Blog Archive: September 2025

I have a DEC VT320 dumb terminal, it sat in storage for many years before I decided to get it out and use it as a console on my Linux Mint 18.3 (Sylvia) system. These are my notes on configuring it. They should apply to most Debian/Ubuntu based distros running systemd. One of my criteria is that I did not want it to be the primary

I've been using rsync a bit lately. It's a pretty nifty tool. Nine times out of ten I just use rsync -avz source/* dest/ and let it go. But recently while trying to sort out the giant mess of data I've accumulated over the years into something manageable and useful, I discovered another use for it. Typically if I needed to