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America: Eleutherophobians unite!
http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/birthers-nation-how-obama-birth-certificate-issue-playing-online
The news that American southerners are the most likely to question whether President Obama is actually a native-born citizen got a lot of attention last Friday, when a Research2000 survey on that question was released by DailyKos. Eleven percent of all Americans apparently do not believe Obama was born in the United States, but 23% [...]
Finding Replacing Filenames & text inside files using perl
A few “Bash Tricks” for the peeps
First up:
Find & replace filenames
This finds file that match Somethinghtml.html and renames to Something.html (HTTP Track users will recognize these two examples as fixes to common naming problems when scraping a site.) Note you can change the mask of files searched by changing the find mask at the [...]
Ubuntu Apache Tuning
So I recently needed to do a little quick performance tuning at work on one of our ubuntu server installs. I’ve been using some of the wisdom found here to refresh myself on the basics, and I wrote a quick little one line awk script to give me the total amount of memory being used [...]
It must be summertime…
Haines Point, Sat afternoon:
