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Mounting USB Storage in Proxmox: A Complete Guide
When working with Proxmox clusters, properly mounting external storage can sometimes be tricky. This guide walks through the process of mounting a USB drive in Proxmox, ensuring it...
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The Power of Unix-Style Simplicity: Building an Automated Blog Platform
In an era dominated by complex content management systems and heavyweight frameworks, there's profound elegance in combining traditional Unix tools with simple Python scripts to cr...
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Python: When It Becomes a Jenga Tower
Python is best thought of as "bash on steroids" - it excels at tasks where bash feels limiting, offering a clean syntax for automation and scripting. However, like using ...
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The Unstoppable Force of Open Source: On Principles, Parasites, and Progress
The recent drama around Debian's departure from X/Twitter exposes a deeply troubling disconnect in the Linux community. While keyboard warriors rage about "political correctness," ...
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The Early Days of Mozilla Firefox
In the late 1990s, the browser wars were raging, with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer vying for dominance. Netscape, founded in 1994, was the pioneering browser ...
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Building a Python Blog Post Management Utility (because manually updating my index.html file was getting old)
Managing a static blog can be tedious, especially when it comes to updating the index page with new posts. Today, I'm excited to share a Python utility I've developed that automate...
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The Challenges of Preserving Old Mozilla Versions on Linux and UNIX
The Mozilla application suite, which evolved from Netscape, has a rich history that spans over two decades. The suite was discontinued in favor of Firefox's more simple codebase. H...
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