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Escaping a pipe inside xargs
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I’ve got a nasty dose of bashfail this morning. I had a bash one-liner which generated a list of strings. I needed to iterate over that list in xargs, but the command in xargs was itself a dirty multi-command one-liner :
crazy | stuff | xargs -i {} this {} | that {} (with this and [...]
iPhone battery life
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The iPhone is the best portable computer I have ever owned, in every regard but one – the battery life for me was shockingly bad. When it reached the point where I could not go a full day without charge, I decided that I would have to return the device, because it was not useful [...]
My 2008 in review.
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I thought it might be nice to do a review of my 2008.
January I started the year talking at UKNOF, about peering in Europe. It was great to demonstrate how the open culture to interconnect, inexpensive mechanisms, and low barriers to entry, improved the internet for all users in Europe, and demonstrate also that at [...]
Internet TV is ace
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Lots of people have been telling me that IP delivered video will be big. For a long time, I have disagreed because innovations like the PVR (and therefore simple timeshifting) and the coming of age of multiplexing (and therefore multi channel tv) have expanded choice and allowed me to fit good TV that I like [...]
Might Xen die?
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I’m somewhat worried about the future of Xen. I’ve spent the last few years being worried about the future of Xen, because it’s been a project that’s been relatively encumbered by politics. So much so that (and in fairness, partly because) the Linux kernel developers have been keen to work on their own virtualisation projects.
I [...]
Internationalisation of DNS continues
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Like most original internet standards, the DNS was designed to initially suit the needs of any section of the world that could communicate using 7-bit ASCII and Latin character sets. Then the internet became really popular. Everywhere. The DNS had to evolve to cope with naming schemes that came from alphabets all [...]
Vodafone’s legal challenge to fast porting.
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I tried to open some dialogue with colleague members of the ITSPA about Vodafone’s legal challenge to Ofcom’s two-hour number port ruling. Instead I got a number of offlist replies suggesting Vodafone’s challenge is still news to many in the industry.
Today, if you want to port your number from one service provider to another, it [...]
Text editors to be placed on endangered species list
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When men were men and text was text, I could open a text editor, then put some, err, text in, and then save it as text. Then Apple released Leopard, the latest version of their operating system which shipped with the usual text editor (called Text Edit). And it doesn’t let me save [...]
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