A while ago, I started playing around with Arch Linux on a spare computer. After following the (excellent) Beginners' guide I ended up with a rather nice LVM on LUKS setup. This spare computer has one physical (SSD) disk (/dev/sda), which is divided in /dev/sda1 (which is /boot ...
For my home internet connection, I am a customer of Online.nl for their very affordable Supersnel Internet 30 Mb/s package. With this subscription, you will also receive their default modem, the Huawei HG655d home gateway which gets all it's settings pushed via the provider. However, after not ...
more ...If you have been following me on Twitter recently, you might have noticed that I was pretty excited when Debian 8.0 Jessie got released two weeks ago. Not only have I been a fan of Debian and it's derivatives (Ubuntu, Linux Mint) for a long time, but also ...
more ...Yesterday, I needed to solve a pretty interesting problem. I had to move a few TB's of data from server A to server B in different countries and datacenters. Server A had a pretty decent connection, Server B had an awesome fast connection, but the connection between each other ...
more ...Lately I've been busy working with databases for my spare time projects. I imported a huge dump of data into the db via CSV import, but forgot to add an Unique Id Column (Primary Key). Not willing to do the whole import job again, I searched for a solution ...
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