Linux etc.

Rsync is really handy for transferring files and keeping directories in sync, and it’s damn fast. If you transfer only very little, what takes longest is actually establishing the SSH connection to the server. While this is usually negligible, it has still irked me. Some googling turned up this post. Nice. One SSH tunnel for […]

If you do sudo aptitude install digikam on Intrepid, you will see that aptitude would install loads of KDE packages (Dolphin and Konqueror, yikes). Apparently, this is because aptitude now by default also installs recommended packages as “dependencies”. To avoid this, use the -R flag to aptitude (see also man aptitude): sudo aptitude install -R […]