Apache2 php Big File Handling (for ownCloud6 file upload/download)

By default, ownCloud limits file uploads and downloads to a maximum of 512MBytes in one gulp. Can you take that higher? How large can you go?…

The file size limit for uploads/downloads is set in the underlying php parameters “upload_max_filesize” and “post_max_size”. With those, for consistency also good is to set proportionately the “output_buffering” parameter…

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RaspberryPi and multiple SBCs Desert! (ARM)

(“Rev 03” work-in-progress… 😉 All details as of Feb 2014.)

We have the continuing rise of the RaspberryPi taking an ever greater proportion of the world by storm, now beyond two million and counting. Can the RasPi alone revitalize computer education and the present day world of computer hobbyists?

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Streetwise Standardised Hieragylphs

Something of interest especially for those unfortunates suffering the long under-construction Nottingham tram routes, and quite a curiosity:

What do those [coloured spray-paint] squiggles on the pavement actually mean?

Look down at British roads and pavements and there’s often a slew of squiggles, dots and arrows, painted in a plethora of hues. But what . . . → Read More: Streetwise Standardised Hieragylphs

A History of Linux Filesystems (linux.conf.au 2014 video)

David Chinner of Red Hat has given a very good presentation of how the various multitudinous many filesystems used in Linux have developed since 1993 in terms of features, code commits, lines of code changed, and for what all that means.

A video of his presentation from this year’s (2014) linux.conf.au can be found on:

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“df” no longer shows all mounted mounts!

This was a small surprise after the latest updates to Gentoo…

The command “df” shows all presently mounted filesystems… Except it doesn’t for the latest version!

For the df version now on Gentoo:

# df –version df (GNU coreutils) 8.21 Packaged by Gentoo (8.21 (p1.0)) Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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