The good people at Silicon Chip are clearing out their old library, and I have just arranged to buy 43 of their old electronics books for $2 each. Bargain! The gory details are here.
The Linux man-pages project
Today I discovered: The Linux man-pages project.
Forcing a partition table reload
I’m reading How Linux Works, 3rd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know and I learned that you can force the kernel to reload a partition table with a command like this:
# blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdX
Toilet light cover part 2
Just an update on my toilet light cover. My new screws arrived so I replaced the big (18mm) ones with some more appropriate smaller (10mm) ones. It’s now ready to go back in the roof, will do that soon.
Why is firefox trying to access fstab and how can I stop it?
My first question on Ask Ubuntu: Why is firefox trying to access fstab and how can I stop it?
hostinfo.sh
I created a new script hostinfo.sh, it works a little like this:
------------------- Mon Mar 27 00:13:55 [bash:5.1.16 jobs:0 error:0 time:0] jj5@charm:/home/jj5 $ hostinfo.sh id.............: 218-jj-wrk-8-charm-prod-home fqdn...........: charm.jj5.net host...........: charm host-prod......: charm host-test......: charm-test domain.........: jj5.net sysid..........: 218 system.........: jj-wrk-8 realm..........: jj class..........: wrk typenum........: 8 deployment.....: prod provider.......: home environment....: home netenv.........: prod net............: GREEN instance-type..: None -------------------
moreutils: ts
I recently discovered the `ts` command from the moreutils package. You can use it to prepend a timestamp to each line.
Dumb to managed switch conversion
This is cool: Dumb to managed switch conversion. The author takes a cheap switch and upgrades it to support VLANs.
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
I’m reading Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook and it referred me to this article: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids. It’s an interesting read.
The book has a website, over here: https://longformmath.com/
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
This is good: The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.
It referenced this, which is also good: Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle by R.P. Feynman.