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Agedu – A Unix utility for tracking down wasted disk space

Posted 05-09-2013 at 08:12 AM by sridhar11

agedu scans a directory tree and produces reports about how much disk space is used in each directory and subdirectory, and also how that usage of disk space corresponds to files with last-access times a long time ago.
In other words, agedu is a tool you might use to help you free up disk space. It lets you see which directories are taking up the most space, as du does; but unlike du, it also distinguishes between large collections of data which are still in use and ones which have not been...

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How to improve Ubuntu Laptop Power Management

Posted 05-07-2013 at 05:47 AM by sridhar11

With each release cycle the Linux kernel and the distributions implement new improvements in terms of laptop power management. Therefore even plain standard installations can show quite good results.Additional possibilities to save battery power are easily found on the web with the search engine of your choice. But selecting the right solutions for your particular hardware and Linux flavor from the myriad of wikis, blogs and forums is much more difficult and often requires advanced Linux knowledge...

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Getting better.

Posted 05-03-2013 at 11:47 PM by peonuser

www.instructables.com/member/computothought has reached over a half million views finally.

Put Arch on the sideline for now.

Hard part of learning to cook is not the cooking itself, but the cleanup and the storage management especially in the fridge and freezer.

Latest linux pro mag is supposed to have a collect of all the old articles. Whew as we missed a few.

Started building a replacement Mythtv server.

Have another server...

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Ka-blooey said the cluster.

Posted 05-02-2013 at 05:11 PM by rocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 06-16-2013 at 08:49 PM by rocket357

Spent a bit building out an Oracle RHCS cluster for a customer. So Oracle Engineers install Oracle 11g, I configure the RHCS cluster, and I notify the Account Manager that all that's left are a few tests.

Simple tests. Like, "clusvcadm -R oracle-svc". Ok, passed that. "clusvcadm -r oracle-svc -m db2". Passed that one, too. Now to the fun tests...

sync && sleep 10 && sync && ifdown bond0

Watching rgmanager logs...looks...

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A new version of ExTiX is ready!

Posted 04-30-2013 at 08:45 AM by exton (Exton's Blog)

Tags cairo-dock 3.2.1, extix 13, exton, gnome 3.6.3, ubuntu 13.04

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Version 13 (130428) of ExTiX 64bit Linux Live DVD is based on Ubuntu 13.04, released on April 25, 2013. The original system includes the Desktop Environment Unity (Ubuntu). In ExTiX 13 I have removed Unity and installed Gnome 3.6.3 with Cairo-Dock 3.2.1 instead. Used kernel: 3.8.0-19-exton. The system language is English.

See a screenshot of the Desktop…

READ MORE in English or Swedish…

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