Hmmm… you would think the empty set resulting from the intersection of the product title and product features would have been a clue that something was awry.

If you want to run sudo from any part of a cron job make sure you comment out the “Defaults requiretty” from /etc/sudoers. Bit me twice now – hopefully I’ll remember next time.
Ed: Apologies to those who have read this before but I had to restore from backup and my last post wasn’t in that [...]

In my last post I described a VB Script for moving IMAP email from my inbox to an archive folder. As an interesting Apples to Oranges (or Apple to Microsoft?) comparison here is the Apple Script I use with Entourage to perform the same task. I will post two versions: one that performs [...]

Been meaning to post this quickie for awhile. Took me a good bit of searching and tweaking but I’ve been using this macro for about two months to move email in my IMAP account in Outlook (2007) to my archive folder. Then I bound it to a hotkey combo by adding it to [...]

A few things all of us are probably interested in:

SSD Write Amplification:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2329594,00.asp

Journaling and write performance in ext4:

http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/01/ssds-journaling-and-noatimerelatime/

The bottom-line as far as wear and tear: vfat is basically the same as a journaled FS from a wear-leveling standpoint, both are worst case. Thankfully vfat, being the worst case, forced the manufacturers to deal with the [...]

The past few days people in Linux blogosphere have been bringing back up the noatime/nodiratime mount options. These options disable the updating of file and directory access times. On many standard systems when you read file a “last read,” or access time, timestamp is written to disk. Disabling the writing of access times [...]

My favorite BASH shell completion of all time is hostname completion for all of my favorite commands:
SSH_COMPLETE=( $(cat ~/.ssh/known_hosts | \
cut -f 1 -d ‘ ‘ | \
[...]

I was trying to connect to RHN from Yum/up2date in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. I kept getting fatal invalid SSL cert errors. The strange part – out of all of the machines I tested it was only occuring on a single RHEL 5 laptop. The really strange part – it [...]

Ran into a problem with Exchange. I created a server-side rule to place spam messages in a folder that didn’t exist. All spam was instead going to the root folder, the folder above my inbox. Well if you use Entourage to access Exchange you will not be able to access this folder. [...]

It’s been three years since we upgraded the hardware that hosts our various sites. I contacted my provider (Crucial Paradigm) and got some competitive offers. Stefan, my friend in Berlin that I split the server with, and I agreed on the following specs:

Athlon 64 x2 4000 (2 cores @ 2.1GHz, 512K L2 each)
4GB RAM, [...]