I love xkcd and its geeky geeky ways. It often captures things I’ve lived and/or seen. Today’s is one I have lived and seen lived.
This reminds me of a post on usenet my friend Anne made in 1998. To quote:
So I am left not bitter just tired of this whole meeting people, emotional ties, finding [...]
Shutdown
<install new/replacement disk>
fdisk
mkswap
umount /boot
dd
e2fsck && resize2fs
mount -o remount,ro /
dd
e2fsck && resize2fs
mount -o remount,rw /
pvcreate
vgextend
pvmove (wait a long long long time for 174 GB, especially with disk read errors, to move)
vgreduce
shutdown
remove old and busted, put new hotness in as primary disk
boot into rescue disk
mount / /usr
grub-install /dev/hda1
ms-sys -m /dev/hda
vi /etc/fstab
shutdown -r now
Party like its 1999 or, [...]
Previously I put out an early version of my ruby based command line oriented tivo download script.
I’ve had a patch from MARK NOTARUS to make the menu have some more options and I’m using Console::ProgressBar from facets now.
It works well enough for my needs, but let me know if you hit any roadblocks. Just [...]
We’ve replaced our firewall with DD-WRT on Linksys crystals. Let’s see if anyone notices…
I’ve been working on a command-line oriented TiVo2Go downloader so I can automate getting items off my tivo, or at least do it when I’m on the road via ssh (and then kick off that other script…) I’ve written a quick and dirty TiVo library, and a sample script called TiVo2Disk which uses the library.
On [...]
I’ve been investigating cmake at work as a better build system for our cross platform C based projects. I’m thinking about starting up a third one, so now is the prefect time to really go after this as for one project we have a build system per platform and on the other we have [...]
For every stupid hard coded Steve Jobism in OS X1, there’s some really awesome unix extentions I’d like to see elsewhere. The big one for me today has to do with DNS handling.
I’ve been playing with OpenVPN to get access to my network at home. Since I have a MacBook Pro from work, that’s [...]
Every once in awhile I come across a feature of a piece of software, generally, a small utility that I hadn’t known about and that shows immediate value. Today Jon showed me the –color flag for GNU grep. It uses color to highlight the term you were searching for in the line returned. For example:
# grep [...]
I often like to print out many web pages to read on the train. To not waste paper I like to print them 2 up and double sided. If the printer supports it, I also like to staple the pages. On Linux, I use Firefox to print to postscript, then used a2ps to have [...]
Regular backups are your friend. Also, if you can’t normally back something up (i.e. data in open ldap’s backend) do a regular dump and back that up.
rsync/unison/scp data off your co-loc to a local machine, and back it up again, just for good measure.
The new drive is the drive most likely to die first.
Losing [...]
