Craig Sanders

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Sep 30	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on How do I specify the keyserver with GPG?
Sep 30	comment	Cannot access disk, partition table broken It's extremely unlikely that merely shutting of the NAS will have damaged the disk. Doing that may cause filesystem corruption, but not physical damage. Also, the fact that it was stuck at 0% for 2+ minutes indicates that it was probably already defective (or, as Giles suggested, the drive's power or data cables may be loose or faulty).
Sep 30	comment	Got less output with print0 option on find? FYI you can simplify the find expression with: `find /some/path -iregex '.intro.\.jpe?g'`...and since there is now only one expression it will avoid the issue highlighted by cjm.
Sep 29	comment	Installing Linux on a SATA partition, with Windows installed on SSD it would also be possible to use, e.g., gparted to shrink the NTFS partition on the SSD by a few hundred MB (enough for grub and a few kernels and initrd images), and use that space to create a new ext2 /boot partition on the SSD.
Sep 29	comment	How do I tell if a folder is actually a symlink and how do I fix it if it's broken? My guess is that there's some mechanism (possibly a udev rule) to make sure that the /hdd symlink is updated to point at whatever device or share is mounted, so that other programs and scripts can just use /hdd (after testing that the directory it points to is a mounted fs). just out of curiosity, what happens if you mount a second drive or share? Does it make a /hde symlink? or is the dreambox limited to one recording directory?
Sep 29	answered	Finding corrupted files
Sep 29	comment	Download file linked in MySQL DB, extract text and insert into db with bash script? as an added bonus, both perl and python have good web robot libraries to help automate downloading and extracting data from remote URLs.
Sep 29	comment	Download file linked in MySQL DB, extract text and insert into db with bash script? There are a number of problems with your script but the most important one is that you are blindly trusting data from a remote website. Even a simple unescaped `';` in the txt could update ALL records in the database. and much worse could be done if the remote data was designed to be malicious rather than just accidental. I strongly recommend you look into using `Perl` and `DBI` or `Python` and `SQLAlchemy` or similar for database work rather than trying to DIY in bash. In particular, you want to use placeholders for all variables being passed to SQL select/insert/update/etc queries.
Sep 29	answered	How to know if a file has been written completely?
Sep 29	comment	GTK-2 error when installing Glassfish plugin for Eclipse on Fedora 16 64-bit nice to hear. feel free to upvote or accept the answer if it helped :)
Sep 28	comment	GTK-2 error when installing Glassfish plugin for Eclipse on Fedora 16 64-bit Both Glassfish and Eclipse are available separately (even packaged for various distros). The Glassfish Plugin for Eclipse is also available separately - the link on the site you mentioned is a dead link (it probably got abandoned when Oracle bought Sun and most of Sun's developers left), but a newer version appears to be available at glassfishplugins.java.net
Sep 28	revised	Advanced file filtering added 28 characters in body
Sep 28	comment	Advanced file filtering BTW, it wouldn't be difficult to come up with variations on this that used `tar` or `rsync` (that have built-in support for exclude-files) instead of `cp`. inf fact, using `tar` or `rsync` would be a good way to make the script work recursively if history/, inbox/, and backup/ contained subdirectories.
Sep 28	revised	Advanced file filtering added 1 characters in body
Sep 28	answered	Advanced file filtering
Sep 28	answered	GTK-2 error when installing Glassfish plugin for Eclipse on Fedora 16 64-bit
Sep 28	comment	Error when try to install KVM on CentOS +1. also, enabling virtualisation can often be hidden in a really bizarre location in the BIOS (esp. on name-brand PCs like HP). e.g. on a HP dc7800 (with Intel Core2 Quad Q9450 CPU), it was hidden away in "Security Settings" (or something like that, I can't remember the exact text of the menu item). It would never have occurred to me to look in a security menu for virtualisation options, I only found it by exhaustive search of ALL menu items out of desperation.
Sep 28	comment	How do I tell if a folder is actually a symlink and how do I fix it if it's broken? please don't paste screenshots for text. copy and paste the text instead, and use the pre or code tags or backticks to preserve indentation/formatting. and edit the text down to the minimum required to show whatever it is you're trying to show. BTW, one problem with screenshots is that tiny fonts become even tinier - to the point of unreadable - when viewed on higher resolution screens (e.g. 1920x1200 or 2566x1440)...pixels are fixed, text can be scaled.
Sep 26	comment	Tracking what commands were executed after sudo to another user alternatively, a much simpler version could be put in user nsup's `~/.bash_logout`
Sep 26	comment	Tracking what commands were executed after sudo to another user it works regardless of what the user sets HISTFILE to. that was the whole point of writing it. read the script, `history -a "$HISTLOG"` appends the history to $HISTLOG. doesn't use or care about $HISTFILE.