Kevin Deldycke — 🦬🪒🐇🕳 yak-shaving the rabbit holes

One week ago I succeed to install the Sun’s Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on my Mandriva 2006. I avoid to use proprietary software as long as I can. Unfortunately I needed it to fill my annual tax form online… So, here is how I achieve this: Download the last …

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Today I’ve found that my websites were not backed up as expected. I was using fmirror (v0.8.4) to get a copy from my host provider to my backup machine. Here is the command line I was using: $ fmirror -kRS -u kevin -p pass -s ftp.website.com …

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Today I tried to transcode a bunch of videos using my favorite script. I need to do this because the videos produced with my cheap camera use Mjpeg as video codec and raw-data as audio codec. This result of incredible large files. To share my videos with friends, I transcode …

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This howto explain how to use rsync to build a data mirroring mechanism on a local machine, with two hard drives, ala RAID 1 , but without RAID 1 (!). I had the project to setup a RAID 5 array using 3*120 Gb hard drives in USB enclosures . Unfortunately my project …

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Some useful command to help running and setup qemu… Create an empty compressed 10 Go disk image (in qcow2 format): $ qemu-img create -f qcow2 /home/kevin/qemu-disk-image.qcow 10G Boot on your machine’s CD-Rom in qemu with previous disk image as primary HDD: $ qemu -cdrom /dev/cdrom -hda …

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