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A clockwork tortoise, a magic tree, and The Beano
I’m not usually one for sentimentality. Most of the things from my childhood have been thrown away, lost, or have otherwise disappeared along the way. Saying that, while digging through boxes I came across some old books. These are books that are old enough, or memorable enough, to have survived the great Kindle purge of the…
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Using pv to view the progress of dd
If you use dd for any kind of copying you’ll know how it’s not exactly forthcoming with information and it’s hard to tell if it’s doing anything. Some versions of dd have a status=progress parameter that will output progress information. Sadly this doesn’t exist on the native MacOS version. An alternative way of showing progress information…
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Yarn
There’s another new toy from Facebook, this time called Yarn. Here’s how it went for me: Installed yarn with brew install yarn Typed yarn in my project directory Waited a while Committed changes to git All very easy. I’ve not yet experienced any of the benefits of yarn, but that’s probably just a question of…
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virtio_net virtio0 ens3: renamed from eth0
So while fumbling about on my VPS I somehow managed to disable all networking. Using the VPS console I noticed this in /var/log/syslog: virtio_net virtio0 ens3: renamed from eth0 That doesn’t sound good. Sure enough, trying: ifup eth0 Returned: Failed to bring up eth0 Certainly explains the lack of network. After some digging about on…
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A Blog’s Weight
As a blog gets older it seems to become harder to publish anything new. This may be a perception issue. In all likelihood it may just be my issue. As you collect followers and likes you are more aware of your audience. You find yourself filtering ideas to appeal to this audience. What was once an…
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