Miscellaneous

Dropbox, if you pay for it, will keep deleted files for 30 days. Since a lot of my clients use Dropbox, I do, too. It just makes life easier when dealing with the clients. I use it to keep files synced between Linux Mint and Windows on my dual-boot laptop. I’ve never had to recover a deleted file before.

I recently did a reorganization of my Dropbox folders when I was using Linux Mint. I moved some folders around, renamed a few, and deleted about 16,000 old files. When I next booted to Windows, for some reason, Dropbox decided that, rather than deleting/rearranging the files to reflect what my Linux Mint Dropbox had, it wanted to merge everything from Windows and Linux Mint. All of the deleted files were now back and some of the folders were duplicated in two different places. For example, I had a MyMusic folder with all my music in it. I renamed it Music and now Dropbox has put both Music and MyMusic on my Windows drive.

It’s a sad, sad day. An online institution, LinuxChix, has shuttered its mailing lists and websites. In its heyday, LinuxChix had over 2500 mailing list members on a variety of mailing lists, from programming to newchix for newbies to linux, I asked a lot of questions on their lists and always got great, considered and considerate answers. Small wonder since the rules for membership were simple - be helpful, be polite. It was a safe space to display my ignorance. I will forever be grateful for it.

#Handy One-Liners

This page is a collection of random one-liners I’ve used and wanted to keep track of.

list contents of all crontabs

for user in $(cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd); do crontab -u $user -l; done

I loathe HTML email for many reasons. Privacy and security are two. A Google search for “html email security” returned about 328,000,000 results and “html email privacy” returned about 2,010,000,000 results. That’s billions, folks.

For me, it’s one of those “just because you can doesn’t mean you should” things. I just analyzed a corpus of 4267 messages, a mixture of personal and marketing, looking for image references. One message contained 343 references to images. Seriously? I have less images of my wedding, one of the most important events of my life. The size of the message, without the images downloaded - 188K. I don’t have the time to download all the images and come up with a true size.