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Zimbra Mail
This app just really frustrates me…I’m not able to track a single message through the system as I could with cyrus/imap…Extremely frustrating..
Screen
As a sysadmin I have lots of terminal sessions open simply because it’s usually easier for me to type in few commands as opposed to clicking around the gui. To help with this I use GNU’s Screen command. It allows you to open up a terminal and then detach that window and do that as many times as you like.
It does get rather confusing sometimes trying to remember what screen session is for what. This is what you see with multiple sessions:
<code>
There are screens on:
15767.pts-0.voodoo (Detached)
15809.pts-0.voodoo (Detached)<code>
Now I have no idea what is in either of those with that name. And to reattach those screen would require me typing ’screen -r 15767.pts-0.voodoo’. That’s too many keystrokes for my liking ;-). Luckly screen has some options that can help you identify what is on each screen. Using the command ’screen -S server1′. So instead of the output above you’d see:
<code>
There are screens on:
15922.server1 (Detached)
15964.server2 (Detached)
</code>Now all I have to type to reattach is ’screen -r server1′. Now that’s still a bit too much so I’m going to add an alias to my .bashrc file to make it a bit shorter..
<code>
alias jscreen=’screen -S $1′
</code>After I run ’source ~/.bashrc’ and then jscreen will be available. All I have to is type ‘jscreen server3′ and my server3 session is created.
Problem with rm command
So in trying to clear out a *large* number of emails (>200k) from one our shared folders here at work I ran into the following issue:
[jwalters@helmsdeep]~/ rm -f 9*
-bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
To get around the buffer limitation I ran the following:
find . -name '9*' | xargs rm -f
Since raw emails are just a string of numbers I had to run that on all the strings replacing 9 with other numbers. Here is a better explanation of the limitation. Not really related to rm but to the kernel itself. Fairly technical read so beware ;-).
Cupcake
Wow..That’s just all I can say..A user who I helped over a year ago just stopped by my desk and gave me a handwritten thank you card and a cupcake for fixing her computer her first day at Red Hat *over* a year ago!
This is me speechless…
Free and Open Java
Even though I’m not a fan of Jave, this makes me proud to work at Red Hat. Congrats to all involved in making this happen!
Rich Sharples’ Blog » Blog Archive » Java is finally Free and Open
As of writing, Fedora 9 is the only operating system to include a free and open Java SE 6 implementation that has passed the Java TCK. All of the code that makes this possible has been made available to the IcedTea project so everyone can benefit from the work.
MP3 Addiction?
Amazon makes it waaaay to easy to download music…I think I’m hooked.
Music Downloads for Linux
Finally!!!! For those of you who use Linux AmazonMP3 is the way to go for pay downloads. There is no DRM and the rips are a very high quality (256k). I’ve been using AmazonMP3 for a few days now and they have a really good selection of music from current artists to oldies…So far I’ve purchased the new R.E.M album and an album by Warren G which I used to listen to in the tape deck of my first truck ;-).
The Fedora 8 RPM that AmazonMP3 provides for their downloader works perfectly with no tweaking. Just install it and go. The downloader is only needed if you buy entire albums. For single songs you can buy and download with your browser’s download manager.
Two thumbs up Amazon! Thank you very much!
Suckage
So today Kate and I found out that Merlin has Hip Dysplasia . He’s not even two years old yet. And from what I’ve read dogs who develop it this early means they’ve been living with the chronic pain for a lot longer than the symptoms have been showing. I feel really bad that he’s been having to deal with this for so long….To say that I’m bummed really doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Setup Your Own Damn Mail Filters
Managment:We want all new users to have two default filters setup when they start..This seems to be a pain point for new hires.
Me:Really..There is a document that the Help Desk wrote on how to setup those filters..They even go over in the new hire orientation.
Managment:That’s all well and good but we don’t think that users should be burdened with having to create that.
Me:…
Me:But they are going to have to create more than two filters when they start..Shouldn’t they just learn the process and then create their own?
Management: No..They can just the others once they’re settled.
Me:*bangs head on desk*PITA POS Dell Server
So I’ve been dealing with one of our ancient Dell 4300 servers. This thing is a beast, weighs in ~70lbs and it only has two 400Mhz Pentium3 processors in it. So it’s been hanging on boot up complaining about firmware being out of date. I was unable to get into the bios, or the utility module since it would just hang there.
The solution: unplug the mouse…:sigh:
Unplugging the mouse eliminated the firmware error messages and the damn thing booted right up…Really…The mouse…:shakes head and goes back to work:
Punctuation in email???????
I wonder why people feel the need to put an inordinate amount of punctuation in emails?????????? In my job people send in request for help………I guess they think that putting more than one question mark or exclamation mark will get their point across more clearly………Personally I hate seeing tons of punctuation in an email……It really gets under my skin!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway…….Glad to get that off my chest!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyone else feel the same way?????????????
Summing it all up
Never Hunger
Never Prosper
I Have Fallen Prey to Failure
Struggle Within
Triggered Again
Now the Candle Burns at Both EndsTwisting under Schizophrenia
Falling Deep into DementiaOld Habits Reappear
Fighting the Fear of Fear
Growing Conspiracy
Everyone’s after Me
Frayed Ends of Sanity
Hear Them Calling
Hear Them Calling MeBirth of Terror
Death of Much More
I’m the Slave of Fear, my Captor
Never Warnings
Spreading its Wings
As I Wait for the Horror She Brings
Loss of Interest, question, wonder
Waves of Fear They Pull Me underOld Habits Reappear
Fighting the Fear of Fear
Growing Conspiracy
Everyone’s after Me
Frayed Ends of Sanity
Hear Them Calling
Hear Them Calling MeInto Ruin
I Am Sinking
Hostage of this Nameless Feeling
Hell Is Set Free
Flooded I’ll Be
Feel the Undertow Inside MeHeight, hell, time, haste, terror, tension
Life, death, want, waste, mass DepressionOld Habits Reappear
Fighting the Fear of Fear
Growing Conspiracy
Myself is after Me
Frayed Ends of Sanity
Hear Them Calling
Frayed Ends of Sanity
Hear Them Calling
Hear Them Calling MeGreat Week
Not even 10am on a Monday and I’m already in a foul mood…Should be a good week…
Weird laptop issue
I’ve been using Fedora 9 since the Beta release came out a month or so ago with few problems…I did a fresh install when the Preview release came out last week. I love it! Only a few small, annoying issues so far.
I was having wireless issues but only at home…That seems to be due to a weird WEP issue and is solved by switching to WPA which I should have done a while ago. Now for the other weird issue…I have my /home, / , and swap encrypted using LUKS. Everything has been fine since the Preview re-install until I got home today..My normal procedure is typing 3 passphrases to decrypt everything when the laptop boots up..
When I got home my swap passphrase wasn’t working…I couldn’t change the passphrase since it seemed to not have a passphrase set…So here’s what I did:
This reformatted the swap partition. I wasn’t worried about data since it’s just swap.
WARNING!
========
This will overwrite data on /dev/sda2 irrevocably.Are you sure? (Type uppercase yes): YES
Enter LUKS passphrase:
Verify passphrase:
Command successful.
Now to turn it back into swap
[root@voodoo ~]# mkswap /dev/sda2
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 2146791 kB
no label, UUID=ce65e513-a0b8-3345-a834-a8989a57ac04
And finally turn swap on
swapon /dev/sda2
Really strange that it all of the sudden lost the passphrase…
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Through the ashes of disappointment, rises the fire of determination.
-me April-2008
