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sftp (authenticity can't be established)
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:10:53 -0700 (PDT), Stu <beefstu350(a)hotmail.com> wrote: I get the following message: Connecting to diamond... The authenticity of host 'diamond (172.16.2.14)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is 35:cd:be:e4:8a:27:4e:fe:9b:c3:87:89:eb: 52:dc:a7. Are you sure you want to c... 21 Jun 2010 04:47

Locking shell sessions
Helo all, I've been having a very annoying problem lately. I have konsole opened with many tabs were scripts or executables are running, some within ssh sessions, some are command line, others do open X windows. And sometimes a session will lock up for no reason. If it's text-only, I can press [Scroll lock] and... 23 Jun 2010 09:30

Output n equal signs from a script
Hello, how can I print n equal signs in a shell script, without using a for loop, like for i in `seq 1 20` ; do echo -n "=" done Is there a better way and just with bash build-ins? Regards, Marc ... 21 Jun 2010 04:47

Simple hack to get $600 to your home.
Simple hack to get $600 to your home at http://lifeisbeatiful.co.cc Due to high security risks,i have hidden the cheque link in an image. in that website on left side below search box, click on image and enter your name and address where you want to receive your cheque.please dont tell to anyone. ... 16 Jun 2010 21:02

ascii and EBCDIC conversions
How could I convert ASCII to EBCDIC, and vice versa? I tried iconv under cygwin, with no avail. $ iconv -f ascii -t CP819 input.txt ... iconv: input.txt:1:2: cannot convert $ iconv -f CP819 -t ASCII input.txt ... iconv: input.txt:1:2: cannot convert $ cat input.txt ...I_%.IAEEÑ?>..........E?/oA>I.á>IA%?o... 1 Jul 2010 23:20

parsing csv
I want to write a bash script (for some reason...perl would be easier) that parses a comma separated file, and then, for each line, prints any two of many csv values. .....to hard code the reading of two positional values, you might do something like: #/bin/bash IFS=, while read line do set $line ... 16 Jun 2010 15:28

Top 10 iPhone apps
There are literally hundreds of thousands of iPhone apps, many of which are free to download. So what are the best ones? It depends on what you like to do with your iPhone, but these are 10 of the most popular (and useful!). Read more : http://www.onechap.com/news/top-iphone-apps/top-iphone-apps-10_9.html ... 16 Jun 2010 14:22

Detection of server hangs
Hello all, I have a webserver that sometimes hangs and I'd like a way to detect when this happens. Of course what I really want is to fix those lockups, but despite some discussions on other forums and plenty of changes to my httpd.conf, no luck so far. It's a recent apache, using php and mysql. The access_lo... 17 Jun 2010 06:46

The daemon helper, dh is its name
The daemon helper, dh is its name. It's a small C program that starts any program or shell command as a daemon, then gets out of the way. Yes I know there are various others. But this is one I wrote, and I gave it an Apache license. If you don't like the name "dh" for whatever reason, you can patch the M... 15 Jun 2010 19:51

Huge mailbox split?
Hi, I customer just gave me a massive mail file in mbox format which has accrued over several years. The file was rescued from an old drive of a previous but now broken system, and so I would like to restore the mailbox in a mail application on a new system. The mail file was readable on the previous syste... 19 Jun 2010 13:27