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Bert blogt » Not everybody is created equal

http://blog.bdesmet.be/2013/09/not-everybody-is-created-equal

Not everybody is created equal. Added Sep 21, 2013, Under: my opinion. The distribution of wealth. It does mean that everybody should have access to the basic needs such as education, healthcare, a way to get around the city, … . The rich can have some extras, but only the kind of extras one does not actually need to have a decent life. Luckily for Belgium the inequality in income, and therefore probably in wealth too, between all groups is not as worse than in some other countries, such as the USA.

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Bert blogt » How to run your scripts more than once per minute?

http://blog.bdesmet.be/2012/07/how-to-run-your-scripts-more-than-once-per-minute

How to run your scripts more than once per minute? Added Jul 23, 2012, Under: fedora. For a client I needed to run a specific script every 10seconds. 24/24 and 7/7. A task I would normally perform with crons. But sadly enough, a cron can only be started once per minute. So I wrote a ‘runner’ script. A script that starts the other script. Things this script does:. Runs the child script 10s after the end of the previous try. Sends an e-mail if stderr is returned. Only one instance will run at the same time.

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Bert blogt » setting the screen resolution

http://blog.bdesmet.be/2011/12/setting-the-screen-resolution

Setting the screen resolution. Added Dec 29, 2011, Under: fedora. I regularly use a screen that my fedora install doesn’t recognize. I mean, it can’t find the right resolution. And that’s annoying. Luckily there is xrandr to solve such problems. But always using 4 commands is rather annoying, so I made a small script for it. Just put this code in a file, and make it executable (chmod x [ file] ). Then run it like this (if the filename is ‘screenreso’):. Screenreso 1920 1200 VGA1. View other posts by Bert.

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Bert blogt » Numius wins a prestigious beacon award!

http://blog.bdesmet.be/2012/03/numius-wins-a-prestigious-beacon-award

Numius wins a prestigious beacon award! Added Mar 1, 2012, Under: ICT-related. The company where I work is an important player when it comes to business intelligence in Belgium. Last year we decided to concentrate more on the cloud. We had a lot of in house knowledge already, so why not use it to build a good platform with IBM software and hardware? Early 2011 we decided to start with a stack based on IBM Cognos, IBM DB2, SLES and IBM system X servers. Check what we can offer. You and request a free trial.

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Bert blogt » database backup retention script

http://blog.bdesmet.be/2012/08/database-backup-retention-script

Database backup retention script. Added Aug 17, 2012, Under: fedora. Backups are important. Not keeping all backups is equally important. Especially when you are taking backups of big databases, and you don’t have enough space to keep 500TB of data backups. This is what I came up with:. ContainsElement $yearMonth ${yearMonths[@]} then stay[$z]=$a let z yearMonths[$[${#yearMonths[@]} 1] =$yearMonth fi fi fi #keep one backup per quarter if containsElement $month ${explicitMonths[@]} &! ContainsElement $yea...

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Bert blogt » Cocktail a la Louisiana

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Cocktail a la Louisiana. Added Apr 13, 2014, Under: cool stuff. When I was in San-Francisco last year I discovered an awesome cocktail in the ‘ tradition. 8216; bar. Go visit that place when you are in SF, you’ll love it, I promise. When I tried the cocktail ‘a la Louisiana’ I wanted to try it for myself. So I asked for the recipe and I got it. Now I’m posting it here for future generations. 8220;a la Louisiana”. 45ml rye whiskey (I’m a fan of the Hudson whiskey). 2 dashes (2ml) of absinthe. How to run y...

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Bert blogt » cron issues: not being able to get a real ‘from’ address

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Cron issues: not being able to get a real ‘from’ address. Added Aug 13, 2012, Under: fedora. And yet another issue with cron. After some googling and trying things I decided to give up and write my own very small script that takes care of this all. This is how the mailer is called inside the crontab system:. 10 * * * * /path/to/script 2 &1 & /dev/null /path/to/cronmailer. For some reason, another options just started to work. Not sure what I did wrong the first time I tried it. View other posts by Bert.