Could someone explain to me why the simple and obvious patch in kernel bugzilla 12557 to resolve an invalid filehandle being found by stat() when a file has been recently updated on an NFS server, causes more problems than it solves and thus will not be ever applied to a mainline kernel? "CLOSED DOCUMENTED" seems to be documented by saying "NFS is ( Read more... )

I'm too cheap to afford a power metre, but finally got some useful power estimates by tackling some 15% segments in today's ride (the steeper the hill, the less air resistance and rolling friction will matter. The extreme being a vertical slope, where the power output is going entirely into elevation gain (and rope friction)). If I am not ( Read more... )

Going to have to reset the time on a lot of servers tomorrow! automount here on my machines at home were all spinning at 30% with this strace ( Read more... )

I love UNIX. It suits really lazy people like me.

I had a need to capture output from one file (captured into "$df", and from each line , take the corresponding line from another file (captured into "$blocksizes"). Join should be able to do this right? Other than the fact that you can't tell it to use the line number as its joining field ( ( Read more... )

I just got 200MB/s read/write rate from my swap device on my laptop. Fast laptop eh? OK, so I'm cheating by using the compcache/zram module from the staging tree ( Read more... )

I was shipped Hepco-Becker sidecarriers for the GS500 (to fit the same panniers I bought for my R1200GS), and the instructions came only in German. OCR does a lot better than it did back when I first tried it in 1993. It got most of the German text including accents correctly, and almost seemed to realise that since it was reading international ( Read more... )

Erik de Castro Lopo mentions Geany as a replacement to NeditI personally don't use geany or nedit[1], but a coworker has said "geany is almost OK", except it doesn't have keyboard macros, and there's a weird bug in that it thinks a line with more than one "#" (and following comment lines) is not a comment (presumably in his language of choice - tcl ( Read more... )

repeat after me, "there's so many to choose from ( Read more... )

I hope Debian squeeze is not going to be released without the trivial fix for bug #564464 being applied, just because of any impending freeze. The regression itself wasn't introduced until near when the freeze was mooted, and still hasn't been fixed 6 months later ( Read more... )

It turns out that the earth will be quite uninhabitable in 300 years time. But before anyone gets any brilliant ideas that perhaps we can get out of this bind with a bit of engineering such as spraying sea water into the clouds, let me just say that part of my day job is tightening up a servo control loop for a 250 tonne telescope and 550 tonne ( Read more... )