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List Open Files for Process

A handy trick to find out where the executable for a running process resides on disk. Linux / UNIX: List Open Files for Process. Filed under: Computing, How To Tagged: lsof, pfiles, ps

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Find big files

When you get a disk full error on a server, here’s are two good techniques to find the offending files. How Do I Find The Largest Top 10 Files and Directories On a Linux / UNIX / BSD? Linux Find Large...

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Ruby Worst Practices

Some things not to do in Ruby: Ruby Worst Practices: Appendix C – Ruby Best Practices – O’Reilly Media. Filed under: How To, Programming Tagged: ruby

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Curing a Mate Gourd

Some links regarding the proper way to cure a Mate gourd: YerbaGuru.com: For the Yerba Mate Enthusiast The Yerba Mate Gourd How to cure a Yerba Mate Gourd – Tips to Prevent Mold Filed under: Food, How To

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Git tricks, tips and workflows

Clear and comprehensive page by Markus Prinz about how to setup and use git. A few of my Git tricks, tips and workflows. Filed under: How To, Programming, Tips and Tricks Tagged: Git, Howto

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Terminal Size

To get the width and height of a terminal window use the tput command. Width: $ tput cols Height: $ tput lines Filed under: How To, Tips and Tricks Tagged: cli, terminal, Unix

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Focus, Focus

Here is some info about how autofocus works in modern cameras and how to use that info to achieve the best results. Filed under: How To, Photography

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Trash Can Faraday Cage?

I wonder if this would actually work. Would be interesting to test this at White Sands Missle Range and (dis)prove it. Filed under: How To Tagged: emp, survivalism

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ReadyNAS Duo and NV+, v1 or v2

Like most computer companies, Netgear has decided to make finding the version number of their ReadyNAS devices a fun guessing game rather than just printing it on the case. If you need to upgrade the...

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Lion’s Whole-Disk Encryption

Lion’s Whole-Disk Encryption talks about how to make other disks (besides startup) encrypted in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Filed under: How To, Security, Tips and Tricks Tagged: full disk encryption, Mac OS X...

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