A great list of book every library should have.
]]>This is a nice short little article. I’m always forgetting how to do mail attachments with mailx at work, and this gave me nice reminder: uuencode
The magical command in this one is uuencode, which is used to encode and decode binary files and can be used on just about any file type. The two arguments in the command above define the name and location of the source file and the name the file should have when it’s received. The parenthetical statement at the beginning combines the results of the echo and uuencode commands which are then piped (|) to the mail command.
So, remember folks:
(echo "This is the message body";uuencode [file_location] \
[file_name] ) | mailx -s "Subject line here" \
someone@adomain.com
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GREAT! article. “These are not the droids you are looking for....”
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]]>Garmin Colorado 400 BlueChart GPS: $600
Apple iPhone: $400
Blue Luminglass: $25
2008 Coffee calendar (for home): $20
Law School in a Box: $15
Swatch “Yellow Ring” watch: $140
Keurig Elite B40 Brewer (for work): $100
Green Laser: $80
Auto LED: $25
And just to dream....
Graham Chronofighter Commander watch: $10,400
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071101055329470
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]]>Software is abstract and non-tactile by its very nature. It can be difficult to see what it is doing and why it may be misbehaving. To get a better view of software, we often use tools like gdb, leaks, lsof, and sc_usage, just to name a few. We even still use “caveman debugging” techniques like recompiling the code with additional print statements.
A few years back, Sun Microsystems developed DTrace: a new and innovative way to trace running software on live systems. DTrace enables developers and administrators to “see” what their code, and others’ code, is doing in a flexible and dynamic way. With the release of Leopard, Apple has brought DTrace to Mac OS X.