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Can I really be living in a country stupid enough to vote for a man on record as saying “You can’t believe anything I say” #AusVotes

Watching Evil Brain from Outer Space. Possibly the 2nd worst film ever made. Really should stop. Can’t tear myself away…

Note to Sydney drivers: hate to be the bearer of bad news but if you want to change lanes into the lane I’m in, I have right of way, not you

The Sucker Punch trailer is out:
http://bit.ly/9ouhR7

Wondering who thought ‘shutdown’ was a good name for a linux box?

• Legend of The Guardians trailer 2 is online:
  http://bit.ly/915JGj #

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• Legend of the Guardians featurette with more footage from the movie:
  http://bit.ly/bcDtIP #

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• Sydney’s disappearing under a blanket of smoke #

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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 unix timestamp in the history file, and displays your easily readable format via the history command.

As usual, if you think something is worth doing then the chances are, someone’s already done it and you really should just go and look!

More bash stuff in the wiki

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 as I port the content across.

Meanwhile, if you find anything that is broken or any info that is clearly wrong, please let me know.

www.rootdev.com/wiki