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Author Archives: Dave
Marketing vs Piracy
“Why is it ‘marketing‘ when a company helps itself to my information against my will and ‘piracy‘ or ‘industrial espionage‘ if I helped myself to THEIR information against their will ?”
Roads and Maritime Services—Online Renewals (Privacy)
Privacy statement as presented to me on 2016-04-26 to register a motor vehicle online.
Roads and Maritime Services—Online Renewals (T&C)
Terms and Conditions as presented to me on 2016-04-26 to register a motor vehicle online.
using variables on the command line
I find I’m always repeating certain command lines with subtle changes. If the changes can be predicted, why not use a variable instead? Here’s how:
SSH key pairs and getting it onto the server
I have to go digging this one up every time I need it. I just can’t remember what to type, so here it is plain and simple.
How it’s made: Aluminium Can
The humble Aluminium (aka Aluminum) can. How it’s made, and other stuff you just didn’t know about it.
new lines in sed on mac
I had a file that had a single line of output that needed a newline added for readability. I do this in Ubuntu regularly, but when I tried it on the mac I just couldn’t get it right. It seems it’s broken and this was how to get around it.
Fun with Flags
I am a fan of TED presentations especially when they’re well presented like this one. I’m sure that Sheldon would even get a kick out of this one and possibly learn a thing or two.
What files is my program trying to access?
I was running concurrent hashes of two physical drives and I usually redirect the output of the hashset to a file so that I can then run an audit on it at a later time.
But my system has appeared to stall on one file. Or has it? What is it doing?