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FOSDEM 2011 – Fedora
Hi! Fosdem is around the corner, and I wanted to keep you up to date with some things. For the Fedora people, FOSDEM starts on Friday. On Friday, From 1pm till 6pm everyone is welcome in ‘A La Mort...
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fosdem 2011: the Fedora experience.
Day 0 The FAD It’s starts to become a tradition, the FOSDEM FAD [1] on Friday at ‘A la mort subite’, the day before FOSDEM starts. I think we were with some 20 people, which was nice. During the fad...
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fedora .. what are we working for?
Some months ago the Fedora Board decided on a ‘Vision statement’, a goal towards the Fedora project should strive in the long term. The vision statement states the following: The Fedora Project creates...
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how to unmount busy devices
this is one I always forget. So I’ll write it down for myself There are 2 ways to unmount a device when it’s busy. 1. the clean way: # fuser -m /media/attached /media/attached/: 1249c ps auxw |...
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fudcon emea 2011
If you follow me on twitter, you probably already knew I was in Italy last weekend. Milan to be exact. I think this was my first FUDcon where I didn’t give a talk – hacksession myself. Luckily there...
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Fosdem 2012 is coming near, in a big month probably the biggest open source event in Europe will start again! And as always, Fedora people will visit fosdem with great quantities. So I’m putting a lot...
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setting the screen resolution
I regularly use a screen that my fedora install doesn’t recognize. I mean, it can’t find the right resolution. And that’s annoying. Luckily there is xrandr to solve such problems. But always using 4...
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How to run your scripts more than once per minute?
For a client I needed to run a specific script every 10seconds. 24/24 and 7/7. A task I would normally perform with crons. But sadly enough, a cron can only be started once per minute. So I wrote a...
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cron issues: not being able to get a real ‘from’ address
And yet another issue with cron. I want to get an e-mail when something goes wrong on our servers. Especially if it’s a scheduled script that I normally don’t check that often any-more. (as you know...
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database backup retention script
Backups are important. Not keeping all backups is equally important. Especially when you are taking backups of big databases, and you don’t have enough space to keep 500TB of data backups. Therefore I...
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