Tag Archives: Linux

CopyFS Update

Posted on September 20, 2013 by M@

Years ago I added features to CopyFS 1.0, then 1.0.1 came out and I never bothered to forward-port my changes. After spending some time moving, merging, rebasing, etc. in git this morning, CopyFS 1.3.1M is CopyFS 1.0.1 + CopyFS 1.3M. … Continue reading →

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Ruby 2 From Source on CentOS 6.4

Posted on September 13, 2013 by M@

Ruby‘s autoconf doesn’t alert you to the fact that your system doesn’t have everything it could use. It’ll blindly clear you even though, for example, nothing crypto-related will work. On a fresh CentOS 6.4 install (with EPEL) the following will … Continue reading →

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Which Oar Best Rows The Boat

Posted on August 22, 2013 by M@

Ted Dzuiba wrote a post that boiled down to identifying his own “language bigotry” as a step along the way to software engineering “Mastery”. He’s absolutely correct about introspecting why one chooses to “fight” other languages. And by saying “languages” I could … Continue reading →

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find -delete

Posted on March 28, 2012 by M@

If I hear one more person recommend using a pipe to xargs or -exec rm -f {}  to the question “how can I make ‘find’ delete the files it finds?” I’m going to scream. It’s really simple: find /wherever -mtime … Continue reading →

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Use MongoDB

Posted on November 8, 2011 by M@

So an Anonymous Coward’s pastebin rant against MongoDB has an awful lot of legs. I circulated a few thoughts yesterday morning to head-off the inevitable concerns of “um, we’re doing a lot with Mongo, and now I’m nervous”: [It] really … Continue reading →

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Dear MongoDB

Posted on June 16, 2011 by M@

Dear MongoDB, I would like to use the positional operators you have for updates, ala ‘user.$.name’, in the field selectors for queries, ala find({“user.name”: “Matt”},{“user.$.address”}) such that I can see only the fields of that sub-document/sub-object in my return data … Continue reading →

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FOSS’s Microsoft Hatred "a Disease"

Posted on July 27, 2009 by M@

Purloined wholesale from SlashDot, and reposted. The hypocrisy of a vocal minority of FOSS-purists has been overwhelming. As Linus accurately points out, we’re all in it for selfish reasons. No one likes working on the boring bits, and we all … Continue reading →

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[ANNOUNCE] CopyFS 1.3M

Posted on February 14, 2006 by M@

[UPDATE: There is a newer version of CopyFS available] CopyFS 1.3M is a non-official branch of the CopyFS filesystem for FUSE. v1.3M should be considered an “advanced beta”. As it is a FUSE filesystem, faults in the filesystem cannot cause … Continue reading →

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CopyFS is now even cooler

Posted on February 12, 2006 by M@

[UPDATE: There is a newer version of CopyFS available] Some backstory: I used to write a LOT of code in the C programming language. I used to be actively involved in numerous open-source programs that used C. Hell, I even … Continue reading →

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