Hardy heron – first impressions

He he – finally got Ubuntu Hardy heron beta on my home and work laptop. first impressions below: 1. Wubi install from within windows is easy and works great. If after setting up so many boxes, I can go on and on about it, I’m sure that its great help for anyone who’s on Windoze. [...]

Gnuplot, dstat – easy graphing on Linux

Recently, started fiddling around with how to monitor and graph performance data on linux boxes. Other than the usual tools like top and vmstat, which are either interactive (top) or too textual to do anything much. First off, vmstat, doesnt lend itself well to graphing without additional scripts to lay out the data so tools [...]

Working with huge XML files – tools of the trade.

XMLStarlet is great for slicing and dicing huge XML files. Had a run in recently – had a 80 Mb XML file in a single line . Guess what, most editors that I tried balked and fell over. This was on a 2Gig Core2 Duo machine. XMLSpy, vi, emacs, notepad++ all died – and trying [...]