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Quickly Grow tmpfs filesystem

Just a quick command to double the size of the /tmp filesystem that uses tmpfs. This is  for those situations when you can't be...

Dealing With Windows Power Plans

Windows OS is not my forte, so I'll keep this brief. My new laptop has been annoying the hell out of me by suspending...

Duck Duck Go Search from Shell

The ddgr python script is a command line interface for Duck Duck Go  - a privacy-oriented search engine that, unlike Google, will not give...

Obfuscating Shell Scripts

Unix shell scripting language is run by the command-line interpreter and, as such, can be read and understood by anyone with sufficient access and...

Calls for a Retaliation after the SolarWinds Hack

Armchair admirals on CBS News are calling for a retaliatory attack against Russia after the SolarWinds hack. "We're not willing to attack. And that's what we're...

The Mystery of a Hemisphere

To make this long (and embarrassing) story short: a friend's kid had a homework assignment in geometry to calculate the surface area of a...

Raspbian ‘partitions on different devices’ Error

After downloading a Raspbian image and writing it to an SD card, you get the following error when trying to boot the Pi: "Could...

Tmux Bootstrap Configuration

Just a list of commands to quickly configure tmux with some of the best (i.e. my favorite) plugins and options. Feel free to disagree...

Find Large Files

Every time a filesystem is running out of space and I need to find something to delete, I end up googling the syntax for...