6 days ago
joshua : scie.nti.st » GNU screen with vertical split support
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14 days ago
deusx : Netcat Tar Pipe - "So you have gigs of data to transfer between two machines over ethernet. A nice quick and dirty method is to use netcat and tar. This is by no means secure, but if you haven't got the time or desire to setup NFS, FTPd, Samba. Or wait hours for
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2 month ago
deusx : irc it — tools/irc — suckless.org - "ii is a minimalist FIFO and filesystem-based IRC client. It creates an irc directory tree with server, channel and nick name directories. In every directory a FIFO in file and a normal out file is created."
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3 month ago
deusx : Synscan - Programs - pipebench - "Measures the speed of a pipe, by sitting in the middle passing the data along to the next process."
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5 month ago
deusx : Create RSS feeds from system log files | Mac Geekery - "With the advent of RSS readers that can use so-called “local feeds” for various reasons, it was inevitable that some code monkey would convert his 250K system.log file to RSS."
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5 month ago
deusx : YTMND - Jurassic Park Unix System - "It's a Unix System. I know this."
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5 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : bash read command - bash read command: "20+ years later the Unix shell is still the fastest way to get work done on a bunch of files." You learn a new trick every day, I tell ya...
deusx : Nelson's Weblog: tech / bash-read-command - "The read command in bash is a magic builtin."
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6 month ago
joshua : dvtm || dynamic virtual terminal manager - like screen but cooler?
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deusx : Unix Pipefitter, Jobs at Akoha, Jobs in Montreal - "The Internet is not a truck. It’s a complex network of arcane software, expensive hardware, and maximum-security server closets disguised as ordinary cloakrooms."
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joshua : puppet - tool for administrating sysadmin tasks
Jeremy Zawodny : puppet - puppet: "Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks."
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nelson : $100M to SCO - Private capital bails out SCO; some new IP play?
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7 month ago
nelson : pv: Pipe Viewer - clever hack; works like "cat" on a unix command line, but shows progress of data on the way
deusx : ivarch.com: Pipe Viewer - "pv - Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline."
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9 month ago
gleuschk : :: Shell-Shocked :: Windows Symbolic and Hard Links - might be a solution to FolderShare's retrictions. Pretty roundabout, tho.
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9 month ago
gleuschk : How can I find the size of files and directories on UNIX? - du -sk name. can't tell you how many times I've wanted to know this
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11 month ago
joshua : automatically reconnect to screen
Matthew M. Boedicker : automatically reattach to screen sessions - (via del.icio.us/joshua) [via]
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13 month ago
nelson : Riyadh solar time - Python timezone database gave up trying to cope with a weird time zone definition tried in Saudi Arabia for three years
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13 month ago
deusx : Piping Vim Buffer Through Unix Filters: ! and !! Commands - "VI takes this same paradigm of pipes and filters and simply wraps it in a editor user interface in which the pipe is applied to editing buffer both as a source and as a destination."
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13 month ago
joshua : BackSpace and Delete Configuration for Linux - it's 2007. why can't i have the delete key work reliably? this is why we don't have jetpacks.
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16 month ago
nelson : Always mount a scratch monkey - The story behind the sysadmin wisdom
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16 month ago
nelson : Scratch monkey #2 - An alternate version of the story. I know Laura Creighton, I should ask her.
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19 month ago
cameron : xkcd gets really, really sad - Something about nerds breaking up makes me really depressed. Oh, and unix does that too.
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19 month ago
joshua : isightcapture - commandline to capture from an isight
jimray : Capture iSight pics from the command line - Wicked
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23 month ago
43folders : Ideas For Dozens: learns_to use Expect for Easy Automation - "Expect scripts allow you to start up a program and then have the computer act [to] use it in your stead. "
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23 month ago
deusx : Roll your own servers with Netcat - Lifehacker - "Unix command-line utility netcat gets called the "network swiss army knife" with good reason."
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