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How to increase the root partition size on Fedora

Boot up with an Fedora Live USB stick.

Run vgs to check if there's any space:

$ sudo vgs
  VG     #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize    VFree
  fedora   1   3   0 wz--n- <237.28g    0

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Linux Backup Solutions

I've been looking for the best Linux backup system, and also reading lots of HN comments.

Instead of putting pros and cons of every backup system I'll just list some deal-breakers which would disqualify them.

Also I would like that you, the HN community, would add more deal breakers for these or other backup systems if you know some more and at the same time, if you have data to disprove some of the deal-breakers listed here (benchmarks, info about something being true for older releases but is fixed on newer releases), please share it so that I can edit this list accordingly.

Amanda (comments by sammcj)

It has a lot of management overhead and that's a problem if you don't have time for a full time backup administrator.

JankyBrowser

The only cross-platform browser that fits in a Gist!

One line install. Works on Linux, MacOSX and Windows.

Local Install

$&gt; npm install http://gist.github.com/morganrallen/f07f59802884bcdcad4a/download

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Names of latest versions of each package
	export VERSION_PCRE=pcre-8.39
	export VERSION_ZLIB=zlib-1.2.8
	export VERSION_LIBRESSL=libressl-2.4.2
	export VERSION_NGINX=nginx-1.11.3

	# URLs to the source directories
	export SOURCE_LIBRESSL=http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/

	// Comcast Cable Communications, LLC Proprietary. Copyright 2014.
	// Intended use is to display browser notifications for critical and time sensitive events.
	var _ComcastAlert = (function(){
	return {
	SYS_URL: '/e8f6b078-0f35-11de-85c5-efc5ef23aa1f/aupm/notify.do'
	, dragObj: {zIndex: 999999}
	, browser: null
	, comcastCheck: 1
	, comcastTimer: null
	, xmlhttp: null

	#!/bin/bash

	database='database'
	user='user'
	pass='pass'

	charset='utf8mb4'
	collate='utf8mb4_unicode_ci'

	echo "Changing charset of database: $database"

	# You don't need Fog in Ruby or some other library to upload to S3 -- shell works perfectly fine
	# This is how I upload my new Sol Trader builds (http://soltrader.net)
	# Based on a modified script from here: http://tmont.com/blargh/2014/1/uploading-to-s3-in-bash

	S3KEY="my aws key"
	S3SECRET="my aws secret" # pass these in

	function putS3
	{
	path=$1

	<?php

	if (!isset($_GET['url'])) {
	?>
	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<meta charset="utf-8">
	<title>Youtube RSS creator</title>
	<form>
	<p>Create an RSS feed for the videos on the following page:
	<p><input name="url" placeholder="E.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow/videos" style="width: 30em">

	<?php
	/**
	* @version 3.0.x
	* @package Simple Image Gallery Pro
	* @author JoomlaWorks - http://www.joomlaworks.net
	* @copyright Copyright (c) 2006 - 2014 JoomlaWorks Ltd. All rights reserved.
	* @license http://www.joomlaworks.net/license
	*/

	// no direct access