Category: computing
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Translating Filenames — Bash Voodoo Style #linux
This is an example of using Bash to convert a crazy apache log and translating the filename into an IIS log pattern: d=`date +%Y%m%d` find k -type f \ | while read filename do nextfile=”${filename/k\/done?0.www\./k2/www-Server_T${d}_}.log” echo “$nextfile” cat $filename | $translate > “$nextfile” done I love how I can refer to a shell variable ($d)…
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Facebook Profile Data that Anyone Can See
Here is a site that allows you to browse your Facebook Profile data as if you were a 3rd party. I heard about this Zesty.ca page from TWiG episode 40. This Facebook data would be provided using their Graph API. A tip from TWiG episode 41 mentioned is how students have started using dummy data…
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Last happy thots on LinuxFest Northwest 2010 #lfnw
As always, I completely enjoyed meeting all the new and returning people at LinuxFest Northwest. I was especially proud to finally shake Brian Aker’s hand and thank him for his work on memcached and how inspired I was about the ideas behind Gearman. Gearman is a job-coalescing processing protocol that can solve map-reduce problems. Please…
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Remember “In the Trenches”? That’s How I Learned of LOPSA #lfnw
I chatted with a few of the guys at the LOPSA booth and mentioned that I first learned about LOPSA by listening to Kevin Devin’s In the Trenches podcast. This Friends In Tech show was insightful, informative and inspiring in that it presented intelligent and professional discussion about the profession of system administration, not merely…
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Lightfoot Cycles: Smoothie
At LinuxFest Northwest I met an avid bicyclist: Victor Odlivak. He pointed out a northwest recumbent bicycle manufacturer named Lightfoot Cycles. Victor sent me a link to their Smoothie model. I am impressed by the features on this recumbent–it has a BionX power assist and a bench seat. This would appeal to riders that have…
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LinuxFest Northwest (Bellingham Herald)
Always great to see the local paper write a few inches about LinuxFest Northwest. Funny ’bout how both “Microsoft Windows” and “Vista” get mentioned in such a short article.
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Tail the Latest Log File
I’m grateful for Cygwin. I wouldn’t know how to do this in cmd–though I should probably learn how to do it in PoSH. find LogFiles/W3SVC1 -type f | xargs ls -1tr | tail -n1 | xargs tail -F I need to make it an alias now….
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Longest MySQL Replication Run? #lfnw #mysql
I’ve heard of people replicating MySQL from coast to coast. I’d love to hear if anyone attending @lfnw has longer replication runs. Happy to share some examples at my talk on Sat. http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/sessions/mysql-performance-and-availability
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LinuxFest Northwest 2010: Apache Rewrites
Apache Rewrites — for Ninjas! This session is an overview of using Apache mod_rewrite, driven mostly by your interests and questions. Your Questions, Your Interests? The simple difference between rewrites and redirects. You can specify an redirection in a few ways, and they don’t need to be RewriteRules. You can use an Alias directive to…
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LinuxFest Northwest 2010: MySQL Buffet
MySQL Buffet This session covers topics in MySQL high availability and performance, centered mostly on your interests and questions. Your Questions? Your Interests? MySQL is a large topic and we can do a thumbnail overview followed by specific topics you’re interested in. I’ve listed the topics below in what I believe are the most important…
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