Thoughts of just about anything
Ubuntu
Installing Gnome Do without Evolution
Aug 8th
I’ve been using fluxbox for quite some time now and I really like it. It is very light and since I run it on my server I want to keep the footprint as small as possible.
Problem is I fell in love with Gnome Do and rightfully so, as it has quite a bit of functionality. So I installed it just fine. I had some Mono dependency which is quite some files but I can live with that. Then I tired installing the gnome-do-plugins package and to my surprise there is quite a bit of stuff. More >
Moving from backup2l to rsnapshot for a better backup
Jun 21st
For a while now I’ve been using backup2l for my automated backups, but there where a few things I didn’t like about it. First the fact that all the backups where compressed, which is fine when you are trying to save space but trying to restore something can be a pain. in backup2l’s defense it does have a locate/restore option to quickly search and restore files, but I find that it takes time to search and if your file is a common name you’ll get multiple hits unless you narrow down your search. Another thing that bugged me was that I really never did get the configuration of levels and max per levels. I did play around with it and got something that worked for me but didn’t really understand it. So I started looking for an alternative. More >