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Monthly Archives: March 2023
Key management
Why Are Fluke Meters So EXPENSIVE?
This was interesting: eevBLAB 91 – Why Are Fluke Meters So EXPENSIVE?
The follow up, also good: EEVblog 1447 – EXPENSIVE Fluke vs CHEAPER Brymen – Teardown.
Silicon Chip books
The good people at Silicon Chip are clearing out their old library, and I have just arranged to buy 43 of their old electronics books for $2 each. Bargain! The gory details are here.
The Linux man-pages project
Today I discovered: The Linux man-pages project.
Forcing a partition table reload
I’m reading How Linux Works, 3rd Edition: What Every Superuser Should Know and I learned that you can force the kernel to reload a partition table with a command like this:
# blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdX
Toilet light cover part 2
Just an update on my toilet light cover. My new screws arrived so I replaced the big (18mm) ones with some more appropriate smaller (10mm) ones. It’s now ready to go back in the roof, will do that soon.
Why is firefox trying to access fstab and how can I stop it?
My first question on Ask Ubuntu: Why is firefox trying to access fstab and how can I stop it?
hostinfo.sh
I created a new script hostinfo.sh, it works a little like this:
------------------- Mon Mar 27 00:13:55 [bash:5.1.16 jobs:0 error:0 time:0] jj5@charm:/home/jj5 $ hostinfo.sh id.............: 218-jj-wrk-8-charm-prod-home fqdn...........: charm.jj5.net host...........: charm host-prod......: charm host-test......: charm-test domain.........: jj5.net sysid..........: 218 system.........: jj-wrk-8 realm..........: jj class..........: wrk typenum........: 8 deployment.....: prod provider.......: home environment....: home netenv.........: prod net............: GREEN instance-type..: None -------------------
moreutils: ts
I recently discovered the `ts` command from the moreutils package. You can use it to prepend a timestamp to each line.