Peace in the land of USB
Under a *nix operating system, having multiple partitions on a USB drive isn’t rocket science, it just works. In my case, my USB drive has two partitions because the first partition is a bootable Arch Linux installer.
I have Windows on a desktop at home – mostly for gaming – and [...]
Arch Linux’s installation process is documented on the Arch wiki. I recommend that persons new to Arch try the excellent Beginner’s Guide instead of the Official Arch Linux Install Guide. Though both wiki entries cover similar ground, the Beginner’s Guide gives a lot more relevant information for those new to the system. The Beginner’s Guide [...]
Its amazing how much you can do by combining the small yet powerful commands Unix has available.
This little-used command, time, finally became useful today as a way to report the length of time that certain automated operations are running. In my example, I’m timing how long it takes to build the Linux kernel:
$ time rebuild-kernel26
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couple-thousand-lines-of-scrolling-text
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I finally got Ignite Realtime’s Spark to work. I don’t particularly like Spark – its a necessity though and I’m sure others have had trouble with it.
As some readers might be aware, I’m using 64-bit Arch Linux. Spark runs on top of a JRE, independent of the base platform. Therefore, this shouldn’t be an issue. [...]
Some of you may already know that I built a home server not too long ago. I documented some of the very important parts of how it was built though I was planning on releasing all the documentation all at once. I was using Arch Linux and I hadn’t nearly finished everything, especially the documentation. [...]
