Category Archives: Utilities

Acer Aspire 5315 fan issue on Ubuntu (solved)

There is a (well known) (design) problem with the Acer Aspire 5315 preventing the fan to work properly and eventually shutting down the computer to protect from overheating.

Remote encrypted backup using gpg and rsync

Bare bones script to encrypt and copy all .pdf, .xls and .csv files in current directory to a remote server using rsync (I recommend rsync.net) #! /bin/bash R_USER=”<your_user>” R_HOST=”<your_host>” BASENAME=`basename “$PWD”` echo “Your destination:” read GPG_DEST find . -iname ‘*[pdf|xls|csv]‘ -exec echo ‘{}’ \; | while read f do if [ ! -f "$f".gpg ]; [...]