (here are a couple of my past ones: 11.1, 11.2, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2), I decided I’d post one for upgrading in-place from SLES 11 SP2 to…
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First things first. I want to thank all the folks that have poured a ton into making iFolder work for me. To all the unknown and un-named, thank you. Now, of course there are a few of you for which…
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There’s just nothing like iFolder. And soon (if not already), there may not even be iFolder. Make sure to stop by the noFolder.com site, read Dan’s plea, and vote in his “What is iFolder worth to you?” poll. You see,…
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For about as long as I’ve been able to spell “bash”, I’ve seen the debates on the ‘Net about the proper way to use the shell to loop through a text file line-by-line (rather than item-by-item). Of the small handful…
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I’m one of those people that still disables IPv6 on all my Linux boxes. And, I guess I’m being punished for it, since if you disable IPv6 on Opensuse, then X11Forwarding will no longer function in its default form. The…
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It looks like some people are working very hard out there to try and preserve iFolder for future versions of Opensuse. To those people (the NoFolder crew, Ravi Kumar, etc.), I’m indebted; I simply would be at a loss without…
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Recently, I needed to create a one-address-per-line email address list, using only an existing Exchange group mailbox as input. First we start in Windows… I opened Outlook and prepared to create a new email and typed in the email group. …
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