Category Archives: Shell
When backups fail: A mysql binlog race condition
Today I ran into my first MySQL binlog race condition: The initial problem was quite simple: A typical MySQL master->slave setup with heavy load on the master and nearly no load on the slave, which only serves as a hot … Continue reading
sync ruby gems between different installed ruby versions
If you are in the Ruby business (which probably means “in the Ruby on Rails business” nowadays) sooner or later you’ll have to play around with different Ruby versions on the same machine as you might run into crashing ruby … Continue reading
my package of the day – htmldoc – for converting html to pdf on the fly
PDF creation got actually fairly easy. OpenOffice.org, the Cups printing system, KDE provide methods for easily printing nearly everything to a PDF file right away. A feature that even outperforms most Windows setups today. But there are still PDF related … Continue reading
my package of the day – htop as an alternative top
“top” is one of those programs, that are used quite often but actually nobody talks about. It just does its job: showing statistics about memory, cache and cpu consumption, listing processes and so on. Actually top provides you some more … Continue reading
my package of the day – mtr as a powerful and default alternative to traceroute
Know the situation? Something is wrong with the network or you are just curious and want to run a “traceroute”. At least under most Debian based systems your first session will probably look like this: $ traceroute www.ubuntu.com command not … Continue reading
my package of the day: proggyfonts – tiny fonts for programmers and console users
(Well, it is not yet a package, but trust me: I’ll make sure it gets one.) As a programmer or console user you might know the pain of having not as much characters on you screen as you would like … Continue reading
my package of the day: file – classify (unknown) files and mime-types on the console
You know this? Somebody just sent you a mail with attachments that don’t have usable file extensions so you don’t really know how to handle them. Audio file? PDF? What is it? The same problem might occur after a file … Continue reading
my package of the day: listadmin – moderate mailman mailing lists from the console
Are you involved in moderating Mailman mailing lists? Then maybe you know the pain: As you try to stop spammers flooding you list you hold messages from unknown senders back for review. Or you have a moderated mailing list that … Continue reading
my package of the day: fish – the friendly interactive shell
Always wanted to learn using a shell more deeply? Maybe “fish“, the “friendly interactive shell” is the right kickoff for you. If you are already a heavy command line user with customized .bashrc or even .zshrc (like me), thank you … Continue reading
my package of the day: weather-util (weather report and forecast for the console)
Let me introduce you today into a tool that a lot of people might evaluate as useless: Jeremy Stanley’s weather-util. Whith this tiny python script, which finally found its way into Debian Etch and Ubuntu repositories, you can retrieve weather … Continue reading