Stefano Barone does things I never new possible with a guitar. You can buy his CD at CANdYRAT Music. More modern guitar music for your browsing pleasure with CANdYRAT on Myspace. Wow, just wow… [More]

Bash has a built in history function that records recent shell commands. But by default it only retains a raw list of those without attaching additional information. You can add a timestamps to each command by adding something like… 1 echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F-%R%t"' >> ~/.bashrc … and then after reloading [More]

Ubuntu 9.04 bug with networking directory creation « RimuHosting Blog. I ran ifup and got the following errors root@charon ~ # ifup eth0 ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: No such file or directory … so i checked and /var/run/network did not exist… This link had a bit more technical information. They said look [More]

IMHO, there are four parts to managing services in most linux distributions. First you need to decide what services you really need. The less software you have running on your desktop or server, the easier it is to maintain long term. This is important both for security and in terms of allocating valuable resources. Use [More]

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar… and the coffee… A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty [More]

Free is a command line interface (CLI) tool available on most Linux and Unix based systems. From the man page… … displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers used by the kernel.” Running free, you get output similar to the following (by [More]

To upgrade in place for releases that are no longer officially supported please see… http://www.nzlinux.com/2009/06/upgrading-older-releases-of-ubuntu-when-support-ends/ Depending on the installation it might be substantially faster to do a clean reinstall and migrate your content from backups. YMMV. If you are already on one of the LTS [More]

So you want to use a revision control system and you picked git? Cool . Assuming you are setting a service up from scratch, check out the following… [More]

Interested in some fantasy and other online fiction?  There is lots of great content available online that will likely never see the inside of a publishers office for various reasons. But much of it is well worth reading. Heres one link, I’ll likely add more as I feel like it. http://forums.sennadar.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=777 Try [More]

Going to this tomorrow, looking forward to it immensely, although I have to admit I’m more of a genre fan than the band itself. Iron Maiden – Auckland Central – Eventfinder. Update: Been there, done that … and it was bloody great . They started off a bit slow but warmed up on the 3rd [More]