Was just looking for quick and easy way to sort the files, which should be compressed/archived using tar and bzip/gz/xz etc. As another guy already figured out before I did, it's rather important in which order the files are stored in an archive. I don't ...

Something that always bugged me, was the speed of the /dev/urandom device, which provides random data. I needed it to benchmark some network devices and urandom just wasn't fast enough for that :-D
Anyway, openssl provides also a way to generate some random data, which is much faster ...

So since I run some old/slow hardware, I want to get the max out of them, speedwise, without upgrading anything on the hardware side. So one of the things I do is to re-compile the applications/libraries with some customized CFlags. CFlags allow you to instruct your compiler (GCC ...