I had a wiki in MoinMoin for sys admin notes and scraps of code and solutions – all the stuff you accumulate to try and not have to solve the same problem over and over from scratch. Moin Moin was flat directory structure coded in python. It’s elegant – but the search function started blowing…
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How NOT to buy a laptop
I have a 10.1" Dell Netbook that I love – except… Except that it has an Atom processor and even with an upgrade to 2GB RAM, every once in a while it just chugs, spinning and processing for minutes, unable to respond at all. It has a 600 x 1028 screen – it turns out,…
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I am required to connect to a VPN, even internally. This means that using linux at work requires getting that VPN session to complete, on any version of linux I am going to productively use. I have used Crunchbang for the last four months, primarily because it connected to our Juniper VPN right out…
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I run windows for Adobe Lightroom, an occasional foray into outlook, and for iTunes, Adobe Elements and Photoshop. I run linux for the terminal, the native command line for system administration, and for development. I am working with Jenkins Continuous Integration platform, which runs easily on Ubuntu. I’ve run development versions of a LAMP stack…
Continue Readingfind large files recursively
find the large files through a filesytem cd [some directory] du -ak | sort -nr | more search for a specific string through recursively, returning context and server if the string is found… for i in `du -ak | egrep -v \.svn | awk ‘{ print $2 }’` do if [[ `grep…
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