Warning: The following details a process that is no longer supported. I do not yet have a replacement. (2012 November 13) Last weekend, I updated my HTPC with all new hard drives and software. I had been putting it off because of an incompatibility between my IR receiver and the latest kernel drivers. But a [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Linux category.
~/.ssh/config
~/.ssh/config is a file I have not had occasion to use until today. Evidently not many other people use it very often either, because finding the information I needed was more difficult than it should have been. Thus, this post is meant to make it easier to find. I am currently hosting a private Minecraft [...]
4KB Sectors
I just want to give a quick note here about 4KB sectors in newer hard drives. If you follow technology at all, you are probably aware that new hard drives from Western Digital are using their “advanced format technology.” All this really means is that each physical sector of the drive is 4096 bytes (4KB) [...]
A Package Management Comparison
This post is about application installation and management on Mac OS X. I know someone who is about to make their first Mac purchase (at least since OS X was released). I think they will find this information useful. As we all know, almost all applications for Microsoft Windows are installed via an installer application. [...]
