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A Unix and Linux Command Line Dictionary For Those Of Us Who Love The CLI :)

Are you a sysop? Or a fan of rap? Something here to amuse both of you ;)

Great video, and actual website, of another BOFH :) This weekend's comedic gold is quite a bit older than I would have thought. I feel like I've missed out, although I'm glad that someone finally mailed this link to me :) This is a simple (although a bit long at around 10 minutes) video that is absolutely hilarious. If you've ever done any kind of computer administration (and maybe if you've been on the other end of this debacle) it's entertaining stuff. The voices have been "chipmunked," but not to protect the innocent/guilty, since there's a cast list during the credits at the end. I'm thinking this thing was probably twice as long and the distorted voices are from a speedup of the entire video. No matter how it plays, this is a killer humor :)

How not to crash your Solaris machine using savecore on an encapsulated root disk.

How to avoid alias recursion loops in any Linux or Unix shell.

Today, I'm throwing out a little script that's most definitely a "work in progress." I ended up slapping this together after doing a lot of site search engine monitoring (it's hard work, doing all that clicking ;) Every time I post, I'm constantly curious about where my site stands with regards to certain keywords or keyword phrases. Of course, it doesn't make all the difference in the world, but when you combine an obsessive-compulsive personality and a problem, no matter how goofy, there's always an answer :)

Sometimes, you can recover that big oops!

Solaris Run Level 4 and a look at some of the "answers" to Sun Certification questions.

Linux and Unix humor from the unique perspective of the bastard operator from Hell

A classic of Linux/Unix humor and a funny fake ad for anxiety medication ...together at last ;)

Some interesting ways to use grep to shorten your command lines. Not to be confused with efficiency ;)

I have written on other occasions, you can learn more seeing errors others commit, whatever their cause, which can be more instructive than simply spelling out how to do it correctly. It simply might be the relief of not finding oneself trapped in the same predicament that makes the lesson more likely to stick. This time it was the try / catch code syntax that trapped me. It seemed too transparent and too easily understood, which resulted in my missing a critical aspect. That is today's topic of discussion.

How to feed command output to a while loop in bash without using pipes.

How to use RedHat grub to retrieve a lost root password.

A rage against MS, followed by some sysadmin humor.

The classic chicken crossing the road joke. Who knew there were so many paths?

Another week has past and it's time to laugh heartily before it all ends in tears ;) This week, I stumbled upon Two sites that had me working overtime trying not to laugh out loud at my desk. Nonsense humor isn't for everyone, but I find it the most enjoyable kind. It's goofy, it's random and once something gets me going I sound like I'm having a massive asthma attack while I'm trying to force myself to not laugh.

How to run RedHat and CentOS Linux in an Open Solaris Zone.

How to lose friends and influence people ;)

An updated version of the updated version of the Thesaurus script we put up a while ago. Many thanks :)