An attic or a loft is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building (also called garret or sky parlor). As attics fill the space between the ceiling of the top floor of a building and the slanted roof, they are known for being awkwardly shaped spaces with exposed rafters and difficult-to-reach corners.
While some attics are converted into bedrooms or home offices, complete with windows and staircases, most attics remain difficult to access (usually by a loft hatch and ladder), and are generally used for storage. It is a word ultimately derived from the Attica region around Athens, Greece (via Attic style architecture).
Attics can also help control temperature in a house by providing a large mass of slowly moving air. Hot air rising from lower floors of a building often gets retained in the attic, further compounding their reputation as inhospitable environments. However, in recent years many attics have been insulated to help decrease heating costs since on average, uninsulated attics account for 15% of the total energy loss in an average house.
An attic is an area above a house.
Attic may also refer to:
Attic is a Backup system written mostly in Python (some performance critical parts are implemented in C and Cython).
Attic development began in 2010 and was accepted to Debian in Aug 2013.
Attic offers efficient, deduplicated, compressed and (optionally) encrypted and authenticated backups.
A backup includes metadata like owner/group, permissions, POSIX ACLs and Extended file attributes. It handles special files also - like hardlinks, symlinks, devices files, etc.
It uses a Rolling hash to implement global chunk-level deduplication. Compression defaults to zlib, encryption is AES (via OpenSSL) authenticated by a HMAC.
Attic is available from pip and notably part of Debian, Ubuntu, Arch and Slackware.
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I had to wash away the dust To find a better way of life Now I can see the truth again And all my senses are alive
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If you are lost and don't know why Don't be afraid to make a change 'Cause if you don't you'll never see The possibilities you have
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When we let go, we open up You shouldn't wait another day Around the corner lies the chance To leave your sorrows all behind