if I want to do a “du” command, and want to exclude certain folders (like /mnt in my case) I would run this while at root level, in the root folder.
#du -hs –exclude=’mnt’ *
du –exclude
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Subgenres/Styles to use
In the music database parser I’m writing, I need to decide on what sub-genres/style will be used to compite the band list:
So far:
Rhythmic Noise, EBM, Electro, Synth-pop, Industrial, Darkwave,
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Book summary : The 4 hour work week
Just came across a great summary of “The 4 hour work week” book by Tim Ferriss.
http://davidseah.com/2007/04/a-review-of-tim-ferriss-the-4-hour-work-week/
While on the subject of summaries, came across www.wikisummaries.org where book summaries are posted. Interesting concept.
Adding remote extension to a ST-E2 Flash commander
The need to control an off camera flash came about a while back. I purchases an hotshoe extension cable (YONGNUO FC-681) which allowed me to handhold and aim the flash by hand. In itself the cable worked great, however I needed the AF assist feature that the flash provides and aligning the AF assist beam of the flash by hand is next to impossible while looking through the camera’s viewfinder.
So I bought a YONGNUO ST-E2 wireless controller for its AF assist light and in itself works great, but doesn’t control my flash very well in E-TTL mode. Further to that, since the ST-E2 control is done by optical communication, I am afraid that even if a new flash will be able to be controlled by the ST-E2, outside or otherwise dark environments with black walls there may not be much/enough light reflected to be able to trigger and communicate with flashes that are placed behind the camera.
So I decided to combine the E-TTL hotshoe extension cable with the ST-E2 controller. With this setup I get the AF assist beam of the ST-E2 and am able to E-TTL command the flash where ever it may be pointing.
Brief description of the project: I chopped off the hotshoe connector cable at one and, and soldered the wires into the ST-E2 right as they come off the hotshoe.
Multizone Heating
I’d like to set something up for my home to better/more evenly control the temperature distribution between all my rooms.
http://diy-zoning.sourceforge.net/index.html
http://www.homeclimatecontrol.com
http://www.navitron.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5687.0
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Undelete files on the UnRAID server
After doing some searching, came across this Wiki entry on the UnRAID site.
A step by step instruction on what to do is found on the UnRAID forum in this thread. Look at post #3.
The recovered data is in the lost+found folder. To access it you’ll need to telnet to the unraid machine, and look in /mnt/diskX (diskX is the drive that you are recovering from) and there will be a lost+found folder. I moved it to a user share, so I can sort through it from the network.
Using Suse Studio appliances
I had tried using Suse Studio appliances a while back, and didn’t have much luck with it. That was over a year ago, and honestly, I don’t remember exactly why I didn’t like it, or couldn’t get it working. I think it may have had something to do with the fact that I could not boot one of those appliances in xen or xenserver (whatever I was running at the time)
Anyway, it seems like there may be home. I came back to visit the site today, and did a bit of digging, and it seems there may be a simple way to convert the xen appliance into a Cirtix XenServer appliance. Get the python script and read the how-to here.
I will have to give this a go.
UPDATE: So I gave it a go.
After some struggling, I can report success. I have managed to get a xen vm created by suse studio to run in Citrix’s XenServer, using the script mentioned earlier.
Once the xva file is imported into xenserver (throught xen center) I need to add “console=ttyS0 xencons=ttyS barrier=off” to the Properties > Startup options of the VM.
Currently I’m refining the one SqueezeCenter appliance VM.