September 27th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Linux, Slackware | No Comments »
Those who use Slackware will know who Patrick Volkerding is. For those who don’t: he is the creator and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. Also known as ‘The Man’.Browsing for articles about the history of Slackware (I might write something about it in the future), I found an interview with Pat from 1994 from [...]
September 27th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Linux, Maintenance | No Comments »
Checked your /tmp folder lately? You might be surprised how many files there are if you do not clean it on a regular basis. To keep mine tidy, I have a small script called ‘cleantmp’:#!/bin/bashfind /tmp -atime +5 -exec rm -r {} \;find /var/tmp -type f -atime +30 -exec rm {} \;
Basically it looks for [...]
September 27th, 2008 by Niels Horn in Linux, networking | 4 Comments »
Since I am on the subject of networking in Linux, here is another post about some nice things we can do: shaping our traffic so that we can limit how much of our bandwidth we use for each type of traffic.
Just as a small reminder: I am a long-time Slackware user (since 1996) and I [...]
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