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| bio | website | stratigery.com |
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| location | Denver, CO | |
| age | 52 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
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My first computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer 3 - 6809-based, running OS-9 Level II. It could run 32 processes at once, due to bank-switching a whole 1 Meg of memory.
After that, I got an AT&T 3b2, also known as a Convergent Safari. This was a Motorola 68010-based desktop.
Then, I graduated to a NeXT black&white "slab". I bought a used SPARCStation IPC in 1995, and put NetBSD 0.9 on it.
I've been using Linux since 1997, starting with a DEC Alpha-based UDB, and downgrading to a x86 PC in 2002.
I run Slackware and Arch linux.
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Jun 25 |
answered | How can I call other shell script like a subroutine? |
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Jun 17 |
answered | Easiest way to forward mail to a third-party email address |
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Jun 16 |
answered | Why do Linux applications often put the language it was written with in the summary? |
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Jun 14 |
answered | What is a command line alternative to top for finding current CPU utilization that isn't dependent on screen width? |
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Jun 11 |
answered | How to clean up file extensions? |
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Jun 8 |
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How to make exported shell variables permanent? added 258 characters in body |
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Jun 8 |
answered | How to get info about given webserver FAST? |
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Jun 8 |
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Status of adding Reiser4 to the Linux kernel I'm not so sure this is a good question. Only answers of varying degrees of speculation exist, and you can google all of those answers. |
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Jun 8 |
answered | How to make exported shell variables permanent? |
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Jun 7 |
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When does UNIX “defrag”? (specifically Solaris) I wouldn't limit fragmentation-as-a-problem to Windows. Other filesystems that allocate in extents or runs, like ODS-2 or SGI's old EFS, needed regular defragging. UFS, ext2/3/4, allocate files by block, so non-contiguous files don't mess up performance as obviously. |
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Jun 7 |
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How to monitor or kill a process which has been started by cron? Down that path lies Madness. Don't work around bugs by scheduling process killers, fix the bugs. What happens when the process killer has a bug, doesn't kill the desired process, and hangs itself? WIll you write a killer killer? |
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Jun 3 |
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Difference between slow system calls and fast system calls "teh" -> "the", also "blocked" -> "slept" |
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Jun 3 |
answered | Difference between slow system calls and fast system calls |
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Jun 3 |
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ls -a not showing folder “system”, but echo * shows it I encountered a rootkit (tragedy/dor) on a Solaris box 10 years ago. It did a similar thing with any file name ending in '0'. ls failed to show the file or directory, but shell globbing and open(2) or fopen(3) worked find. |
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May 25 |
answered | Is there a way to get the min, max, median, and average of a list of numbers in a single command? |
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May 24 |
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How costly is case insensitive search as compared to case sensitive search? Two things: Which grep? On linux grep, egrep, fgrep are often or always links t the same executable, but that hasn't traditionally been true. Egrep often used different algorithms than grep, fgrep always used to. See: Andrew Hume, "A tale of two greps", Software Practice and Experience, 18, #11, Nov. 1988. See Russ Cox Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html) for timings of DFA and NFA based regexp matching. |
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May 23 |
answered | command for joining a series of files together |
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May 22 |
answered | Which BSD to start with? |
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May 21 |
answered | How does the Unix file privilege system differ from that of Windows? |
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May 21 |
answered | tool or technique to get a diff of two different linux installations |
