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I have mentioned in several places in this book that typing is not my forte and that the Lazy SysAdmin does everything possible to reduce typing. I take that seriously. This tenet expands on that, but there is much more to it than just reducing the amount of typing I need to do. It is also about the readability of scripts and naming things so that they are more understandable.
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It was possible to add more memory to the PC with add-in boards that plugged directly into the system bus. I later added a 256KB memory adapter that I built from parts.
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Here is a link to an article I wrote about using rsync for backups: https://opensource.com/article/17/1/rsync-backup-linux
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Both, D. (2018). Use Commonsense Naming. In: The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3730-4_12
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