Monthly Archives: November 2005

In addition to my rant below… A coworker today (an Ubuntu user) was trying to use the Gnu tool ‘sort’. ‘sort’ has a switch to ignore case, but we didn’t want it to ignore case (in essense, preserve case, or … Continue reading →

As soon as I get a free weekend here I am going back to Gentoo. I have given Ubuntu what I consider a fair shake and it just doesn’t live up to the hype. It does do some things for … Continue reading →

quick and dirty…that’s how I like it. Continually stopping and starting tomcat is a pain, as I have said before. ctrl+r makes it a little more bearable b/c I can recall the shutdown.sh script. But, better still (and why it … Continue reading →

While I am not a big fan of QT based apps, I installed KAlarm today. My main problem is that I don’t often realize how much time I have been using the computer and time flys by and then I … Continue reading →

I have to wonder if people that develop for one distro ever try another? It would seem that they do not. No wonder there are so many. AFAICT Debian’s init system hasn’t changed in 100 years. It’s essentially a series … Continue reading →

As I was driving home tonite from dinner with Eric, I was thinking…what 10 things should every linux admin know. I am not going to qualify each one with the statement “in my opinion”…it is implied. I came up with … Continue reading →

I guess the people that set up the dollar tree’s AP where 1337 Hax0rz.

There have to be much better ways to do this :) netstat –numeric-ports -lp | grep :80 | awk -F” ” ‘{print $7}’ | awk -F\/ ‘{print $2}’ | sudo xargs killall -9 && sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

A coworker gave me this script and it rules: set pause off set echo off set scan on set verify off set pagesize 0 set feedback off set recsep off set termout off spool drop_&1._objects.sql select ‘spool drop_&1._objects.log’ from dual … Continue reading →