andrew's jots


Heh there were enough posts in Turkish on the explore#all page that Chrome asked to translate the page.
http://sjot.it/u5E1cK I love it when people dig in to things like this
http://sjot.it/sUjIUi Helpful page for using mdadm to interrogate your raid members, aka when you bust up your Raid 0 in Amazon and never set up the config for returning it to working order.
http://sjot.it/rOsjQT Because knowing how to log user-data output in EC2 is important or something
Via Twitter: @climagic: awk and sed are like the fuck and shit of the "unix language". Very powerful and can be used nearly anywhere in a sentence.
Via Twitter: @freebsdgirl: TIL "Ruby is just hipster perl."
Via Twitter: @kizz_my_anthia Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
Need to massage some inconsistent data for analysis? Check out Google Refine. http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
I have a days worth of ping data on 1 second intervals. Suggestions on the best way to extract and display useful data from this?
http://sjot.it/rjQ8pt Did you know that Amazon lets you generate a CSV report of your order history? That said, I need to get reimbursed for buying tech books.
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http://imgur.com/d89DE Im hoping the unknown binding is jewels and dinosaur bones.
If you want to try out the new Gmail skin, check Gear > Mail Settings > Themes and select 'Preview'
http://sjot.it/w0K5A1 Because sometimes I just want to send an SMS from the command line, dammit.
Using 'which' to check if sendmail is installed. Needed to check out the options so I typed `man which`. I lol'd.
Aaaand @noah got me to sign up for full time crossfit. The cult continues...
http://sjot.it/toKjjg Good Tutorial on using iperf. Pretty handy tool, may need to keep this one handy for troubleshooting.
http://sjot.it/sovgii So sad that most all linux benchmarking tools have sites that look to be from around 1998. Really makes you question if they are being maintained.
http://sjot.it/w2XDGF Rofl, Study finds that perl is no easier for novices to learn than a language with random syntax
All I have to say, is fuck Oracle. It has decided that it is not in the mood to install on RHEL 5 and flunks all prerequisite checks.
http://sjot.it/qyc0sX Now this, is awesome. From HN: Using the Wide Angle viewing properties of LCDs to display extra information.