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- Keyboard shortcuts in bash and zsh
- Even though I prefer the most basic of shells, good help pointsBy the way. How about some tips for the mass's on some of the powerful shell commands/utilities.grep - search files for string - search piped input - searching for...
- Tags: Document management, keyboard, droolin, printing
- Discussion threads 2007-04-27
- Power generators place uncertain bets on CO2
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18158460/So it comes down to the coperationsutilities that produce the greatest amount of carbon want to start changing right now. But as I have said over and over again, the individuals/groups that have trumpted global warming can not agree on how it should be done. And that by...
- Tags: CO2, droolin
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- perl capturing mysqldump error message
- I have written a short perl script that will read a configuration file to backup the mysql database's using the mysqldump. This perl script acquires it's input from a config file that any user can maintain with userid, password, if its a daily/weekly/monthly/annual backup, the directory the backup .sql...
- Tags: Backups, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, droolin, Perl, backup, mysqldump, error message, config file
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- NASA: We need open sourcers, mad scientists (and maybe marketers)
- Naaa, skip Budwiser. How about the Viagra space capsule.Guaranteed to keep you going to no matter what the emergency. Or viagra plastered on their air locks which filter contaminations. roflmao, the quicker picker upperhave this tshirt by the way. hehehehe, should I go on?roflmao, I am seriously...
- Tags: droolin, NASA
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- (Screenshots: Mozilla revs up Thunderbird 2)
- thunderbird 2Did I read that correctly that thunderbird will let you now follow blogs?????? I use thunderbird, never mind. I'll just update it tonight when I get home and find out.[i]Thunderbird 2 allows you to have your e-mail delivered from other sources. Gmail and .Mac users just need to...
- Tags: E-mail clients, droolin, Thunderbird 2, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- Iowans can get up to $29 for copy of Microsoft software
- http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2007-04-18-microsoft-iowa-settlement_N.htmOk, it's all over a law suit about illegal monopolization and anti-competitive conduct from 1994 to 2006. And it looks like they lost again.[i]For each copy of Microsoft Windows or MS-DOS, customers can claim $16 a copy, Microsoft Excel is worth $25 a copy and Microsoft Office, $29 a...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, droolin, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Back up my Mac: SilverKeeper gets it done for free
- Thanks for the backup sugestionI don't use a Mac, but I work with alot of people do. Both at home, and at work. I work for a publishing company, lots of artists.I just sent the link to this article to someone and he test drove it here at...
- Tags: Desktops, droolin, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- It's Good to be Thin
- Hope so anywayBesides the cost factor, how many of you find when you do an inventory of your user population find numerous access db's and spread sheets that these users are maintaining for their own reporting needs. How much data is duplicated and spread out where you have no...
- Tags: Thin clients, Servers, Desktops, droolin, thin client, server, desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- The price of .com and .net domains are going up
- http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/04/09/verisign-increases-pricing-for-com-and-net/Well, this sucks. I have at least two domains that end in .com or .net. I also wonder what this is going to do with the reseller buisness that I just got into.I have seen postings here from web developers, and I thought I would pass this on because...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, droolin, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2007-04-16
- TR, can I make a sugestion? Hammer, big hammer. Real big hammer
- grrrrr, road rage has nothing on what I have been saying about my experience in trying to either read or make post's here the last couple days.If the hammer doesn't work. Drop kick the server down the steps.DanThursday was worst for meEvery single stinkin' page I tried to load...
- Tags: droolin, hammer
- Discussion threads 2007-04-14
- Protect PHP with Suhosin
- On a web server that hosts commerical shellsWould this be a good way of trying to lock down what the people did?I hate php, sorry. I don't trust it. But, I have to offer it on this server because people request it and these people pay me money...
- Tags: Scripting languages, droolin, PHP
- Discussion threads 2007-04-13
- Real-world 'equivalents' of fictional 1980s robots
- I love the Al Gore Comparison, too funnylolDanmissed a few ...Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo are inseperable, this is true, yet by the same token of logic one cannot have R2-D2 on the list without C3P0.Am I right? Am I right?Why yes I am, yes I am.That would...
- Tags: Robots, droolin, robot
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- 10 things you should know about automated backup programs
- I always considered automatic email notification should be a part of backupWhat I don't think people understand is that data is shared ownership. System admins, application developers, users, and your customers all have a large stake in data being backed up properly. From my experience the sysadmin or...
- Tags: Backups, droolin, backup
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- WHO'S BEHIND CRIMINAL BOT NETWORKS?
- http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/04/whos_behind_cri.html#postsThe most important quote in this article to me is:[b][i]Driven by revenge[/i][/b]..[i]Last year, a noted Russian spammer nicknamed PharmaMaster – he usually advertises pharmaceuticals – felt his business was endangered by a Silicon Valley anti-spam startup named Blue Security.PharmaMaster initiated an attack that crippled Blue Security’s Web site. The firm...
- Tags: SECURITY, Banking, Spam, droolin, network, Blue Security, PharmaMaster, bot, attack
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- "Clandestine Services History: The Berlin Tunnel Operation,1952-1956,"
- [b]CLANDESTINE SERVICES HISTORY: THE BERLIN TUNNEL[/b][i]The Central Intelligence Agency has released a newly declassified version of its closely-held internal history of the Berlin Tunnel Operation, which was an effort in themid-1950s to tap into Soviet communications through a tunnel constructed in the Soviet sector of Berlin. The operation was...
- Tags: droolin, CIA, Clandestine Services History, Berlin Tunnel Operation, internal history, Soviet
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- Is nothing sacred anymore - a GUI on a mainframe?
- Walkersgui for the babies that want to play with a real computerBut don't know how. Bet you the walkergui will be a hell of alot more stable then any window's gui with no blue screen of death. And if a blue screen of death appears, it won't drop...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operating systems, droolin, GUI, mainframe, Novell NetWare
- Discussion threads 2007-04-03
- Designers Work to Rescue a Dying Art Form -- the Album Cover
- http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/03/listeningpost_0402Ok, I like what is trying to be achieved here but the reason I posted this link was for this comment only. [i]"The major labels have broken away from something that they were extremely good at in the past, which was the development of their particular act or artist,"...
- Tags: droolin, RIAA, wall
- Discussion threads 2007-04-02
- Disaster recovery worst practices: Don't test your backups
- Chuckle, so you read the article about the 38 billion dollar oops?That should be your primary example of why backups should always be tested. Accidental reformat of both primary and backup drives. Tape backups didnt work? Why, never know will they. They never tested.Dan
- Tags: Backups, droolin, backup, disaster recovery
- Discussion threads 2007-03-31
- Scalix potentially a serious contender to Exchange
- deleteNothing like replying to an article that is 2 years old to make a person feel really stupid.DanI don't know, Dan....I don't know, Dan. I was lead to this old article, and your new post, via a new current article probably the same as you were.I'm sure your post was...
- Tags: droolin, Dan, Scalix Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- Creating virtual hosts with Apache
- good articleWhat you laid out in your article are the battles I fought when I first was setting up apache on my home machine. Took me time to figure some of this out, and I still run to the main site docs section when I have to redo a...
- Tags: SSL/TLS, Authentication/Encryption, Network security, droolin, virtual host, SSL, Apache Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2007-03-29
