Daniel Perelman
The problem# For certain applications it can be useful to get many quick responses from the computer, so we would like it to react to individual keypresses instead of requiring an entire command to be typed out and confirmed by pressing Enter. While this is a common feature of GUI and TUI toolkits...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# You know how to make a bootable flash drive, but you want to actually use it to install a permanent operating system (OS) onto your computer. The solution# Luckily, modern OS installs are very straightforward. Just download the installation image (e.g. Debian Linux or Windows 11), put...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# So you've built a new computer with fresh blank storage. How do you actually do anything with that computer that has no software? Navigating the BIOS menus can only hold your interest for so long. The solution# The old way of doing things was to have a bootable CD or DVD, but now that...
Daniel Perelman
The problem# When running an incremental backup with rsync with the --progress flag, it often spends lot of time outputting nothing as it scans through many unchanged files. If you think of it before starting the transfer, --info=progress2 or the name2/skip2 --info flags would give more detail,...