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OpenBSD 4.6 up to errata 10 is made

admin — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:09:04 +0000

http://www.allyourbasearebelongto.us/links.php

I've updated OpenBSD to errata no. 10.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Haiku-os alpha1

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:03:11 +0000

Screenshot of my haiku-os alpha1 install running under virtualbox on Macbook Pro.

Woohoo.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

email attachments from the command line

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:09:06 +0000

Handy dandy tip and something I'm posting because I routinely forget how to do - email yourself an attachment.

If you have a file you want to send (any file binary or otherwise) you just use the uuencode command.

uuencode filename1 filename2 | mail -s subject your@address

where filename1 is the name of a local file, and filename2 is the name you want to give to the attachment (these can be the same).

If you are running a script and want to send the output of the script you'd do that like so:

./scripts.sh | uuencode filename.txt | mail -s subject your@address

This was tested on OpenBSD, MacOS X, and CentOS. Though on CentOS I had to install the sharutils package in order to get uuencode.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Slashdot (useful) stupid unix tricks #5 - job control

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:50:15 +0000

Now, if you are unfamiliar with ctrl-z bg/fg etc.. you need to learn those. but the most interesting thing I learned was about the disown command.

 
linkslice-4:~ Bryan$ /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb &
linkslice-4:~ Bryan$ disown %%
linkslice-4:~ Bryan$ exit

Then in another shell note that it's still running.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Space Rogue on Hackers

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:38:07 +0000

http://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=191

Interesting take on the old L0pht, symantec etc from one of the grand-daddies of the 90's era.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

b2evolution 3.1.0 beta release

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:29:19 +0000

I've updated this blog to 3.1.0 beta of b2evolution. Since it's not a serious site with no community whatsoever (does anyone actually repeat visit?) I figured what the hey? Let me know if you see problems.

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Haiku OS running under VirtualBox and Mac OS X

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:36:31 +0000

http://haiku-os.org

You're an old BeOS user who's been waiting patiently for Haiku to finish up. In the meantime you want to check out what they've been up to. Just one problem, you're on a Mac and don't want to buy vmware just to try it out.

First head to the virtual box website and install virtualbox.
Next head over to The Haiku website and go into the downloads section. You will want to download the latest Raw image.
Once the image is downloaded and unzipped you will want to open your terminal and run the following commands (tweak for your environment).

$ cd /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS

$./VBoxManage convertdd ~/Desktop/haiku-alpha.image ~/Library/VirtualBox/HardDisks/haiku.vdi

You can now add the converted disk image into VirtualBox and boot Haiku.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

HP the greenest company evar!!!oneone

admin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:02:32 +0000

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/hp_packaging/

HP does a stellar job of saving the planet. I didn't think anyone was worse than Dell but there's the proof.

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