The fateful day came for server no one cares for. No backups, no real support, wasted space by most common opinion but, I am fixing it in the middle of the night. fsck and a serial console are the only things keeping me from going to sleep.

Today I took my bicycle to work in the great weather. My 8 mile trip took about 90 minutes for a rough average speed of 6mph. I found the biggest problem was the exhaust for all the cars, the second was the hill out of Des Moines towards the airport. I am think on the way home to go through the valley then walk up 260th to avoid the hill up to 518 ( Read more... )

In the BASH shell there are control shortcuts that are based from escape and command sequences. The command and escape sequences were added to terminals to all for changing the display size, color, cursor location. There are many different sets of commands that were defined. The commands in BASH have some of the same effects. One reason to use ( Read more... )