An interesting snippet for those who wonder about the resilience of Linux in Enterprise.
My personal webserver (the big one, not the POS 2000 running this site) has now been up for 422 days with reboot or (internal) downtime!
That’s pretty impressive stuff - you show me a Windows box that’s been up for as long serving [...]
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14 months and counting
Everyone should be on Twitter
Ahaha! Techy evangelism abounds at XSet this afternoon. Starting with one of the most accessible nerd tools on the interwebs. For those who don’t know what Twitter is I’ll provide a brief overview:
Imagine a system whereby you could automatically update your friends as to your current activity, thoughts, new blog posts, requests for help [...]
Bash Mnemonics
Whilst doing my daily wander around various Linux servers I have a couple of handy memory joggers for commanly used commands:
List all directory contents with human readable file sizes:
ls -hal
HAL - the all seeing slightly homicidal computer from 2001 is a great reminder for this dir listing command
Show all processes in a tree structure with [...]
The right tools for the job
I have a folder on my Bookmarks bar under Firefox called Porn ..
More interestingly to most I also have a folder called Tools! The idea being that the bookmarks bar is home to links I use daily and the Tools! folder specifically contains sites that are genuinely useful in my day to day work. And [...]
And we’re back
After a power surge knocked out the router and the bridge and the internet and the server and generally everything!
I say knocked out - rather the router I currently use (to great effect I might add) has a sensitivity to power outages - namely flip the switch a couple of times and it resets to [...]
