$ find ~/Maildir/lug-* -type f | \
> xargs grep -il $(echo ‘ivfgn’ | rot13) | \
> awk -F ‘/’ ‘{ print $5 }’ | \
> sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
34 lug-hampshire
31 lug-gl
19 lug-northwales
13 […]
Thanks for that, noodles! I’ve been wanting to say it myself for some time but for some reason decided against it for fear of being castigated as a grumpy old man. I shall not hold back from the ranting in future.
On the one hand maybe there are some people out there who read […]
Clarity is the key…except when not bothering to do any research for a LUGRadio feature.
In relation to my recent hardware issues I now have a bit of a dilemma, although it’s not a bad kind of dilemma to have.
Yesterday afternoon memtest86+ locked up after 10h28m running. It didn’t report any memory errors but clearly there are hardware problems there if even memtest can lock it up. So […]
I’ve got a Supermicro-based server that I’m in the process of setting up for Xen hosting purposes. After 3 or 4 days of uptime and light load (because it’s not in production yet) sitting in its rack in a datacentre weird things start to happen.
I get random kernel panics and OOPSes, it locks up […]
popey pointed me to this 70-minute Richard Dawkins tour de force on YouTube.
BBC: Inventor of instant noodles dies.
Baby is sent through X-ray machine at LAX
Alternative London tube map
“WikiLeaks is developing an uncensorable version of WikiPedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary targets are highly oppressive regimes in China, Russia, central eurasia, the middle east and sub-saharan Africa, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the […]
Uraeus, correct me if I am wrong but as far as I was aware Launchpad is not released software i.e. no one but Canonical uses it. Therefore IMHO there isn’t really a big issue about whether its source code should be released or not, since there is no one actually running it to take […]
I realise that being on so many LUG and similar lists means I’m setting myself up for this but seeing the same conversation play out 10 times already is really doing my head in!
$ cd ~/Maildir
$ find . -type f | xargs grep -il ‘http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/softwarepatents’
./lug-hampshire/cur/1167746700.27551_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-hampshire/cur/1167748676.30387_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./debian-uk/cur/1167842646.25530_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-aberdeen/cur/1167904508.25092_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-aberdeen/cur/1167878764.2444_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-aberdeen/cur/1167873078.30123_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-gl/cur/1167917038.6388_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-gl/cur/1167919940.10510_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-gl/cur/1167918956.9559_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-surrey/cur/1167838262.19494_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-surrey/cur/1167837614.17607_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sb/cur/1167906342.26657_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167845280.28760_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167827746.4426_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167914202.4414_0.bitfolk.com:2,RS
./lug-sussex/cur/1167827668.4349_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-sussex/cur/1167828364.4997_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./lug-master/cur/1167906018.26248_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./cur/1167748049.28558_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
./cur/1167815237.20322_0.bitfolk.com:2,S
Pity the petition reads like it was written by a frothing […]