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Synchronizing home directories

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Any good tools to synchronize home directories on Linux boxes? Many have several PC/laptops and consequently many home directories. There is home directory synchronizing problem. unison is a good tool to do this: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#rshmeth http://www.watzmann.net/blog/2009/02/my-homedirs-in-unison.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/index.shtml#File%20Synchronization Useful script: $ unison -batch -ui text ./ /mnt/homebak/zma/ In text user interface, synchronizing two directories in batch mode…

Installing Dropbox on Linux

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How to install Dropbox on Linux ? Just follow Dropbox’s instruction here: https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx A quick command for 64-bit Linux: $ cd ~ && wget -O – “https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64” | tar xzf – Use the dropx CLI: http://www.dropboxwiki.com/Using_Dropbox_CLI Download dropbox.py: $ wget -O ~/bin/dropbox.py “https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py” Set the permissions: $ chmod +x ~/bin/dropbox.py Start Dropbox: $ dropbox.py start Status:…

Large-but-correctly-aligned-and-optimized code is faster than less-bytes-per-instruction/opcode-packed code

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Is large-but-correctly-aligned-and-optimized code faster than less-bytes-per-instruction/opcode-packed code? Alex Ionescu mentioned in ros-dev mailing list: I’m not sure why you would want kernel code to be “smaller” instead of “faster” though — on modern processors for cases like interrupts and such, large-but-correctly-aligned-and-optimized code is faster than less-bytes-per-instruction/opcode-packed code. ie: mov eax, [foo] add eax, 1 mov…

SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA: efficiently archive/copy large sparse files

ByEric Ma

How to efficiently archive a very large sparse file, say 1TB? The sparse file may contains a small amount of data, say 32MB. SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA The SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA functionalities play the trick and makes `tar` and `cp` handle the large sparse file very efficiently. `lseek` with `SEEK_HOLE` returns the offset of the start of the…

How to install the MATE fork of Gnome 2 on Fedora 17?

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I miss Gnome 2. How to install the MATE fork of Gnome 2 on Fedora 17? MATE is already included into Fedora 17’s repository and is an official feature of Fedora 18. To install MATE on Fedora 17 # yum install @mate-desktop To install softwares usually needed: # yum install mate-media mate-screensaver mate-system-monitor mate-power-manager mate-utils…

Mmaping Memory Range Larger Than the Total Size of Physical Memory and Swap

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In Linux, mmap() is a system call that is used to map a portion of a file or device into the memory of a process. This can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as memory-mapped I/O, shared memory, and virtual memory management. However, when mapping a large range of memory that is larger…

Managing LVM

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Any tutorials or tips on how to manage LVM? LVM provides a flexible and easy way to management storage disks on Linux. It also provides a set of tools for management. Here are some tutorials and references for managing LVM: LVM man pages: https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-lvm/#lbAL Manage Disk Volume in Linux: http://www.hongkedavid.com/blog/disk_volume.html LVM with Xen: https://www.systutorials.com/b/linux/tag/lvm/ Remove missing phyiscal volumes…

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Where Does Evolution Save Its Data and Configuration Files on Linux?

ByEric Ma

Evolution is a great personal information management tool that provides Email, address book and calendar tools. Evolution provides many enterprise friendly feature such as native support to Microsoft Exchange connectivity for Emails, address books and calendars. Evolution uses various ways including plain files and dconf configuration systems. This post will give an introduction to the…

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A List of Common Software on Windows

ByEric Ma

Quick links to some useful software on Windows including Web browsers, Video/audio player and ssh/scpsftp/vnc tools for connecting to Linux. ssh/scp/sftp/vnc for connecting to Linux For Linux users, it is sometimes unavoidably to use Windows. With Windows, the Linux users will need to connect to Linux for some tasks. Some general software are needed. The…

How to Implement Hibernate Envers in an Application

ByJoseph Macwan

Technology Hibernate Envers is the frameworks for auditing entities. As the name suggests Hibernate Envers is developed on top of Hibernate, it will on Hibernate and Hibernate implemented JPA. Hibernate Envers provides easy auditing, versioning solution for entity classes. Advantages of Hibernate Envers: Auditing of all mappings defined by JPA specification. Auditing Hibernate specific mappings…

Deploying ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC application to Azure Web apps using Visual Studio 2017
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Deploying ASP.NET Core 2.0 MVC application to Azure Web apps using Visual Studio 2017

ByJohnnymorgan

Introduction In this tutorial, we will be learning as how to deploy .NET Core 2.0 MVC web application on Microsoft Public Cloud i.e. Microsoft Azure, using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 v15.3 For novice Cloud developers, aspiring .NET / Cloud architects, and all other IT professionals associated with the .NET Core framework & Cloud computing, especially…

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A Beginners’ Guide to x86-64 Instruction Encoding

ByEric Ma

The encoding of x86 and x86-64 instructions is well documented in Intel or AMD’s manuals. However, they are not quite easy for beginners to start with to learn encoding of the x86-64 instructions. In this post, I will give a list of useful manuals for understanding and studying the x86-64 instruction encoding, a brief introduction…

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How to force a metadata checkpointing in HDFS

ByEric Ma

The metadata checkpointing in HDFS is done by the Secondary NameNode to merge the fsimage and the edits log files periodically and keep edits log size within a limit. For various reasons, the checkpointing by the Secondary NameNode may fail. For one example, HDFS SecondaraNameNode log shows errors in its log as follows. 2017-08-06 10:54:14,488…