http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/ 2012-02-09T23:28:38+01:00 http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/ http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/lib/tpl/rednight1/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-11-22T17:30:49+01:00 andreas http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/blog:index ---------- SysAdmin'ish Blog Archive || Tag cloud || RSS Feeds: Blog, Comments Äpfel und Birnen " Ein User kommt zum Sysadmin und fragt nach Obst. Der Sysadmin sagt, wir haben Äpfel und Birnen, alles andere seien Granaten. Der User antwortet, sie wolle Granatäpfel. So weit so gut, jeder Sysadmin kennt das zur Genüge. Nach einem weiteren erfolglosen Erklärungsversuch nimmt der Sysadmin einen roten Apfel, spickt ihn mit Rosinen und nennt ihn Granatapfel. Der User ist vorerst zufr… text/html 2011-11-22T17:16:10+01:00 andreas http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/blog:111122_granatapfel_user " Ein User kommt zum Sysadmin und fragt nach Obst. Der Sysadmin sagt, wir haben Äpfel und Birnen, alles andere seien Granaten. Der User antwortet, sie wolle Granatäpfel. So weit so gut, jeder Sysadmin kennt das zur Genüge. Nach einem weiteren erfolglosen Erklärungsversuch nimmt der Sysadmin einen roten Apfel, spickt ihn mit Rosinen und nennt ihn Granatapfel. Der User ist vorerst zufrieden. Das eigentliche Problem aber ist, dass sie möglicherweise mit dem Granatapfel Gewisses im Sch… text/html 2011-11-07T20:01:45+01:00 andreas http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/index ... things that I found valuable or that I contributed myself * SysAdmin'ish Blog: News, updates, and some frolics * My Definition Of System Administration (see also SAGE Code Of Ethics) New and updated stuff Bash scripts * mail_syntax: A script to "validate"/check the syntax of e-mail addresses * A simple colorize for the shell * postpone: A script to postpone some action for a given time * showmydisks: A script to report partitions, types, file systems, mount points, a… text/html 2011-11-04T22:28:18+01:00 andreas http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/recommendedwebapplications eMail * Gmail Calendars * Google Calendar * 30 Boxes " Others: CalendarHub" Notes and Info Managers, 2Do-Lists Todo lists+ * Toodledo * Remember The Milk * Voo2do * Hiveminder * Checklist Notes * Diigo (especially if also used for bookmarking) * ubernote * Google Notebook: simple and stupid, but not maintained anymore text/html 2011-10-23T20:29:55+01:00 andreas http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/blog:111023_shebang_sed_arguments Self-contained shebang style sed scripts generally look like #!/bin/sed -f s/.*/Hello world/ As it has been explained quite well, self-contained sed scripts don't work well with /usr/bin/env. But even without /usr/bin/env putting more than 1 argument after sed might not work. See the following example of GNU sed 4.1.5 on Debian Lenny: text/html 2011-10-22T10:55:46+01:00 andreas http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/blog:110802_vertical_sliding_panel_with_auto-hide The template "red" as distributed by LionWiki features a vertical panel on the right side which appears when the mouse is moved close to the red bar on the very right. It works with only CSS code and basically uses :hover to make the panel appear. #rightPanel { border-left:15px solid white; width:5px; right:0px; position:fixed; height:100%; top:0px; overflow:hidden; vertical-align:top; background-color:#CC3333; color:#CC3333; } #rightPanel:hover { width:180px; border-left:1px solid #CC333… text/html 2011-10-22T10:55:25+01:00 andreas http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/blog:110804_vertical_sliding_panel_v2 Soon after I wrote about Vertical, sliding panel with auto-hide I had the idea for a more robust version which also works with animations that change the width of the panel such as jQuery's .hide() So, for the fun of trying to figure out how it might work, here is a vertical panel, automatically sliding out of the right side, and disappearing upon a click or after the mouse pointer leaves the panel. Again, mouse movements are monitored by Brian Cherne's hoverIntent function which builds on the … text/html 2011-10-20T15:05:19+01:00 andreas http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~schamane/_/blog:111020_dev_null_but_fast_please If a script or program produces lots of output, generally, a reduction of the amount of output will make things run faster. The most radical reduction often seen at the command line is a redirection to /dev/null. However, this can be done in various ways with rather varying results.