mathie's bits

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  • /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

    Instead: “find . -name ‘abc*’ | xargs rm”

  • Turnitin.com

    Pretty cool technology but probably only good at catching those that stupidly enough to copy the whole paper.

  • cPanel – httpd on xxxx failed

    httpd failed @ Fri Oct 28 16:02:27 2005. A restart was attempted automagicly. cPanel needs a spell checker. Automagicly = fix w/ magic

  • Fun – Fitness studio

    Fitness studio – fitness_studio.wmv a cute/funny video

  • Mike Lazaridis featured on CNN

    CNN.com – BlackBerry co-creator a�national icon – Oct 24, 2005: “Mike Lazaridis” It also mentions UW. Thanks CNN and other news channels for this marketing boost for the school.

  • Linus Torvalds – Philosophy

    “If you’re too commercial,” Torvalds says, “you end up being too shortsighted. You have a ‘this is what we need’ mentality, and you blow everything else off. But you want the commercial side, because commercial forces end up listening to different customers and meeting different needs compared to those doing it just for fun.”

  • Crontab format

    * * * * * command to be executed – – – – – | | | | | | | | | —— day of week (0 – 6) (Sunday=0) | | | ——– month (1 – 12) | | ———- day of month (1 – 31) | ———— hour (0 – 23) ————-…

  • Redirect crond(pam_unix) syslog messages

    If you see too many of these lines: root@s1 trungson]# tail /var/log/messages Oct 16 12:36:01 s1 crond(pam_unix)[21821]: session closed for user root Here is how to redirect it to a more appropriate place [root@s1 trungson]# more /etc/syslog.conf … *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;auth.!=info /var/log/messages … # Log cron stuff, add auth.info to redirect cron logging cron.*;auth.info /var/log/cron

  • Mirrors – Setting Up

    Apache http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html PHP http://www.php.net/mirroring.php CentOS http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=22 PuTTY http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/mirrors.html MySQL http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/how-to-mirror.html OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html CPAN http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_mirror_CPAN Curl ProFTPD LDP LVS sudo KDE

  • Linux – Change timezone

    [root@s5 etc]# cp /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.bkup [root@s5 etc]# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern localtime cp: overwrite `localtime’? y [root@s5 etc]# date Sat Oct 15 21:38:52 EDT 2005 Just to be sure it’s correct [root@s5 etc]# rdate -s rdate.darkorb.net