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Grepping Hell

Icon Written by tig on March 10, 2010 – 11:37 am

Well that was a tad embarrassing I thought I had lost the ability to grep. All I wanted to do was find any instances of jt1.name in files in the current directory, simple I thought :
grep jt1.name *
Nope
That returned loads of hits that didn’t match at all eg :

modules/UpgradeWizard/commit.php:$from_dir = clean_path(remove_file_extension($install_file) [...]



Cisco Standard Answers

Icon Written by tig on March 4, 2010 – 5:43 pm

Developed by Tommeh and myself on #staffslug on irc.freenode.org
# 1: ”You probably need a new IOS”
# 2: “It’s a feature”
# 3: “That hardware isn’t supported on your platform”
# 4: “That hardware is about to go EOL”
# 5: “That feature is not licensed on your device”



Lastminute copyrighting a colour?

Icon Written by tig on November 12, 2008 – 1:11 pm

I am not a lawyer but I would have thought that you could only trademark something in reference to a particular aspect of your business. The lastminute website though currently reads :
lastminute.com”, “lastminute” and the colour (block of magenta) colour are all trademarks owned by Last Minute Network Limited and/or its group companies.
Erm [...]



The Vista with many apologies to E.A.Poe

Icon Written by admin on September 2, 2007 – 11:23 pm

aOne night when I was weary,and the night was cold and dreary
Over the man pages of Vim an Emacs and their cryptic lore
Whilst I slumpt on the mousemat suddenly a polling,
As some client asking for an IP address at my chamber door.
‘Tis some client, I muttered tossing an IP at the door, polling [...]



Oh noes!

Icon Written by admin on July 19, 2007 – 9:02 pm

If you don’t know why this is amusing then you probably are best not knowing
Linky to a picture on a power strip with surge protection that I bought from Sainsburys…



PAT testing….

Icon Written by admin on July 16, 2007 – 5:39 pm

Well we have someone doing PAT tests in the office and I am not sure he is paying attention, sure he refused to test my heavy duty power over Ethernet adapter (16A commando to an RJ45 :) “er you don’t plug that in do you?!?” ) but he has amusingly [...]



FREEDOM BADGERS DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS!!!111

Icon Written by admin on July 16, 2007 – 4:59 pm

I could not resist this you just know that all that bloke is going to be remembered for now is “the bloke that had to deny UK troops were releasing man eating badgers in Iraq”
Actually, I think it looks quite cute