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Work, play, and everything in-between ![[feed]](http://iandexter.net/wp-content/themes/deposed-wp/images/icon-feed.gif)
Using screen
My work setup is like this: I have two monitors, one for a maximized Thunderbird window, and the other for a PuTTY window, Firefox, Outlook (minimized to tray, and only used for calendar reminders mostly), and IE. Well, I do open other windows, but I tend to use the above most often.
I use PuTTY extensively [...]
Quick directory switching
At work, I do a lot of directory traversal: going from one location to another within the whole (global) filesystem structure. So, to conveniently go back to a previous directory, I use pushd and popd, aside from the usual cd:
$ pwd
/home/iandexter
$ pushd /etc/sysconfig
$ pwd
/etc/sysconfig
$ popd
$ pwd
/home/iandexter
You can even echo $DIRSTACK to list the current directories [...]
Quickies
Work: Gone Unix-hardcore. Our team currently leads Unix training for other infra teams. Shell/Perl scripting occupies a large part of the, er, curriculum. I’m “re-learning” Perl. I’m also amazed as to how open source is being leveraged here. I lurve open source.
Family: Prior to a change of shift sked, I go on an extended off-shift [...]
Long night
I’m still here at the office, watching text scroll down (or is it up?) the monitor. Actually, I’m backing up the whole /var partition from one of the mail servers, to make way for a larger capacity disk.
You’re thinking, duh, LVM. But this server had been set up way before LVM became stable. I [...]
Windows-to-*nix public key authentication
I’ve worked with lots of servers, most of which I cannot access directly, so I often use remote access: Remote Desktop Connection or Terminal Services in Windows, and ssh in *nix.
While I do have PasswordSafe to remember all those passwords, I’m the lazy admin type, so I often opt for password-less authentication using public keys. [...]
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