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Why doesn't pushd popd work in my Ubuntu shell script?

2008.06.26 Thu 9:42 P GMT-07
I'm in the process of moving over to my new laptop. I run into an issue where a shell script (that worked under gentoo) now no longer works. Here's the error foo.sh: 18: pushd: not found Since I'm running this as sh foo.sh, I turn on debugging wit
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New lappy, Lenovo T61p (linux edition)

2008.06.26 Thu 9:30 P GMT-07
My trusty r52 switches between a state of 100-200 free megs of memory and no memory on the 40 gig hard drive. Rather than investing in an expensive IBM harddrive (I've heard the BIOS on my machine won't take normal OEM drives), I got a new computer.
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The good and bad of Asus EEE

2008.01.08 Tue 10:54 A GMT-07
Like many other nerds, my wife got an Asus EEE for Christmas. (ok she isn't a nerd but her husband is). (Ok, maybe she is a nerd since I've been forcing her to using Linux for so long that she doesn't mind too much anymore). The machine is solidly
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OSCON 2007 (July 25)

2007.07.25 Wed 7:58 P GMT-07
I arrived in Portland last night for OSCON. From a conference standpoint, it feels very similar to when I attended in 2005. The attendance hasn't grown much and the exhibition hall is about the same size. Though there appear to be a few more "comm
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Pycon2007 observations and thoughts

2007.02.27 Tue 9:56 A GMT-07
They say you know a foreign language pretty well when you start dreaming in it. It's a pretty surreal experience at first. Well, what about when you dream that you are sitting listening to conference talks and the conference is over? (Which happen
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Tales of a real life switcher

2006.11.02 Thu 9:36 A GMT-07
I assume most have seen the Apple switch ads. So being the dork I was, I wondered what a Linux person would look like, if he was invited to the meeting of this odd twosome. Well after two or three years of trying with one person I'm finally going t
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mounting remote filesystems using sshfs on ubuntu

2006.09.27 Wed 4:46 P GMT-07
Here's a quick command line version based on this blog entry, but containing some steps that it doesn't cover. (I've done this twice in the past month or so, so I thought I'd share the joy) SSHFS is an adaption of FUSE. FUSE, for those who don't
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Dude, where's my umbilical cord? (sis900 ethernet not working)

2006.08.29 Tue 8:59 A GMT-07
I seem to have no end of networking issues recently. Last night, Andrea had to reboot an Acer 5003 laptop to do some online banking in Internet Explorer. The machine hibernated. When I rebooted in Linux this morning, the ethernet failed to work.

Bad memory? Ubuntu (memtest86) to the rescue...

2006.07.28 Fri 7:59 A GMT-07
My gentoo desktop machine has been acting flakey recently. Apps stop responding, network inconsistent. Sounds like a hardware problem. So I figured I would check my memory. Memtest86 to the rescue. Thanks to Ubuntu I had a live cd with memtest86
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