Category: Tech

Nice article on a set of patches to rsync to improve the –inplace performance. Here it is.

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I was thinking the other day, gzip is all fine and good, but why doesn’t rsync support other compression methods? There are a few use cases where using LZO (a very low latency compression algorithm) would be a better choice. One such case would be when operating with a relatively slow CPU, such as on

On Ubuntu 12.04, rsync has the --skip-compress=LIST option, which is fricken’ rad since it defaults to skipping files with the extensions 7z, avi, bz2, deb, gz, iso, jpeg, jpg, mov, mp3, mp4 ogg, rpm, tbz, tgz, z and zip. So before, when we used to agonize over whether to use the -z option if the

How have I not known about this? Inconceivable! Here’s a WebUpd8 article on zRam. This zRam software looks like the bees’ knees for low-memory systems, of which I have a few. Crazily, all one needs is a sudo apt-get install zram-config to get it going.

To be more accessible, I don’t think it would be that difficult to replace their existing system with one that just uses layered animated gifs with transparency. Even if you had to store a different gif for the different speeds that the radar data can playback, it at least allows for a short period of

awk -F, '{print $1}' CSV | sort | uniq -c | grep -vw 1 | tee /dev/tty | wc -l UPDATE: I went back and saw this post and thought to myself, “Self, why didn’t you annotate this garbage, you cheeky bastard?” OK, so the first part is pretty clear: get the first (or whichever)

I’ve written about how language can be used to control the debate in politics before. I’ve also posted before about a complete and total prosecutorial overreaction to Aaron Swartz publishing of the JSTOR documents. It seems they’re not totally disconnected ideas.

Here's What A 3D-Printed Record Sounds Like [Video] on RRW discusses the process used to generate (in a digital way, it seems) to create a 3D-printed playable 12-inch record. It sounds terrible. I was thinking it might make more sense to use an analog method like the original record was made: tell the printer to

Communicate over firewalled networks…that’s awesome: kryo.se: iodine (IP-over-DNS, IPv4 over DNS tunnel).

Git Howto is the greatest and best git tutorial of all time. Of all time.

I. Want. One. The MakerBot Replicator 2 looks fantastic! And I just watched a video where a guy made a  bunch of cool stuff with it. And I’m browsing Thingiverse like a maniac. I need help.

The Bicymple is a really cool idea for a bike! I would love it if someone could design compact inline gears for this thing. Bicymple bicycle concept

I was happy to discover Rupert Goodwin’s blog today, thanks to Cory’s post on BB about the terrible situation that the visually-impaired have with DRM on ebooks. I’d say that for at least the next 25 years or so, our best bet is on improved machine assistance rather than a biological solution, so things such