head -n 2 `ls -1rt | tail -n 1` ; echo "...";echo "..."; tail -n 1 `ls -1rt | tail -n 1`
2008/11/18
Heads and Tails of the last file in a directory.
2008/11/13
Screen, act like an xterm
Screen when invoked has a multitude of options, but one that was particularly helpful for me was this:
screen -T xterm ssh user@someunixhost
So as to make the TERM environment variable appear to be xterm allowing vi and other tools to work properly.
Figuring out how to get that into my ~/.screenrc so that it takes affect every time is the next objective. Not many of the hosts I connect to identify "screen" as a TERM type.
screen -T xterm ssh user@someunixhost
So as to make the TERM environment variable appear to be xterm allowing vi and other tools to work properly.
Figuring out how to get that into my ~/.screenrc so that it takes affect every time is the next objective. Not many of the hosts I connect to identify "screen" as a TERM type.
2008/08/19
Obama's Newbie Activists: Unloved By Insiders But Here To Stay
You should ask those more "seasoned" individuals, who there house is built to serve? Their own well being or the well being of the people of this country? Whether in the Republican or Democrat party, I've found that (with some exceptions in each of course) the established members of each organization are convinced of their own entitlement to lead and control things than they are of operating as an organization of free people acting together in the mass of people that make up the parties interests.
Both parties should lean towards the latter half in future or get more Liebermans and might as well be neocon / pseudodem types in your ranks.
About Democratic Convention
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Both parties should lean towards the latter half in future or get more Liebermans and might as well be neocon / pseudodem types in your ranks.
About Democratic Convention
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
2008/08/13
Say It Ain't Jew, Joe

A very effective PAC working in the US to advance the interests of the nation of Israel
* not the people of Israel as about half of Israelis believe the US aids Israel too much, which is saying alot.
You don't have to read conspiracy into it either, it's just a case of one country having a very effective lobbying organization that is getting what more than what it pays for from the US government. That lobbying organization is acting in the interests of hard line militarists in Israel. These folks want to stay in power indefinitely, apparently seeing that the best way to do that is to keep tension high in the region, peace is best kept short lived, military funding is perpetual and plentiful, and best of all we(the US) look like the bad guy.
Lieberman is a friend to them, at all costs it seems.
Contrast AIPAC with JStreet the latter being a more worthy lobbying group IMO. Essentially saying, perpetual shows of "strength" and ever escalating conflict is maybe not such a good idea, go figure.
About Barack Obama
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
2008/08/11
2008/07/25
2008/07/14
Obama Campaign Manager Airs Cash Woes In Video

About Barack Obama
The EFF is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notably active against the current FISA laws set of compromises and willy nilly allotments of warrantless wiretaps to aging chimpanzees and bloated curmudgeons currently in office. Oh and telecom immunity too, for the (telecom) business set to safely feel free to continue to roll over when some spook gives them a call.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
2008/06/11
Apache Commons
Java is an obtuse beast, written by obtuse beasts.
I will be detailing efforts to use the apache commons io framework (DirectoryWalker in particular) in this post.
Apache Commons consists of several helpful extensions to Java in various areas, IO in particular being the one I'm interested, though Math and XML processing code exists for anyone to take advantage of.
Problems that I'm currently working through:
From the documentation:
References:
(http://commons.apache.org/io/api-release/org/apache/commons/io/DirectoryWalker.html)
I will be detailing efforts to use the apache commons io framework (DirectoryWalker in particular) in this post.
Apache Commons consists of several helpful extensions to Java in various areas, IO in particular being the one I'm interested, though Math and XML processing code exists for anyone to take advantage of.
Problems that I'm currently working through:
- DirectoryWalker seems to include mechanics for depth limitations, but the default means of shuffling the File objects returned seems to be an Array, the search process itself seems to dive into the filesystem in a chaotic and unseemly way, that does not lend itself to being easily limited to a certain depth.
- Java in general, is somewhat defiant of concrete scrutiny to non domain level experts. So, if one isn't already an expert Java programmer, one cannot take at face value the indications of the documentation for modules involved.
From the documentation:
This class operates with a FileFilter
and maximum depth to limit the files and direcories visited. Commons IO supplies many common filter implementations in the filefilter package.
References:
(http://commons.apache.org/io/api-release/org/apache/commons/io/DirectoryWalker.html)
2008/05/06
Deciphering HPUX 11.0 era compilers and how they tend to fail to build Chinese code (zhchs, zhcht locales) when it is attempted at my workplace, on certain machines.
What this all brings to mind is the tendency of Unix System Administrators to "poison the pool" so to speak by *not* documenting their setups. I'll put this simply for anyone who is a Unix / Linux advocate in todays world of computing, Unix is difficult enough to understand for people who understand it. Throwing shit together and putting it in production with no supporting documentation creates no end of grief when the eventual (and certain) leaving of your job occurs. Unless you want your name to be cursed nigh unto eternity by those that follow you, DOCUMENT YOUR SETUPS AS YOU GO.
Thank you, and good night.
What this all brings to mind is the tendency of Unix System Administrators to "poison the pool" so to speak by *not* documenting their setups. I'll put this simply for anyone who is a Unix / Linux advocate in todays world of computing, Unix is difficult enough to understand for people who understand it. Throwing shit together and putting it in production with no supporting documentation creates no end of grief when the eventual (and certain) leaving of your job occurs. Unless you want your name to be cursed nigh unto eternity by those that follow you, DOCUMENT YOUR SETUPS AS YOU GO.
Thank you, and good night.
2008/03/04
2008/01/14
The Smear of Smears, Racism and Ron Paul
Currently working on expansion on this trackback:
http://haloscan.com/tb/sonichost/3905451830583339730
http://haloscan.com/tb/sonichost/3905451830583339730
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