Apparently Unix time/POSIX time will hit a rather impressive 1234567890 in the next few days. What is even more interesting is that this is happening on Friday the 13th, 2009. You can find out when it will happen in your local time by running perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),”\n”;’. Just another milestone [...]
Posts Tagged ‘unix’
Compiling RRDtool 1.3.x On Mac OS X
I’ve recently been trying to upgrade RRDtool to 1.3.x as I’ve previously been using 1.2.x. New in 1.3 is moving to Cairo graphics, which is pretty cool and provides much better anti-aliased text. MMAP IO should also help since I run it on an old box. It’s a worthwhile upgrade.
Shell Stats
Since it seems like everyone else on Planet Mozilla is doing it… My twist: multiple systems. Actually I found it interesting too see the variation based on what I use them for.
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$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head
114 ls
91 cd
63 sh
41 ssh
37 sudo
14 pico
13 [...]
In Search Of The Epoch Child
The UNIX Epoch is 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970. That’s essentially the beginning of time for UNIX based systems. You know, “In the beginning when Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created the /usr and the /etc“1.
I’m curious if anyone has tracked down someone (preferably a geek) who was born on [...]
Background Batch File
I want to run a batch file via Scheduled Tasks in Windows XP.
Does anyone know how to run it in the background (without the window)? I don’t want to see the window. Just have it do it’s magic.
Crontab like (no crontab ports though, don’t want to add more software).
Anyone [...]
