Find all files that changed in the last 24hours
16-Aug-07On a unix box just type in the directory you want to search for changed files: find . -mtime -1 -printfind . -mtime -1 -print
Remote hdd cloning
Some time ago i managed to clone the drive of my server over ssh. Although transmission was compressed with bzip2 it took awful long and i didn’t have a clue how long i would finally take. Today i stumpled upon this post. The author uses a tool called pv: pv – monitor the progress of […]
RMagick vs. the Rest of the World
24-Jul-07Installing RMagick seems to be a major pain in the ass… On all systems i got my hands on. On a fresh Ubuntu Feisty Fawn gems presented me this: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables Hrmpf, ImageMagick was installed, gcc for sure… What did i miss? 1. sudo apt-get install imagemagick 2. sudo apt-get […]
How to wake a sleepy mac…
07-Jul-07…or any other thing that responds to wol (wake on lan) from a Mac OS X thingy: Just use Wake550.
Raid 0 or 1 with Mac OS X
Some people tend to mock Mac OS X in favour of some other Unixes, but i like it… For me, it sucks least. Today i took some relativly small external firewire drives (250 GB each), attached them to my “always on” serving Mac Mini and it took less than 5 minutes to build a RAID […]