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parted command line rant

Long time pet peeve of mine: 1. parted help states, that mkpart command syntax is: # parted /dev/sdb help mkpart mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition But, PART-TYPE is actually only supported for msdos and dvh partition tables. For gpt, it’s silently changed to: mkpart NAME START END There are so many examples [...]

workrave tuning

I’m using workrave to remind me to take breaks from the computer. It is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks etc., which in my case is a bit too frequent. I do not deal with RSI — [...]

apache traffic by vhost: quick programming language comparison

500 MB access log file from apache in common log format: www.example.com 1.2.3.4 – - [16/Feb/2013:16:17:04 -0500] “GET /movies/movie-posters/t1234.jpg HTTP/1.1″ 200 29670 “http://www.example.com/movies/movie-posters/” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.57.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.7 Safari/534.57.2″ I want to know how much traffic each web site (virtual host) made. Let’s start with the results: Lang [...]