Links 16/1/2014: Instructionals
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-01-16 13:09:40 UTC
- Modified: 2014-01-16 13:14:44 UTC
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I recently wrote about the Linux swap device and what it’s used for. This tutorial covers the basics of actually managing the swap devices and/or files on your system. Topics covered include how to enable and disable swap, how to create (and remove) additional swap space, and how to measure swap usage.
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This article proposes a new way to construct Linux€® and Windows€® images for private clouds built with the OpenStack cloud operating system.
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I use ssh everyday and it’s my main tool to connect and manage servers, so I’m always interested in articles about ssh.
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In part 5 of this Gtkmm tutorial I will be showing you how to use the treeview control and markup in a label. In this simple application there is a text entry used for entering text into a treeview. The label next to the text entry will turn red if there is no text entered in the text entry when the button is pressed.
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The battery recently died in my old Asus Netbook which gave me some fire to finally get together a functional filesystem for the Samsung Chromebook I've had for a little over a year. I published a rough file system with install instructions here last December. Since then a few things have changed in the structure of ChromeOS and the install script/file systems needed some updates.
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I had the pleasure of meeting Russell Pavlicek, who shares Xen community management responsibilities with Lars Kurth, at SUSECon last November and he, along with Dario Faggioli of the Xen community, poked me about writing a blog post describing the state of Xen support in libvirt. I found this to be an excellent idea and good reason to get off my butt and write! Far too much time passes between my musings.
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- basically a Windows/Microsoft (US) shop
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- Repeat abusers (of the legal system) will misuse it as long as regulators do nothing
- Where We Stand With the Winter Series
- We'll need to protect names and sources
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- Links for the day
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- SUEPO Munich is also reminding people of the threat of PIPs
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- Has there been some kind of mass migration there or is this just noise in the data?
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- Will Finns Put Out the Online Cigarettes?
- More people recognise that the child porn site formerly known as "Twitter" and Cheeto/Pooh-tin controlled TikTok are no longer trustworthy
- As the US Economy Sags Microsoft Layoffs Carry on (Now in Larger Waves Like 15,000 Per Season or 30,000+ Per Year)
- They try to avoid "negative" topics
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- now that Australians can no longer keep Vista 10
- Microsoft Windows Falling
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- Europe needs to rid itself or wean itself off GAFAM
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- The SRA, by inaction, is complicit in this
- From Weber Shandwick (Microsoft PR) to Brett Wilson LLP (Hired Gun of the Serial Strangler of Microsoft)
- they basically tried to charge me a lot of money for a PR project of someone who strangled women
- The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is Not a Regulator, It's Part of the Litigation "Industry" in the UK (They Overlap Each Other)
- Does nothing except talk about SLAPPs
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- Bing has had many layoffs in recent years
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- For real security, use Geminispace capsules, not Web sites
- Slop at Microsoft is a Miserable Failure, Now Microsoft Takes the "Vista Route" (Paying People to Say Good Things About It)
- This is brainwash, it's meant to delay the implosion of the bubble
- Rumours About February 2026 Microsoft Layoffs: Silent Layoffs or 30,000 Culled Tomorrow
- Sooner or later (and soon) Microsoft will need to say something and file some WARN notifications
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- Guam's "uptick" in GNU/Linux usage started weeks after "end of 10"
- Fighting Slop With the Public Domain (and Why Slopfarms Perish Faster Than New Ones Appear)
- We can combat the nonsense by producing more human-made works until the slop bubble implodes
- After Employee Reviews at IBM Staff Expects Another Large Wave of PIPs and "RAs" (Layoffs)
- From what we can see in the "public Web"
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 09, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, February 09, 2026
- Is Europe Abandoning Digital Opium?
- GAFAM-controlled social control media
- Microslop is Slop, Slop is Considered "Quality"
- no wonder Microsoft's stuff breaks down so often
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- Who at thelayoff.com deems spam made by LLMs (slop) to be on-topic and unworthy of zapping, whereas actually on-topic and authentic threads get routinely deleted?
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- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- Conforming to society's perceived expectations isn't how effective activism can ever be done or was ever done in the recent past
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- Links for the day
- EPO Outrage and Maintaining the Pressure
- A vending machine does not fall over after a first push
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, February 08, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, February 08, 2026
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- Misnomers need to be avoided or called out
- Expensive errors: Forbes Gold price, $44 billion Bitcoin given away by Bithumb, South Korea
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
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- Links for the day
- The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Lobbies for Microsoft in the EU, Promoting Proprietary Lock-in
- OSI pushing and selling Microsoft and GitHub. OSI is Microsoft front group.
- Getting the European Court of Justice to Annul the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Kangaroo Court (UPC)
- We're still working on it
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- Links 08/02/2026: Microsoft GitHub as Burden on Developers and "The Chomsky Epstein Files"
- Links for the day
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- Links for the day
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- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Bitcoin warning followed immediately by network outage
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Money Funneled to Protection of Software Freedom, But Nothing Really Lost
- Crossposted from personal site
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- Oligarchy already entertains the option of running away to (or colonising) some other planet without pitchforks and "unwashed masses"
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- According to analytics.usa.gov
- We're Still Fast
- The site is even faster than the BBC's despite being on shoestring budget with only a small technical team
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- We see more and more GNU/Linux- or BSD-focused bloggers turning to Gemini
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- today is a rare anniversary for us
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- But not financially (sellouts)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
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- IRC logs for Saturday, February 07, 2026
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- Free speech is often opposed by those who also oppose Free software
- IRC is a Lot Better Than Social Control Media (They're Not the Same at All)
- A good social analogy for IRC is, there are many buildings with a party in each building
- Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' is 'Dead Meat'
- Or 0xDEADBEEF as some geeks might call it
- When Identifying "Low Performers" and "PIPs" Aren't About Improving Performance But Reinforcing a Clique in Your Company/Organisation
- It's very troubling to see once-respectable brands like IBM and institutions like the EPO resorting to this
- Slop and Flop (IBM), Slopfarms and Hybrids (Linuxiac)
- Did Bobby Borisov assume he would never get caught?
- Crowdfunding vs Bitcoins: donations are better investment than digital tulip mania
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
