Month: November 2014
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Programming Concurrency on the JVM
https://pragprog.com/book/vspcon/programming-concurrency-on-the-jvm
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf: Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
https://pragprog.com/book/7lang/seven-more-languages-in-seven-weeks
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O’Reilly Media book: Managing NFS and NIS, 2nd Edition
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565925106.do From the publisher: A modern computer system that’s not part of a network is even more of an anomaly today than it was when we published the first edition of this book in 1991. But however widespread networks have become, managing a network and getting it to perform well can still be a problem.Managing…
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Wiley: Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781118968017.do get the Kindle edition through your local Amazon, then DRM-ize and EPUB-ize it, that’s the best path for easy future access to this nice book Save studio fees with pro-quality recording at home Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies offers simple explanations on how to record music in a home studio, no matter your…
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my Synology DiskStation now functions as a NAS to my entire I.T. landscape including Mac OS X, Windows, and NFS
http://linux.die.net/man/5/exports – /etc/exports Actually (as you might remember) there is not just one Synology DiskStation (AKA NAS) here, but three of them – you will find more information here on the blog, if you follow category Synology or NAS. So I am referring to my “primary” NAS here. NFS is the most recent achievement, and…
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using a Synology DiskStation as an NFS4 server – client is an openSUSE in a virtual machine
Facts (smile!): the Synology DSM NFS server keeps its “mount information files” (etab, rmtab, …) at /var/lib/nfs/rmtab as opposed to /etc, where they “usually” go make sure, that /var/lib/nfs/rmtab exists, otherwise you will find ongoing complaints in /var/log/messages; a “touch …/rmtab” will do … “Last resort” resp. “desaster” suggestions – they should always only be of temporary…
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music: Asaf Avidan: “the house of the rising sun” – live with Orchestra e Haggai Fershtam (batteria)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dkqc7UAjg4
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PSmisc – small utilities that use the /proc filesystem
http://psmisc.sourceforge.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pstree I failed compiling the PSmisc package on OS X 10.10 AKA Yosemite. Maybe I wasn’t patient enough. If I had a running Fink system these days, I wouldn’t even bother installing PSmisc resp. pstree myself. But my Fink system broke little after upgrading to Yosemite.
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working with an epub document as a reader – expectations …
Does your reader / viewer software support you annotating, and highlighting, and bookmarking (that is your “reading state”), and quoting from documents to your blog, to Facebook, to Twitter? Where does your viewer keep your reading state? Keeping it inside the epub file has advantages (easier to share), keeping it apart has advantages as well…
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EPUB is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB