Author Archives: José María Ruiz

We started the week expecting to publish one David Foster Wallace post. Then, because of the 50th birthday celebration, it turned into two. And now three. We spent some time tracking down free DFW stories and essays available on the web, and … Continue reading →

To grasp the difference between today’s plutocrats and the hereditary elite, who (to use John Stuart Mill’s memorable phrase) “grow rich in their sleep,” one need merely glance at the events that now fill high-end social calendars. The debutante balls … Continue reading →

Check if rsyslog’s configuration has the following lines: $ModLoad imtcp $InputTCPServerRun 514 $PrivDropToUser syslog $PrivDropToGroup syslog As the user syslog cannot listen on ports below 1024 in TCP. Rsyslog will not fail and will silently run without any drawback. You … Continue reading →

In http://tarbox.org/, like: Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats — Howard Aiken, IBM engineer  

Add the following two lines: set -x export PS4=’$LINENO ‘ And you will get the line number and the text of each executed line 🙂

GNU parallel seems to not work properly in Ubuntu: bash$ seq 10 | parallel echo {} bash$ Where are my numbers? For fixing this «problem» (misconfiguration will be a better description) you need to comment an option that is implicit … Continue reading →