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Paths on Linux

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

Today I’m going to do a test install of the J2EE mapserver-like facilities provided by geoserver version 1.3 Rc2. I recently installed java and the JDK on this machine, so I still need to set JAVA_HOME in the path. I do this so rarely everytime I need to do it... [Read More]

Tips for using the ls command to list files in Cygwin or Linux

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

Classify [Read More]

Upgrade your debian sources.list

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

apt-spy is a program that benchmarks debian apt-get sources. Run this script when you need to find your bets local mirror for grabbing debian packages. [Read More]

Changing run levels at boot time

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

As with most stories on this site, I use my stories to store notes on things that I keep needing to lookup and that might help others. [Read More]

Simple grep and search & replace

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

grep -Hn -e “ int” *.c* *.h [Read More]

Running cygwin cron from windows as a service

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

2 Running cygwin cron from windows as a service Cron is a program for running scripts or programs at certain times. For cron to be able to do this, it has to be running when the machine is on. This is done by adding cron as a service. Open a... [Read More]

X windows with Cygwin

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

PC XStation Configuration Download the CygWin setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com. [Read More]

Simple netstat

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

netstat -tln | fgrep :10000 [Read More]

Meet Bubba

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

We had originally planned to slow down after the wedding – Didn’t happen! Now that the wedding planning is not consuming our time, this past Tuesday we decided to apply as foster parents at the Northern VA Sheltie Rescue Association. We figured they would check our references, enroll us in... [Read More]

Reformatting a text field in Microsoft Access to be a true date

By John C. Zastrow

Posted on July 5, 2008

I had a text field (DATEOLD) with values like 20030526, that were dates in YYYYMMDD. [Read More]