A year ago, I built a Raspberry Pi based car computer to provide music, along with weather, location and speed information, while going on a road trip around Australia. At the start of the trip, the computer used an external USB Huawei K3715 3G Dongle for Internet connectivity. The system…
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Watching the progress of a dd action
dd is one of those indispensable Unix / Linux utilities whether its cloning or wiping a drive or simply creating a bootable flash drive from an image file. The problem is operations like wiping a drive with the output from /dev/zero can take an extremely long time especially on larger…
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Ever wanted real time backups of directories on your server? To replicate static media files for a website to a separate box to reduce load? An easy solution lays with lsyncd it allows you to watch a directory structure on your file system, and replicate any changes on a remote…
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