Monthly Archives: February 2013

Google was going to put up one its famous Google Doodles featuring the Asteroid 2012 DA14 which was passing Earth on February 15, 2013 at 19:25 UTC. But the other meteorite event in Russia caused them to drop the doodle because … Continue reading →

I was in the process of securely wiping some disks on a Linux box when I did a df and got the following output: demo@x225:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 130G 2.7G 120G 3% / … Continue reading →

Found this online today as I was setting up a new Ubuntu 12.10 server – a quick way to set up the authorized_keys to allow passwordless ssh login. After you have created public and private keys on your workstation simply … Continue reading →

I was looking a laptops for a friend and he didn’t want the bilingual keyboards found that seem to be everywhere in Canada’s big-box stores. Personally, I can’t stand them either – the half-size left shift key that always has me … Continue reading →