Monthly Archives: February 2008

Vmware disk recovery in linux

If you have ever had an issue with vmware or if you have been afraid of using vmware for fear that if some­thing goes hor­ri­bly wrong you may not be able to extract the infor­ma­tion from your vmware image then this infor­ma­tion should help you.

What to do when your exim queue starts getting unruly.

Our exim mail server has been get­ting a bit flakey in the past sev­eral weeks. As far as I could tell it was being caused by junk mail get­ting caught in the queue. After a bit of research I believe I have found a com­bi­na­tion of solu­tions that seems to do the trick (at least

Use bc for command line math

BC is a great math library. Its extremely flex­i­ble and can be eas­ily used in scripts.

A note about content.

I am pulling in a few arti­cles from my other site which are bet­ter suited here.

Launched!

Well, I have been plan­ning to launch this site for a while now. A place to pay homage to the all mighty ter­mi­nal in all of its glory. Actu­ally I’m sure some non-terminal things will get in here but really thats fine. Ulti­mately I hope this will be a place for peo­ple to waste a