Monthly Archives: January 2008

Moved from Mnemosyne to FlashcardDB

When I was studying Spanish last year, I had to choose a flashcard program to memorize new words. At the time, I couldn't find any on-line program that just did the job and did it well. In a comment on my blog post from last year, however, I was pointed by Jeff to his amazing FlashcardDB. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on January 14, 2008, at 23:01 | 3 comments

Rolling back a failed rdiff-backup session on a full partition

For those of you who use rdiff-backup, you may have run into the situation where the partition you're backing up to has no more space available. This is a very annoying situation, because rdiff-backup needs space to be able to roll back the session, so you're kind of stuck. You might think: "doesn't a decent file system have a reserved amount of space for the super user?" Yes, decent file systems do, but you'll often be running rdiff-backup as root, so that won't do any good. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on January 13, 2008, at 13:01 | 1 comment

Getting your terminal unstuck

Have you ever had your terminal freezing on you for a reason you can't identify? Fret no more, because this post will save your future login session. Read More »
By halfgaar, 2 years ago, on January 13, 2008, at 13:01 | No comments