For the things in life which make me glad I'm not dead yet.
Archive for September, 2011
Bash – Snip Leading Zeros
Sep 15th
valueWithoutZeroes=”$(echo $valueWithZeroes | sed ‘s/0*//’)” More ...
Linux – Partitions & Filesystems
Sep 13th
Creating a new partition /sbin/fdisk /dev/hda In fdisk, to create a new partition, type n and follow the prompts, use the w command to write the changes to the partition table when complete. Restart the virtual machine & create a file system on the new partition: /sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda3 mkdir /mnt/data mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/data Edit: /etc/fstab: /dev/hda3 /mnt/data… More ...
Parent Culture
Sep 2nd
Picked this up on Chortle: John Cleese has claimed London is ‘no longer an English city’. In an interview on Australian TV, the Fawlty Towers star said the ‘parent [ie British] culture’ had all-but vanished from the streets of the capital. Interviewed to promote a show at Sydney Opera House, 71-year-old Cleese was asked about last… More ...
Summer Clearout
Sep 1st
What a great Summer for Liverpool! £4m for N’gog, I thought he’d be another piece of deadwood we’d struggle to give away. By my count that’s over a dozen players shipped out either on loan or permanently this Summer. Cole & Aquilani out on loan to Lille and AC Milan respectively. Konchesky, Jovanovic, Poulsen, Kyrgiakos,… More ...