Archive for the 'linux' Category

Ram As A Fast OS Cache

PC World - Kernel space: How to use a terabyte of RAM
Since I feel physical pain every time I feel or notice my computer swap to disk, I’ve always wanted a kernel module that loads my OS partition into Ram at boot.  Since I’m running on 4 gigs of ram now, that’s almost reasonable.
It’d be […]

Fixing keys in the OS X Terminal App

Ever have the problem in a Mac OS X terminal that when ssh’ed into a remote machine - delete (backspace on mac) hates you? It doesn’t work but instead send an unparsable character?
Here’s a quick fix.
From Frederic Wenzel’s blog:

Add the following line to your .profile:

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ftp command line on linux

ftp from the command line just sucks.
you can’t recursively copy anything without scripting, and the syntax of commands is from 1971. (Original FTP RFC)
That is why yafc was invented. “Yet Another FTP Client” works just like command line programs should ( tab completion - cp, rm…etc ), and seems to handle large file transfers […]

Unix Standards and Roadblocks

Taken from an IBM dev net posting on “Standards and Specs: Unix…”
A single programmer who wants a copy of the POSIX specification would have to pay US$974 for it. That gets a one-year subscription; you are not licensed to continue referring to the standard thereafter. By comparison, you can obtain the C standard from ISO […]

ajax terminal emulators and more

I need to install one of these tonight. I’m looking to set up one of these as a front-end to a screen session login on all of my servers.
This way - I can just go to a web page and always have access to my work - exactly where I left off.
Anyterm
WebCmd (Not […]