In my effort to learn and try new things out, I banged together a quick Rails Codename Generator App to generate codenames for the naming of projects or other prieces of work.
Next to no code cut. It’s a simple app allowing you to add either adjectives or nouns, then “randomly” combines a word f...
I was required to backup a company website, this backup had to be able to be stood up on a plain jane webserver. So after a bit of googling I came up with this. The tarball can be unpacked into the docroot standing the site up as it was the date it was backed up. Not entirely pretty but done this wa...
Command to get the current transaction count from the command line of a Micro Focus Server Enterprise Edition (assume it will work for Enterprise Server as well).
curl -silent http://servername:9503/esmac/casrdo5 | grep -A 1 Transactions | tail -1 | sed -e 's/]*>//g' -e 's/ //g'
Download image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
Copy over image to the SD Card
sudo dd bs=1m if=/Users/alisterjupp/Downloads/2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img of=/dev/rdisk5
Extend OS to full size of SD Card via raspi-config at first boot
Set static ip
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Western Digital 640 HD My Book Home Edition (USB/eSATA/Firewire 400) for backups $145 from JB Hifi – Dunno if it’s just me but SLOW SLOW SLOW, which in the grand scheme of things speed really isn’t that important as I bought it for data backup. I haven’t tried the eSATA, but the Firewire didn’t rea...