Author Archives: chmouel

Automate SSH known_hosts cleanup

Posted on 30 May, 2007 by chmouel

If you like me, you have to do a lot of installs[1] of the same test machine with the same IP and have to ssh it you will notice this annoying message : IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING … Continue reading →

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Linus Torvalds on GIT

Posted on 29 May, 2007 by chmouel

Pretty good video to look if you like to know more about git and its creation : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

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Mandriva Popular in Australia

Posted on 10 May, 2007 by chmouel

I have conducting a lot of different interviews for a position available as Linux Sysadmin in my company. What surprised me is the number of people having Mandrake/Mandriva on there resume as there first and current Linux experience. Make me … Continue reading →

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Little one coming in July

Posted on 6 April, 2007 by chmouel

Little one (Noah) and his mum are coming in July, this is pretty cool

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Always search before coding

Posted on 11 February, 2007 by chmouel

This is a annoying, even if it take 5mn to code thing like that : (defun my-dired-rm-rf() "Rm -rf directories" (interactive) (let ((sel (selected-window))) (dolist (curFile (dired-get-marked-files)) (if (yes-or-no-p (concat "Do you want to remove \"" (file-name-nondirectory curFile) "\" ? … Continue reading →

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Import Export to different tablespace names with Oracle 9i

Posted on 7 February, 2007 by chmouel

Renaming Oracle Database is a pain, coming from OpenSource DB like MySQL or PostGres where we do that all the time i did not think that Oracle have to be such a pain. My only way i can find. – … Continue reading →

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SVN Diff against changes in the remote repository.

Posted on 6 February, 2007 by chmouel

A useful svn wrapper scripts. Get a diff of your local repostitory against the upstream repository changes. I wonder why it is not builtins though like a svn status -u but for dif. #!/bin/bash IFS=" " for line in … Continue reading →

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Stopped smoking

Posted on 25 January, 2007 by chmouel

While reading this entry. I just remembered that it has been a a litle bit more than a month that i stopped smoking. I was a real smoker, smoking a 25 red malboro every day. But one day i wake … Continue reading →

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OpenSource Jokes

Posted on 21 January, 2007 by chmouel

Funny website that you should checkout : http://opensourcejokes.com/ i wish theses guys were not putting some stupids google ads on the site. But well i know them it’s a day to day full time job to be the funny guys … Continue reading →

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Emacs nighly cvs snapshot with xft on Ubuntu Edgy