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Das Haar in der Suppe ist oftmals der Doppelklick weniger, der gute Software von schlechter unterscheidet.

For quiet some while, I play around with distributed version control systems. Particularly GIT. To think outside of the box I, sometimes try out mercurial. Mercurial works like a charm, only the lack of using a pager to display logs or other long output annoyed me. For sure I could define an alias or always [...]

Today I released version 0.0.4 of gc-utils. The new version includes various smaller fixes and code cleanup as well as a small test suite. In addition to that, I added the gc-utils(1) command, which is a wrapper around the gc-import(1), gc-update(1), etc scripts.

# gc-update -v
or …
# gc-utils update -v

Typing just gc-utils will [...]

I usually want to have my disks encrypted. As all my storage servers run on recent FreeBSDs I usually use GEOM ELI, also known as GELI, to encrypt the disks. Geli is pretty straight forward, runs out of the box on FreeBSD and is easy to set up. So when updating my storage by buying [...]