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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Timestamps in Bash History
I spent years wondering why there aren’t timestamps in the bash history file, and why there’s no obvious way to add them as they would be so fundamentally useful.
Turns out there is a nice easy way to do it after all:
Set HISTTIMEFORMAT to some suitable string in your .bashrc, ie “%F %T”, this puts a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Tech by Craig
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Wiki Wiki Wiki, Oi Oi Oi!
The wiki is finally online. Had a slight legacy issue with versions of PHP between my dev and live environments that took a little while to work out.
There are still a lot of gaps in the wiki, and quite a few dead links, but they should be sorted out in the next couple of weeks [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Geek, Tech by Craig
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
OpenNMS vs Nagios
What’s Wrong With Nagios?
Don’t get me wrong, I like Nagios. I think it’s an excellent piece of software and I have spent many years working with it, but I have just completed a proof of concept and gained approval to deploy OpenNMS as a new Enterprise Grade Network Monitoring System. And the main system targeted [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Tech by Craig
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
The Decline of Western Civilisation
I just watched two girls having a conversation over the balcony in a department store which ended as follows:
Girl1: I was looking for you, I’ll come up and visit you.
Girl2: No, I’ll come to you. Where are you?
Girl1: I’m just here.
I know I should say something here, but I’m sorry, I’ve got nothing…
No Comments » - Posted in Decline and Fall, Yoof of Today by Craig
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
MOAS Requirements
You want the Moon on a Stick.
Or: Project Management the Wrong Way
Having spent the last 6 months working in Project Management after being thrown in the deep end, the best advice I can give is make sure your requirements are signed off before you start.
It all started so simply. I was taken on as a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Project Management by Craig
Friday, June 6th, 2008
What colour is black?
Took this photo a while ago and thought I’d share it with people on the off-chance any of you are as sad as me.
This is what black looks like on our super cheap DVD player over our super expensive
component cable compared to how it looks over a normal video lead.
1 Comment » - Posted in Geek, Misc by Craig
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Garfield Minus Garfield
Without doubt the best thing I have seen on the internet for quite some time:
“Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the
Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about
schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern
life?”
Garfield Minus Garfield
Absolute genius.