Archive for the “Linux” category

Unix Haters Handbook

by Marshall on March 27, 2006

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.

V for Very Entertaining

by Marshall on March 26, 2006

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 (…)

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System Administrators Song

by Marshall on January 3, 2006

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

Immutable Files in Linux

by Marshall on November 13, 2005

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.

World of Warcraft

by Marshall on June 13, 2005

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 (…)

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2004 POV-Ray Competition

by Marshall on May 31, 2005

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

Searching in Files Using awk and grep

by Marshall on May 18, 2005

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 (…)

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