Artificial Intelligence – OpenAI – Data Use and Privacy
This begins a series of articles / code-snippets / thoughts regarding use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) for data analytics – starting out primarily using...
Author: bjdean
Migrating git to svn (subversion)
I’ve found that most documentation / forum discussion around the web for this topic tends to be about migrating svn to git – so here’s...
qemu – simplest command-line for a performant VM
TL;DR You need to tell qemu to: use the local host CPU (rather than emulating one) and enable hypervisor mode, include a couple of CPU...
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Increasing / decreasing number of xargs parallel processes (at run time!)
xargs makes it very easy to quickly run a set of similar processes in parallel – but did you know when you’re half-way through a...
Vim sub-replace-special – ampersands in substitute search/replace
Curious… While editing in vim you want to search and replace including a sub-string with an ampersand (&) – this doesn’t have an special regular...
stdbuf – Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams
While piping together commands that only output intermittently we run into the pipe buffers created by the pipe() system call (also see overview of pipes...
Disk Usage
To review disk usage recursively – a few different options exist (when scanning manually through with df and du are not enough). I have found...
md (software RAID) and lvm (logical volume management)
md Building a RAID array using mdadm – two primary steps: “mdadm –create” to build the array using available resources “mdadm –detail –scan” to build...
Supporting old Debian distros
For old servers that need to stay that way (for whatever reason) updates are no longer available but you can access the packages that were...