First a caveat: I’m no Redmond fanboy, but neither am I a hater and think the company’s products are always derivative crap (I use Windows Media Player and not iTunes for a reason). Sure, the software and hardware is never as pretty as Apple’s stuff, but that’s what you get for having an open platform… Continue reading My experience with Windows 8 so far
Month: October 2012
Quickie sed and awk to slice up Apache logs
This comes in very handy. To get a log slice from a given date to the end: # sed -n ‘/15\/Nov\/2010/,$ p’ /path/to/access_log Or, get a log slice in a given date range: # sed -n ‘/5\/Nov\/2010/,/5\/Dec\/2010/ p’ /path/to/access_log Do something like this to filter and sort the results: # awk ‘{print $2,$6}’ access_log |… Continue reading Quickie sed and awk to slice up Apache logs
Symlinks, Apache, and Windows
One of the main advantages that Linux holds over Windows is, in my opinion, symlinks and that they just work. Whatever process you want to follow them, simply does because they’re implemented at such a deep level of the OS. On Windows, on the other hand, default symbolic links (the ones you create by right-clicking… Continue reading Symlinks, Apache, and Windows