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Install Firefox Nightly binaries from Mozilla

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Installation process is similar to the one for Thunderbird Daily (see this blog post). differences: binary download link: # wget "https://download.mozilla.o...

Install Thunderbird Daily binaries from mozilla

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Thunderbird Daily can be installed in most distros directly from their repos but more often than not it is outdated (they usually disable automatic updates)....

git: find out which files are ignored and why

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i had a very large global ignore list (tex/vim/linux/python specific stuff) and in this one repo git didnt add one specific folder. as it turned out the glob...

backups with rsnapshot

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a centralized backup server can easily be set up with rsnapshot. This program can pull specified remote folders with rsync. install rsnapshot edit the confi...

RPi: automount USB drives via fstab

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for mounting external usb drives one can use fstab. each column has its specific meaning (see here for definitions). for external usb drives it is important ...