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Not Much Here
I’ve started a new blog over at http://cubezombie.org so there may not be many new posts here.
Poison Ivy
So my 31st year is not off to a very good start…First strep throat and now I find out that I’ve developed an allergy to poison ivy…Awesome…I was exposed to it numerous times when I was in the Army with no effects…Now my arms and legs are covered..So here I sit with Calamine lotion but still itching..:-(
Wonderful Birthday
So I hit the big 31 on Sunday. Thanks to everyone who sent me goodies and a big thank you to Kate for making this another good birthday and one to remember :-). Thank you so much baby..I love you more and more every day :-*
Birthday
So I have one of these coming up on the 31st of this month..Just so happens to be my 31st birtday as well. I figured that I would drop hints so people will buy me something from my Amazon wishlist
Here is the link:New Blog
So I’ve got another blog over at Kickstands Up. I’m currently planning a 2 week motorcycle camping trip in Oct2008. As it stands right now I’ll be going through South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, and back to North Carolina. Haven’t figured out the total milage and some routes are still in question but I’m figuring ~300-350 miles a day or 8 hours whichever comes first.
Head on over and keep up with my follies…errr adventures
Rough Weekend
So Friday really turned out to not be my day. I woke up around 3am and could feel my throat was very sore and it really hurt to swallow. I got up and got something to drink and headed back to bed hoping it was just dry and would be better when I went to work.
I woke up a bit early and hoped into the shower still feeling the sore throat and now a touch of nausea..I head into work and the longer I was at work the worse I felt. It peaked around noon and I felt like I needed to go home. I wasn’t able to think about food or even water without getting sick to my stomach again. I im’d Kate and told her I was probably going to be heading home since I wasn’t feeling well but I was going to try and stick out the day.
MySQL Training
This is just for my notes from the MySQL training:
<b>Prompt command:</b>
<code>
prompt \u@\h: [\d]\>
</code>
<b>Replication stuff:</b>
<code>
change master to master_host=’10.11.231.2′, master_user=’slave’, master_password=’cangetin’, master_port=3306, master_log_file=’mysql-bin.000009′, master_log_pos=106;
</code>
Loud Keyboards
Loud, mechanical keyboards with their god awful clacking keys should be outlawed and anyone found to be using one should be beaten accordingly…
That is all..Move along…
Zimbra Mail
This app just really frustrates me…I’m not able to track a single message through the system as I could with cyrus/imap…Extremely frustrating..
Screen
As a sysadmin I have lots of terminal sessions open simply because it’s usually easier for me to type in few commands as opposed to clicking around the gui. To help with this I use GNU’s Screen command. It allows you to open up a terminal and then detach that window and do that as many times as you like.
It does get rather confusing sometimes trying to remember what screen session is for what. This is what you see with multiple sessions:
<code>
There are screens on:
15767.pts-0.voodoo (Detached)
15809.pts-0.voodoo (Detached)<code>
Now I have no idea what is in either of those with that name. And to reattach those screen would require me typing ’screen -r 15767.pts-0.voodoo’. That’s too many keystrokes for my liking ;-). Luckly screen has some options that can help you identify what is on each screen. Using the command ’screen -S server1′. So instead of the output above you’d see:
<code>
There are screens on:
15922.server1 (Detached)
15964.server2 (Detached)
</code>Now all I have to type to reattach is ’screen -r server1′. Now that’s still a bit too much so I’m going to add an alias to my .bashrc file to make it a bit shorter..
<code>
alias jscreen=’screen -S $1′
</code>After I run ’source ~/.bashrc’ and then jscreen will be available. All I have to is type ‘jscreen server3′ and my server3 session is created.
Problem with rm command
So in trying to clear out a *large* number of emails (>200k) from one our shared folders here at work I ran into the following issue:
[jwalters@helmsdeep]~/ rm -f 9*
-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
To get around the buffer limitation I ran the following:
find . -name '9*' | xargs rm -f
Since raw emails are just a string of numbers I had to run that on all the strings replacing 9 with other numbers. Here is a better explanation of the limitation. Not really related to rm but to the kernel itself. Fairly technical read so beware ;-).
Cupcake
Wow..That’s just all I can say..A user who I helped over a year ago just stopped by my desk and gave me a handwritten thank you card and a cupcake for fixing her computer her first day at Red Hat *over* a year ago!
This is me speechless…
Free and Open Java
Even though I’m not a fan of Jave, this makes me proud to work at Red Hat. Congrats to all involved in making this happen!
Rich Sharples’ Blog » Blog Archive » Java is finally Free and Open
As of writing, Fedora 9 is the only operating system to include a free and open Java SE 6 implementation that has passed the Java TCK. All of the code that makes this possible has been made available to the IcedTea project so everyone can benefit from the work.
MP3 Addiction?
Amazon makes it waaaay to easy to download music…I think I’m hooked.
Music Downloads for Linux
Finally!!!! For those of you who use Linux AmazonMP3 is the way to go for pay downloads. There is no DRM and the rips are a very high quality (256k). I’ve been using AmazonMP3 for a few days now and they have a really good selection of music from current artists to oldies…So far I’ve purchased the new R.E.M album and an album by Warren G which I used to listen to in the tape deck of my first truck ;-).
The Fedora 8 RPM that AmazonMP3 provides for their downloader works perfectly with no tweaking. Just install it and go. The downloader is only needed if you buy entire albums. For single songs you can buy and download with your browser’s download manager.
Two thumbs up Amazon! Thank you very much!
