Differences among several kernel signals
Here is the final summary. Today I was fuzzied by the help content of the command ‘timeout’, as its name suggest, it a COMMAND, and kill it if still running after a specified period of time. Because of...
View ArticleProposed PPA and key management enhancement for Ubuntu Tweak
Ubuntu Tweak is a magical tool for users to configure Ubuntu easier, it has a growing amount of users. I propose to make some enhancement to provide better PPA and key security. We need to have a GPG...
View ArticleWork around of file name problem while unzip handling CJK encodings
Unzip 5.x has an option -O to specific the encoding of file names in an ZIP archive, but when 6.0 is arriving with unicode support, that option disappeared as well. CJK users need special cares on...
View ArticleSending files from initramfs busybox
I have to say busybox is so cool! Today I did an installation of Debian Squeeze using daily netinst ISO image in an i686 qemu-kvm virtual machine. I was using ext4 for /boot, and btrfs for /. The...
View ArticleVM disk performance on btrfs partition
Recently I read Alexandre Rosenfeld’s blog post about low performance of btrfs while placing VM’s disk on it, so I had a try and got almost the same result. I tried to have someone look into the...
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