This is a repository for the thoughts, notes, and achievements of Mr. Jacob Hume. It contains posts on a large variety of subjects, technical and otherwise.
Posted on 2022-03-06 (Updated on 2022-03-06)
Every piece of hardware I have seems to have its own built-in sound device. Thunderbolt docks, USB3 hubs... even HDMI and display port carry sound. On my laptop, I only want to use a few of them - but every time I connect another device, it becomes the default sound card.
Posted on 2021-10-30 (Updated on 2021-10-30)
After creating a whole host of backup DVDs, you might be faced with a dilema; how to verify that each disk was burned properly. Backups aren't backups until they are tested!
rsync and link-dest
Posted on 2021-04-12 (Updated on 2021-04-12)
I use rsync to back up many servers and other machines. Because of my very
different sources and targets, I have a collection of very complex bash scripts
that manage these backups. When I moved one stage of these backups to a new
server, it started behaving strangely - and it was difficult to discover why.
Posted on 2020-11-20
Sometimes I need to uncompress large archives located in remote locations - for instance, in Amazon S3. Most normal approaches to uncompressing archives involve resource-intensive processes, like downloading the entire file into memory - an approach not tenable for multi-gigabyte files.
Posted on 2020-01-16 (Updated on 2021-12-13)
Whitespace causes lots of interesting issues with the command line - whether it is present in file names, arguments, or any other data flowing between commands. Quoting can help, but there's some very particular edge cases I've encountered in my scripts.
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