Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Just for fun … inspired by the Fedora bloggers.
# history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] \” \” i}}’|sort -rn|head
On my Fedora 8 box:
481 ls
297 cd
54 vim
24 rm
17 du
12 sudo
12 mv
9 who
9 screen
9 find
On my CentOS 5.1 box:
344 ls
234 cd
54 sudo
29 vim
23 rpm
22 ./annoying_app_i_cant_get_to_work_on_centos5
18 ./configure
16 pwd
15 wget
15 scp
On my web server:
378 ls
213 cd
130 […]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Fedora, Fun | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
I will be on vacation in India for the remainder of the year and some days into the coming year. I will be unable to answer any emails or provide any help or support for information available on my website. I apologize in advance if I owe you an email or did not respond to […]
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Do you fear the “Werewolf” * ?
The Fedora project just released Fedora 8 with a great deal of enthusiasm. Fedora had been slipping behind in the past few releases and there have always been quality issues, but the team hopes this release will put them back on track.
The highlights from the Release Summary:
Graphics/Multimedia
PulseAudio - […]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Fedora, Distributions, F8 | 10 Comments »
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
SpamAssassin is a free tool for mailservers to identify SPAM. It has a several parameters it checks (forged headers, HTML only content, blacklisted hosts, improper mail relays, etc) and assigns a score for every parameter. If the total score is greater than the threshold, it is marked as spam and either tagged, moved to a […]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Hosting, Server | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
My new Seagate Barracuda 300GB hard drive just arrived. I’ll need some time to redo my entire computer (currently there are 4 operating systems). Whenever I purchase a new harddrive (about once ever 2 years) I always put some serious evaluation into how I will partition it.
Some points I consider
Windows is primary operating system
A second […]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Devices, Setup | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 27th, 2006
When I started this blog it was a “fork of thoughts” from my main blog with a focus on software and linux. So how does a trip to Germany fit it? I decided I would try to take note of the basic differences I observed in computing. Granted Windows is used in far more public […]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Linux, Devices | No Comments »
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
About 2 years ago I purchased a Linux based PDA: the Sharp Zaurus SL-5500. The PDA was intended to be used on Windows and (later) Linux. The initial driver for Windows setup the device as a USB network device, however the latest driver set it up as a normal USB PDA. I found that using […]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Linux, Devices, Server | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Users of Fedora Core 4, SuSE 10.0 and other distributions with GCC v4 may have found some open source softwares may not compile properly. Using alternate compilers may resolve the problem. FC4 also ships with GCC v3.2. There are many ways to specify alternate compilers during the build process, below are some ways.
Environment Variables
Most softwares […]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Linux, Fedora, Development | 9 Comments »
Saturday, October 8th, 2005
I think I’m finally ready to launch a Linux only technical Blog. I have no major goals other than to document some issues that I may wish to examine at a later date. Other than that I would hope that my notes regarding my experiences or observations may be useful to the general linux user […]
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