What is with the systemd name?!…

… Lot’s of confusion when the name “systemd” is included in the path or file name for config files used by other utilities outside of systemd!

As part of an ongoing functionality grab, udev functionality is being subsumed by the systemd project and that includes various config files…

Hence there was some confusion suffered by . . . → Read More: What is with the systemd name?!…

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:

. . . → Read More: A History of Linux Filesystems (linux.conf.au 2014 video)

“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.

you now only . . . → Read More: “df” no longer shows all mounted mounts!

Access your own domain from within your LAN (NAT loopback on DD-WRT issue)

This seems to apply to all versions of DD-WRT at the time of writing (2014/01/06 [yyyy/mm/dd]).

You’ve just bought yourself a domain (foo.bar). You test your webserver from within the LAN “https://myserver” and it works. Joy!

You then update your public DNS record with an “A” entry, point it at your WAN IP (which your . . . → Read More: Access your own domain from within your LAN (NAT loopback on DD-WRT issue)