After some recent file system woes as well as some past system updates I ran into this error while trying to mount my encrypted home directory: Enter your login passphrase: Inserted auth tok with sig [**********************] into the user session … Continue reading
Well I wasted my day off fixing my elliptical exercise machine. The old ramp lift motor was shot and making a lot of noise (mostly when using the machine while it was static) so I replaced it with a spare … Continue reading
So once again I had to go googling the man page to find this so I’m posting it here. convert animated.gif -scene 1 +adjoin frame_%03d.gif
IOR is a file system testing tool designed to work in a clustered environment. Below is the usage instructions /*****************************************************************************\ * * * Copyright (c) 2003, The Regents of the University of California * * See the file COPYRIGHT for … Continue reading
So today I was struggling with `time’ trying to get it to redirect. Basically what I wanted to do was time the output of a file, then pipe both timing and file output to gzip for compression. After struggling with … Continue reading
Lustre is a parallel distributed file system which provides high performance capabilities and open licensing, it is often used in supercomputers and extremely large scale hosting facilities (think Netflix via their 3rd party hosts). Generally, most of the worlds largest … Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about this for a while now. To help the geeks out there who might have an interest in Lustre FS I’m going to post a series of videos on Youtube detailing how to setup and administrate a … Continue reading