Archive > December 2007

I made a newegg wish list for a quiet home server.

Here is is. I have decided to use a mac mini as my mythtv frontend.

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How to make a backup + perform a search and replace on multiple files.

Using perl of coarse. It took me a second to get this to work; but its pretty easy: perl  -pi.bak -e ‘s/string1/string2/g’

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Zen with Xen + a terrible perl program

I know I am very late to the Xen party. I try to stay on top of the life changing software, but there have just been so many new things out there over the past two years or so. I tried running a Xen kernel a while back under fedora core 6, but there were [...]

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Have spotlight reindex any volume

Its rare, but sometimes spotlight gets a little dumb. It will start missing things in /Applications or people in your address book. If this happens to you then you can have it reindex the volume. Just run mdutil -E /  (where / is the volume you want to reindex) as root.

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If you are having DNS issues w/ OS X. Look into scutil.

We had been having some problems w/ dns for OS 10.4 users. After running lookupd -flushcache didn’t work, and host was returning the correct values I got confused. Google to the rescue once again. I fixed it with scutil. If I came from BSD maybe I would have already known about it. Another item of [...]

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