Recursive wget
I love wget. I’ve used it in the past to quickly snag the contents of entire web directories, and tonight I learned a few more tricks it can do. Namely, it can recurse down as many levels deep from...
View Article2007 Sysadmin Of The Year
Last week there was a story on slashdot pointing to www.sysadminoftheyear.com, a site where folks can go to nominate their IT staff for Sysadmin of the Year. They were offering free T-Shirts to the...
View ArticleUbuntu Gutsy Gibbon – Home Server Setup
So, Ubuntu Gutsy came out a few days ago, and I’ve got a new server that I’m going to be using at home. This server is actually an old desktop machine – used to be Christine’s Windows XP box (before...
View ArticleGutsy Gibbon Initial Setup
So, Gutsy Gibbon has arrived (It’s an operating system for those of you who don’t follow ubuntu – and it’s a "computer thingie" for the rest of you), and I’m going through the ritual initial setup...
View ArticleUbuntu Gutsy Gibbon As A Smalltime DNS
I have several domains – kimballlarsen.com, hugegrocerysavings.com, twigglesgiggles.com, ourpioneerhistory.com – for which I host DNS. Until recently, this has all been done via my ISP’s hosting...
View Articlefind + rm = disaster
Some time ago I wanted to to detach a working copy of some code I have been working on for several years so I could import it into a new repository on a different server. I did something similar to...
View Article1234567890 Seconds Since The Unix Epoch
mysql> select unix_timestamp() from dual; +------------------+ | unix_timestamp() | +------------------+ | 1234567890 | +------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
View ArticleHave I Been Rooted?
Last night one of the servers at work began to act a little wonky and sent me some email to let me know it was not feeling well. I logged in and quickly discovered that some social misfit was trying to...
View Articlelibstdc++.so.5, How We Miss Thee
I have a bit of old code that I wrote in RealBasic a few years back which performs a very critical function for our business at work. This particular chunk of code has been running without incident...
View ArticleClear Internet – A Review
Clear Internet service makes a lot of promises, but fails miserably in one VERY important way.
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