Marshall's Weblog

I just found out that the The Unix Haters Handbook is available free for download. It is a compilation of material from users of Unix systems who were frustrated with the way Unix worked.

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I went and saw V for Vandetta on Saturday. It reminded me a lot of 1984, which is still probably the most engrossing and grimm book I have ever read. Overall, the story was great, the cinematography was amazing, and the acting was adequate.
Sticking with the Alan Moore theme (the original creator of V), [...]

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You never know when you will need to make your sys-admin laugh.

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Oops, looks like I never posted this…
I did this on my Linux box a while back and could not figure out how to unset it months later when I actually wanted to delete the file.

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Here is a funny video about the WOW effect. (May not be work safe, you definately need to hear the sound)
The neat thing about the video is that it runs on Flumotion’s streaming server ans is viewable through a java applet in your web browser (unless you are using lynx).

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The 2004 POV-Ray Competition results are up, complete with the source for the renderings.

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Sometimes it is handy to have a list of files which contain a certain string (or a regex). You can combine grep and awk in the following manner:
grep -H “string to search for” *.txt | awk -F: ‘{ print $1 }’
The -H option in grep makes it display the file name before the text that [...]

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