April 2008
Movie Review - Street Kings
As I’ve read in the other reviews of this movie, Street Kings had the “Training Day” atmosphere to it, which isn’t that bad considering the praises Training Day had received.
Movie Review - Nim’s Island
Nim’s Island is a pathetic excuse for an adventure flick, which fails in so many levels due to poor acting.
The story mainly focuses on how Nim tries to survive on deserted island all by herself when her father got accidentally lost at sea.
Linux Tip of the Day - Removing files with bad filenames
If a file has a special character, Unix will try to interpret the character.
Renaming these type of files cannot be done with a simple “mv”…..it will have to be done using the file’s inode.
Movie Review - Asylum
A group of students discover that their dorm used to be an asylum run by a mad doctor, with a flair for inflicting pain and torture on his patients (as he believes this to be the cure for their illnesses).
January 2008
Linux Tip of the Day - tail with color
(via)Here is how to monitor a growing file and have it highlight a KEYWORD:
Sony’s nano killers
Sony’s long-awaited Video Walkman is the nano’s worst nightmare. Its a rocket aimed squarely at Apple’s posterior. Incredibly slim it reproduces celluloid greats in the eye-popping, retina-frying resolution.
May 2006
A Penny
Several years ago, a friend of mine and her husband were invited to spend the weekend at the husband's employer's home. My friend, Arlene, was nervous about the weekend. The boss was very wealthy, with a fine home on the waterway, and cars costing more than her house.
Adding disk on Linux
Linux hard disk device names follow a specific standard. SCSI disks all start with sd and IDE disks with hd. After this comes a letter that identifies the unit number of the disk, so for example, the first disk would be a, the second would be b, the third would be c, and so on.
Reclusive Linux founder opens up
(CNN) -- Portland, Oregon is the unlikely capital of a global software revolution. The revolution is called Open Source. And its leader? Linus Torvalds, the reclusive founder of Linux.
