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MELUG North

Maine Linux User Group, Northern Chapter

MELUG North, founded in April of 1999, is the northern chapter of MELUG, the Maine Linux User's Group. We are a small group of both hobbyists and professionals, hard core Unix users and newbies.

 

Welcome!

This is the online component of Melug North. If you're in (or are thinking of moving to) Maine, USA, are closer to Bangor than other Melug chapters, and use Linux, this "social network" is a place to find news, information, and people of interest.

To join, create a Ning account if you haven't already, and then join this network. We're delighted to have you on board!

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Blog Posts

Efficient Backups Using rsync And An External Disk

I was fixing my backups the other day, went looking, and discovered rsync --link-dest. With it, rsync substitutes hard links for files that haven't changed. The result:
tria tria # du -hs backup-*1.7G    backup-2008-03-19
82M     backup-2008-03-20
40M     backup-2008-03-21
40M     backup-2008-03-22
76M     backup-2008-03-23
37M     backup-2008-03-24
63M     backup-2008-03-25
206M    backup-2008-03-26
42M     backup-2008-03-27
101M    backup-2008-03-28
70M     bac…
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Posted by Seth W. Klein on April 2nd, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments (Add)

1200x900

For some time I've been running my monitors at 1152x864. I picked it because it was a standard resolution (although uncommon) and the next one down from 1280x960 which was slightly too fuzzy. Unfortunately, it leaves me about ten characters short of three xterms across each monitor. Today I switched to 1200x900. That three xterms across has made my world a much happier place, and you know, anything that cares about resolution is going to want 1024 or 1280 anyway.

Posted by Seth W. Klein on March 10th, 2008 at 5:57pm — No Comments (Add)

XmlStarlet: XML from the Shell

While the religious fervor surrounding XML is dying and JSON is saving us from some of the more painful uses of XML, if you use the shell much, sooner or later you'll want to quickly scrape something out of a web page or other XML like document.

XSLT has a good set of functionality for this but its smallest size is a file and that's five lines long. For the shell, the smallest size must be a couple short paramete… Continue

Posted by Seth W. Klein on November 28th, 2007 at 11:19pm — No Comments (Add)

How to Generate a Summary of Gnuplot's Palette Formulae

Sometime late this morning I decided to fix a small visual artifact in a 3D plot produced by Gnuplot. That was a mistake.

After spending something like nine hours wandering around the web, poking through Gnuplot's horrible help interface at its built in documentation, rethinking my problem, rethinking my data, rethinking my goals, trying something, building a test case and trying again, and repeating the process, I am back to where I started plus o… Continue

Posted by Seth W. Klein on November 15th, 2007 at 9:37pm — No Comments (Add)

Wide Finder I

This is the first in my series of posts on Tim Bray's Wide Finder meme. It covers solving the basic problem with classic Unix shell code. Future posts should cover the "wide" part, parallelizing the problem arbitrarily.

A bit of background: As Moore's Law slips and the internet's growth does not, more and more people are interested in problems bigger than any one processor or machine can handle. So everyone had… Continue

Posted by Seth W. Klein on November 4th, 2007 at 10:55pm — No Comments (Add)

Forum

Post Formatting

If you looked at my latest web log post, you noticed the formatting of code was broken. In previous posts, it has also been less than ideal but for different reasons that no longer apply. I traced ... Continue

Started by Seth W. Klein Apr 4

Web Log Posts

Hey guys, I'm the only one who's posted any web log posts. Won't somebody chip in so it doesn't look like it's all about me? Maybe I should impersonate Alvah and copy and paste his book reviews fro... Continue

Started by Seth W. Klein Nov. 20, 2007

fall/winter/spring meetings
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Since (academic) "summer" is now over, I thought it would be better for the passers-by for us to migrate the discussions about fall/winter/spring meetings to a discussion of its own. I am interest... Continue

Started by Gagnon C.A.. Last reply by Seth W. Klein Nov. 20, 2007.

 
 

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