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Monthly Archives: June 2005
FC4 and CD verification
For the last several versions the Fedora Core (and previously RedHat) distribution has had the ability to verify that the downloaded CD images were successfully transfered to the newly burned discs. For people who download the images and create CDs … Continue reading
Graduation
Last Thursday was convocation (graduation) day at UWO. This year convocation turned out to be quite a media event due to the presence of Dr. Henry Morgentaler. London Free Press article Article from UWO’s website Text of Dr. Morgentaler’s speach … Continue reading
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Todays bash lesson
Today I noticed that a bash script I created a couple of weeks ago to calculate some log file statistics was no longer working properly. The culprit was the following line: REGEX=`printf “^%s %i %.2i:%.2i\n” ${MONTH} ${DAY} ${HOUR} ${TMP_MIN}` This … Continue reading
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Vim tips for DOS text files
DOS (Windows) uses CR-LF to mark the end of lines in text files. Unix just uses LF. Wikipedia has a long article on these differences if you are interested. Viewed in older versions of vim, DOS text files had a … Continue reading
IPv6 address usage
I stumbled upon a fabulous article that discusses address utilization in IPv4 and IPv6. Two aspects of this article struck me most: wrapping your head around really big numbers is hard and it is sad to see that some of … Continue reading
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Hardware tips from a kernel hacker
Dave Jones, a RedHet kernel guy, has put together a list of hardware tips. This could be useful for anyone who has to deal with potentially flakey hardware. http://www.livejournal.com/users/kernelslacker/16552.html