In Finder -> Preferences -> General there is a checkbox option to show ‘Connected servers’. Use that to show connected servers and then you can make aliases for them. I learned about this setting today over here.
Category Archives: Sys Admin
5 lines I put in a blank .vimrc
See 5 lines I put in a blank .vimrc for some sensible defaults… my .vimrc is rather a bit longer…
Vagrant
There are a bunch of great examples of using vagrant for testing purposes in
High Availability for the LAMP Stack: Eliminate Single Points of Failure and Increase Uptime for Your Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP Based Web Applications by Jason Cannon which I have on my Kindle.
This is how I git
Bumped into This is how I git which is full of tips about working with git.
Protecting TimeMachine backups from itself
Today I bumped into Protecting TimeMachine backups from itself. A good article, covers various TimeMachine Mac things including `tmutil`.
What is a database backup (back to the basics)
Today I saw What is a database backup (back to the basics), which I probably should have read more closely than I did.
Wikimedia’s CDN
This article about Wikimedia’s CDN popped up on lobste.rs today.
What it takes to run Stack Overflow
Today What it takes to run Stack Overflow popped up on r/programming. It’s an old article (2013) but still interesting. It referenced Performance is a Feature and made the bold-font claim that “the cost of inefficient code can be higher than you think.”
Linux File Timestamps Explained: atime, mtime, and ctime
Today I discovered an article explaining Linux file system timestamps: Linux File Timestamps Explained: atime, mtime, and ctime; and a good thing too, because I always thought ‘ctime’ was ‘create time’, but not so! Turns out that ‘ctime’ is ‘change time’, similar to ‘mtime’ but apparently cannot be set from userspace. My investigations were prompted by my investigations info how `borg create` identified changed files.
The unrealized potential of federation
Today I read The unrealized potential of federation.