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Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

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Clone Raspberry Pi SD to Larger Card

October 28, 2021 – 11:56 am
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This is more of a note to myself: every time I need to clone the RPi card, I end up googling things for an hour. The process is two-fold: clone the SD and resize the …

Backup Options for Raspberry Pi

October 3, 2020 – 8:16 am
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Just about every Raspberry Pi I used suffered the same fate: the micro SD card died. It is generally accepted that the expected lifespan of an SD card is around ten years of normal use.

Affordable Linux Server

October 2, 2020 – 8:14 am
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A friend asked me what server I would recommend to run Linux. Yes, a very broad query. After a few followup questions we’ve determined the server will be used to run VMs, or Apache, or …

Raspberry Pi 2 OpenELEC Player

June 10, 2015 – 4:37 pm
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Just some quick documentation, mostly for myself, but feel free to try. This is a Raspberry Pi 2 with OpenELEC. The design is intended for overclocking, good wireless performance, and convenience of dual remotes. This …

Gadget Review: D-Link DNS-321 NAS

August 1, 2010 – 10:51 am

The D-Link DNS-321 is among the least expensive dual-disk RAID NAS systems currently on the market. This small device offers an impressive array of features such as FTP, Samba, NFS, iTunes, DHCP, HTTP and UPnP …

Tracking Prices of Hard Drives

July 5, 2009 – 5:40 pm

It seems that only a year ago terabyte hard drives were a novelty item. Today they are on clearance at computer stores trying to free up the shelves for 1.5Tb drives and the 2Tb hard …