Need to unpack a bunch of files such as: bigfile.tar-part0000 bigfile.tar-part0001 bigfile.tar-part0002 with the following command: cat bigfile.tar-part000* | tar xzf – which untars the part file’s contents to the current folder.
Category: Software
Shredding data on your Mac
You need to get rid of data in form of files, directories or drives? May be you know the ‘shred’ command on linux. On OS X, there is srm (stands for ‘secure rm‘): The following command will apply the secure remove to -directory in a -recursive way using all -force needed in a -medium (though… Continue reading Shredding data on your Mac
Need Internet Explorer in OSX?
Great article: http://osxdaily.com/2011/09/04/internet-explorer-for-mac-ie7-ie8-ie-9-free/
Accepting Credit Cards on Your Website
Great resource: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/creditcards.shtml
clash of the NOSQL databases
http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis
Hardening Linux / Apache
Just a list of tutorials: http://www.openlogic.com/wazi/bid/188105/How-to-Secure-Your-Apache-Web-Server http://blog.monitis.com/index.php/2011/06/22/25-linux-server-hardening-tips/ http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-security.html
Integrate Amazon SQS Messaging with Spring
http://nevado.skyscreamer.org/quickstart.html
Splunk: Keep indexed volume under control
You can use splunk for free for up to 500 megabytes of indexed data daily. To make sure you do not run beyond this limitation, use the following query: index=_internal group=”per_source_thruput” NOT series=”*splunk/var/log*” | eval mb=kb/1024| timechart span=1d sum(mb) by series When drawing a bar graph, you directly see, what type of log is filling… Continue reading Splunk: Keep indexed volume under control
Mount Remote Folders Via sshfs in OSX
http://www.danbishop.org/2011/09/10/how-to-mount-sftp-ssh-shares-in-os-x-lion/
Finding large files in Linux
Spring clean up? Find all the files which are larger than 20 megs: find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} ; | awk ‘{ print $9 “: ” $5 }’