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What I learned and how I recovered from Partition Table corruption due to Power failure and fsck

Had an interesting experience. Our power blinked (rapid off and on) few times. Not only did SuKam UPS pass that through the power fluctuations but continued after power has stabilized. By the time I switched off the computer, the damage was done. It would only boot to Grub prompt. Used a SSD drive from another […]

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How to auto-update CNote, Simple CLI Note Taking Application, to Google Drive Cloud

Super simple command line note taking tool for tracking breadcrumb trail during application development… CNote is a super-simple command line based Note taking application which we use to track changes, take notes before signing-off etc. during development. It can be used on all variants of Unix, Linux and Mac OS. It’s power lies in quickly […]

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DropBox client on Raspberry Pi

DropBox installer client can be installed from source on Raspberry Pi. The client expects GUI with nautilus installed which is not available by default on Pi. The installation however succeeds. You will need to install libnautilus-extension-dev and python-docutils: apt-get install libnautilus-extension-dev and python-docutils Then install using: ./configure;make;sudo make install However the whole process is in […]