Fancy colors break grep
When I first saw the new fancy colors for the grep command in Linux in Fedora 15 I was happy to see they added colorizing for
06
Jan
WHY IS OUR WEBAPP SO SLOW? SSL Client certs and JBoss 4.2.3
Today we had a problem after enabling client certificate authentication in JBoss 4.2.3. At first, I googled the problem and
14
Dec
A story about a homeless Marine, his wife, and 4 year old
This didn’t happen to me personally, it was story I read from a reddit post. I can’t account for it’s
30
Nov
A Facebook change to make it harder to post notes from WordPress
Today I noticed a message on my Facebook page. I’ve been using Facebook since the early days of college beta, and the
10
Nov
Fedora 16 upgrade – ouch
I’m always pretty excited about a new Fedora release. Yesterday, Fedora 16 was released, and of course I decided to go
09
Nov
I’m done with cars, they are just too complicated. (satire of ZDNet’s “Done with Linux, going back to Windows”)
Thanks to Michael Hall, who wrote a very funny article titled “If Linux was a car (Hater’s edition)” as a
28
Oct
Maximo iP-HS3 breaks again
Back in June I had a problem with my Maximo headset I purchased in January (see here). It seems these things have a 5-6 month
27
Oct
Bash script to wait for a file to become unchanged after x seconds
Use case: You’re writing a shell script to stop/start a system service, but only want to do so when there is no
27
Oct
TIL – Linux – getting around “operation not permitted”
Today we had a strange corrupted file end up on one of our backup servers, and was not allowing any kind of chown or rm
19
Oct
RIP Dennis Ritchie – co-creator of Unix and C
“UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.” – Dennis Ritchie Dennis Ritchie
13
Oct
