Monthly Archives: September 2011

Temperature indicator

I have a sony vaio f11 laptop. It’s pretty quick for a laptop, but it also runs pretty hot. (Sony has a bios update that supposedly cools it down a bit – by some reports at the expense of performance … Continue reading

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Sharing mounts with a container

Sometimes you might want to mount a device or directory tree into a running container. Since the container is in its own mounts namespace, you can’t just mount it under /var/lib/lxc/container/rootfs – that mount won’t get forwarded to the container. … Continue reading

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cloud backups

Having recently narrowly skirted disaster, I’ve decided to redouble my backup efforts. I’ve been using Ubuntu One for about a year. I’m going to keep using it for music and such. However, I also was using it to back up … Continue reading

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