HOW TO : Clear unused swap memory in Linux
Inspired by a G+ post by Thomas Weeks . swap memory is something used by the OS to essentially swap data to and forth if the...
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HOW TO : Clear screen based on OS in python scripts
I like shiny new toys :). Even though perl is pretty powerful and more than enough for the simple tasks I get to automate from time...
Project : Uptime
The uptime of this blog has been really bad recently. I switched to hosting it on a Rackspace virtual server last year and went with the...
HOW TO : Search and Replace text in a file with Perl
There are tons of sites (and tons of different ways to do this) about this information.. But wanted to note this down for my personal records....
Demonstrating the power of perl
I haven’t scripted in perl for quite some time (disadvantages of moving into management 🙂 ). Today, we had to analyze some log files at work...
HOW TO : Sort Apache Web Logs for hits by Unique IP Addresses
Say you want to find out how many hits you are getting t0 a specific page from a particular source IP, you can use this...