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Partition /dev/sd* namespace FAIL

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Just as I zipped my backpack closed to head home from JavaOne, I overheard a conversation. One of the JBoss booth staff had been trying to find something on a media for an attendee. I inquired, and it turned out they were looking for Fedora media; one of the fellows had a laptop […]

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Running fsck on a LUKS encrypted partition in LVM

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Coming back from a reboot yesterday afternoon, I ran into some bad attribute blocks that fsck couldn’t handle in the boot space and shelled me out to take care of it. Since I was not in the office or staying there for much longer, I powered down to take care of when I got […]

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Counting words in Emacs

Friday, February 8, 2008

It’s long hassled me that Emacs doesn’t support word count by default. This morning I got tired of using wc to count words and did a little search via Google. Right at the top of the list is DJ Delorie’s “Programming in Emacs Lisp”. This page teaches how to create this function, […]

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