Monthly Archives: May 2016

bash – its not a bug its a feature

It’s not a bug it’s a feature It has been said so many times it goes beyond cliche.  It is really easy to try and explain away odd behaviors as some sort of esoteric feature It took a while before I … Continue reading

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Advertising versus reality (eating in the 21st century)

It was mothers day 2016 and so the entire family wanted to go out and celebrate with a fancy brunch. We packed up the whole family, make arrangements of when and where to meet and off we went.  We were … Continue reading

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how much are your friends worth?

I sometimes wonder why exactly Google or Microsoft, or well their search engines are interested in my queries about cats, recipes or Java syntax interests.  I suppose the cookies that are left on my hard disk while shopping are interesting … Continue reading

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command line fun – listing and sorting

Linux is not Unix yet it is very similar.  They are so similar I never really notice the difference, even when writing scripts.  I needed to get a list of sorted files, so I tried the usual commands. ls -lS … Continue reading

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