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Smooth upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode

A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode VM (the machine which hosts this blog). I had upgraded to 7.10 a while back, so it was unlikely to be much of a challenge… But it was great to see another very smooth upgrade, without any manual workarounds required at all.
While the […]

Faster OpenSSH 4.7p1 in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

A couple of weeks ago, while chatting with Rob, I mentioned that John gave me an awesome tip that I use all the time: The pget command in lftp, particularly for sftp downloads. That’s right: Not only does lftp provide a sweet interface for sftp, but it can also make multiple connections and download in […]

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