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Site has moved servers

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Yes this is the server running the site

Just a quick post. This website has just moved servers. Lunarpages have pissed me off for too long. I was a long standing customer with them and refereed many clients to them over the years.

However over the last 18 months they have constantly harassed me about using to many resources. The resources of which are a less than five minute window for running a backup. Even though I had permission I then got penalised constantly to the point that the service was no longer worth while.

In turn I have moved my website and email over to my Employers Infrastructure. Please let me know if have any issues with the site or any broken links.

Funny linux commands

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This was a funny post that only my nerd friends are even going to understand. Sorry you poor people on windows. None of this will work.

This was found here. http://www.tecmint.com/20-funny-commands-of-linux-or-linux-is-fun-in-terminal/

I will just list a few

Command: sl (Steam Locomotive)

You might be aware of command ‘ls‘ the list command and use it frequently to view the contents of a folder but because of miss-typing sometimes you would result in ‘sl‘, how about getting a little fun in terminal and not “command not found“.

Install sl

root@tecmint:~# apt-get install sl 		(In Debian like OS)
root@tecmint:~# yum -y install sl 		(In Red Hat like OS)
Output
root@tecmint:~# sl

sl funny command

sl command

This command works even when you type ‘LS‘ and not ‘ls‘.

Command: rev (Reverse)

It reverse every string given to it, is not it funny.

root@tecmint:~# rev

123abc 
cba321 

xuniL eb ot nrob
born to be Linux

Command: Cowsay

An ASCII cow in terminal that will say what ever you want.

Install Cowsay

root@tecmint:~# apt-get install cowsay 		(for Debian based OS)
root@tecmint:~# yum install cowsay		(for Red Hat based OS)
Output
root@tecmint:~# cowsay I Love nix 

 ____________
< I Love nix >
 ------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

How about pipelineing ‘fortune command‘, described above with cowsay?

root@tecmint:~# fortune | cowsay 

 _________________________________________
/ Q: How many Oregonians does it take to  \
| screw in a light bulb? A: Three. One to |
| screw in the light bulb and two to fend |
| off all those                           |
|                                         |
| Californians trying to share the        |
\ experience.                             /
 -----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Note: ‘|‘ is called pipeline instruction and it is used where the output of one command needs to be the input of another command. In the above example the output of ‘fortune‘ command acts as an input of ‘cowsay‘ command. This pipeline instruction is frequently used in scripting and programming.

There are 17 others at the link featured at the top.