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Home in subversion

I’ve mentioned previously that I’ve started putting my /home in subversion. I thought I’d go into how I handle things, as it takes a little adjustment in your thinking to get maximum benefit from this. I used this guide to get me started, and stuck pretty close to it.

What I do is seperate . . . → Read More: Home in subversion

Suspend works

I got my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop to successfully suspend and resume, yay! The key is not to use the neofb framebuffer, but the vesafb one instead. Also the usb modules uhci_hcd and usbcore need to be unloaded before suspending. If you don’t then suspend works but instead of a proper resume you get . . . → Read More: Suspend works

Screen hardstatus

GingerDog saw my screen and was curious about the status line I have. The entire screenrc I use.

(the thingy at the bottom of the image) It’s achieved using the following magic incantation in my .screenrc

hardstatus on hardstatus lastline "%c:%s – %-Lw%{=BW}%50>%n%f*t%{-}%+Lw%<"  

Oh, and each window gets automatically named after . . . → Read More: Screen hardstatus

Backup script v2

I’ve rewritten my backup script in python (it was in bash) in order to make the old backup handling date-based rather than a simple iteration. So it now renames dirs to daily.1, daily2, weekly1, monthly1 for old backups that are one day, two days, one week, one month old etc.

Not being able to . . . → Read More: Backup script v2

Browsing network shares

I wanted a way to browse network shares without having to mount them first or resorting to clunky guis like nautilus. So I worked out how to do it using autofs. The engine behind this being the two scripts for NFS and Samba. Combined with a standard autofs setup that references them I can . . . → Read More: Browsing network shares