• Archive for June, 2008

    Zimbra Mail

    Jake6/24/2008

    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..

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    Screen

    Jake

    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.

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    Problem with rm command

    Jake6/20/2008

    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 ;-).

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    Cupcake

    Jake

    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…

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    Free and Open Java

    Jake6/19/2008

    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.

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    MP3 Addiction?

    Jake

    Amazon makes it waaaay to easy to download music…I think I’m hooked.

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    Music Downloads for Linux

    Jake6/10/2008

    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! :-)

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    Suckage

    Jake6/3/2008

    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.

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