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I was playing with chroot, and I was able to reproduce an issue where it wasn’t working for anything but user ID 0.
Since this was 2009, it was probably on Unity Linux or PCLinuxOS.
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Software > Linux tools >
Uses:
- Running 32bit apps in a 64bit environment.
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A secure “jail” for software to run in and not see or touch the rest of the filesystem.
2015-05-10 update – I’ve been using some more complex stuff, which can be found around my shell-random/zsh github repository. See 3-interactive.sh and colours.sh
I’m pleased to announce that I’m the very first user to have ANSI colour in a zsh prompt. Yep, the very first. I must be, since there is no example to be found anywhere. After a serious amount of searching and fist-shaking at vague documentation, I was able to hack it out myself.
My solution is still incomplete though. Let’s walk through this nonsense..
The universe has it out for me.
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I’ve had a need and philosophy for using “light” programs, but how can one objectively determine speed or memory use? Using top and subjective opinion isn’t exact enough.
X + Remote controlling software >
This was a significant interest for paired programming during my Ruby mentoring days.
See also:
The 9×15 font versus DOSEMU’s vga font
 9×15
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 vga
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I dipped into my archives to fish out the old DOSEMU vga font. It is a thing of beauty.
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The 9×15 existed on Lubuntu and I must have been using it throughout my time up until Lubuntu’s retirement on 2016-03-26.
For a very very long time, I’ve wanted a proper backup solution for Linux.
