- Published:
- February 13, 2010 – 1:12 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
The Bash command environment, which is the namesake of this blog, is very flexible in that it allows you to manipulate the filesystem in many ways. Awk and sed are very powerful tools that allow you to do this rename with a simple one line command. This post will walk you through doing this with [...]
Categories: Code Samples, Linux, Shell, System Administration
Tagged: awk, bash, csv
- Published:
- February 8, 2010 – 9:05 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
This is my admittedly minor but I hope useful contribution to the TinyOS development community. TinyOS is an Operating System and development framework for Wireless Sensor Networks and other platforms which has a small footprint and is very energy conscious.
The TinyOS source code is available for free online for many operating systems, however it takes a [...]
Categories: Programs, Software, Ubuntu
Tagged: tinyos, ubuntos, Ubuntu, virtualbox
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- January 31, 2010 – 9:53 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
It is very easy to create a random file using the linux command line. Much like the command to fill a file with all zeros, for example a 1 Meg file:
dd if=/dev/zero of=zero.filename bs=1024 count=1000
You do the same using /dev/urandom:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=random.filename bs=1024 count=1000
Resulting in a 1MB file:
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1024000 bytes (1.0 MB) [...]
Categories: Code Samples, Linux, Security, Shell
Tagged: command line, Linux, tips
- Published:
- January 22, 2010 – 2:39 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
EDID stands for Extended display identification data and is what many computer monitors and televisions with a VGA/HDMI use to tell the PC what resolution they support. Which, in theory at least, is great.
However what I recently found out is that many LCD and Plasma televisions do not broadcast the correct 16:9 resolution via EDID, and [...]
Categories: Hardware, Tech, Windows
Tagged: drivers, edid, nvidia, windows-7
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- December 23, 2009 – 9:26 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
We recently did some speed testing on a few of the servers on our network, and we were not receiving the speeds expected considering they were sitting on a physical 100mbps ethernet port. The servers were indeed on physical 100mbps connection, however wget (TCP/IP, HTTP Port 80) download tests showed only a max of about 1.5MB/sec (note the 8bit/byte conversion, so this translates to about 12mbits).
Categories: Linux, Software, System Administration, Ubuntu
Tagged: Ethernet, kernel, Linux, network, speed, tcp/ip