Archive for July, 2009
shell math and alphanumeric sizes…
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Just because I really like the elegance: preload_count=$(echo “($preload_size) / ($file_size)” | sed ‘s/K/ * 1024/g’ | sed ‘s/M/ * 1048576/g’ |\ sed ‘s/G/ * 1073741824/g’ | bc)
Stopping windows update reboot prompts
Friday, July 24th, 2009So I’m doing development and testing work… No, I can’t reboot now just because you updated overnight. And by popping up continously, it threatens me accidentally hitting OK when I’m typing and the context changes. Which could abort some interactive testing going on. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000294.html
Cool one-line report…
Monday, July 13th, 2009sudo grep “GET https://www.miroguide.com/ HTTP/1.1″ /var/log/squid/access.log | grep “\”Miro/” | sed ‘s/^.*”-” “//g’ | sed ‘s/ .*$//g’ | grep Miro | sort | uniq -c The sort | uniq -c being the good part. It parsed 625,000 entries in the log to make this useful (to the person who asked for it) report: 2 Miro/0.9.8 [...]