Copy a file with progress in Linux
You’ll need the “pv” program, which will monitor status through a pipe. On my Fedora box at work this was
29
Feb
Coming to you live from moldvan.com … also, WTFPL
Well, sort of live anyway. I purchased moldvan.com to make my e-mail addresses shorter and set up the forwards in Sendmail,
21
Feb
TPS reports, HR threats, and stifling productivity: an open letter to small businesses
Those who have experienced the growing pains of a small company know how it can all go wrong. When an organization grows,
24
Jan
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
Uh oh – Pidgin stores passwords in plain text in accounts.xml
Funny thing we found out at work today: Pidgin, which is a multi-protocol chat client I’ve been using for years and
26
Jul
Travel disaster
I had this post all written up and lost it all by absent mindedly upgrading WordPress at the same time. Which, on a side
21
Aug
Tobacco will kill you!
Ha. Chose to not put the mother-effer part in the title; my mother reads this! lol.
14
Jul
fun with linux; lol
sudo yum -y install beep while(true); do RAND=`od -An -N1 -i /dev/random`; sudo beep -f${RAND}; done &
11
May
25 random things about me.
I give in, since two of my friends requested it. A MySpace-y Facebook survey type thing. But since I’m such a geek,
31
Jan
