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Resolve Relative to Absolute Paths with readlink
Just wanted to resolve a relative file path so that I can pass it as an absolute path to a program. #!/bin/sh QCAD_DIR=/opt/qcad-2.2.2.0-1-prof.linux.x86 ABS_PATH=$(readlink -f "$1") cd $QCAD_DIR && ./qcad $ABS_PATH Credits: Andy
Cisco 877 Continual Reload
I used Cisco's SDM to configure the stateful firewall component on a Cisco 877 but I let it add all the automatic Instant Messenger rules. That's when things started going wrong. The Cisco crashed and reloaded... probably 10 times a day. Deleting the IM stateful...
Shock! Horror! Shock! No wait I said that already — Youtube Unavailable
OK so it happens so rarely that I had to post about it. On Wed 14 Jul 2010 06:38:24 PM AEST I got this when attempting to put on some tunes to shower by:
Cisco Network Topology Icons
If you use Dia or another open source diagramming package you may need some network infrastructure icons. Cisco publishes some here http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac50/ac47/2.html Note: Dia already includes most of these which were converted several years ago when the...
Circular Reboot due to Harddisk Removal
Until yesterday I had two hard drives in my Fedora 13 box. Hard disk 1 - /dev/sda was a 200GB Western Digital and hard disk 2 - /dev/sdb is a 500GB Samsung containing my Fedora 13 installation. The Western Digital, after many years of faithful service has died, and so...
Remember the Name
This post is another one of my memory jogger posts. After posting this I stumbled upon, in the original sense, not the http://www.stumbleupon.com/ sense. A link to http://www.site5.com/hosting/ which seems to have a better approach to hosting than some other hosting...