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Tracy, CA: Home of the Millennium Falcons
Millenium High School is in Tracy, CA and their mascot is the Falcon. They are the Millenium Falcons [http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/millennium-falcons-%28tracy,ca%29/home.htm] .
John Westlund
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Maze Runner
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002QE3CTY/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002QE3CTY&linkCode=as2&tag=xen02-20] Coming to a movie theater near you. The Maze Runner [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002QE3CTY/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&
RPM
Use yum to Only Install Security Relevant Fixes
If you use yum to manage your server's packages and you're trying to keep things stable then only installing security relevant fixes makes a lot of sense. The yum-plugin-security package adds a plugin that makes keeping track of these things a snap: yum -y install yum-plugin-security Then you can list
MySQL
Change a Tables Default Sort Order in MySQL
When I say "default" what I mean is the order that rows will be returned if you provide no other explicit ordering via your SQL. Usually this order is just by when a row was inserted into the table. If INSERT's and DELETE's have jumbled a nicely ordered table you
Perl
Loop through Multiple Arrays in Perl at the Same Time
Say you have more than one array that you want to loop through at the same time, pulling out the same row index from each per cycle through the loop. One way would need to loop over each index number: for my $I (0 .. $#arrayA) { my $firstVal = $arrayA[$I]; my
CLI
Simple CLI Based Timer Alias
Here's a quick alias that will start up a timer and report the total time after a control-C. alias timer='which banner>/dev/null 2>&1;[ $? -eq 0 ]&&c=banner||c=echo;export ts=$(date +%s);p='\''$(date -u -d @"$(($(date +%s)-$ts))" +"%H.%M.%S")'\
OSX
Speed Up Terminal Tab/Window Load Time on OSX
Terminal uses /usr/bin/login to launch new shells, by default this prints out the last login time and the contents of /etc/motd. To look up the last login time login searches through the ASL (Apple System Log) database in /var/log/asl/ . These log files can be very
CLI
Setup a Remote Shell over ICMP (ping)
There may be a tighter way to accomplish this, but these are the basic steps for setting up a remote shell over ICMP. remote First, on the remote system we setup some named pipes, and attach them to the STDIN and STDOUT (we also direct STDERR to STDIN) of a
OSX
Switching from MacPorts to Homebrew
Decided I'd give Homebrew [http://brew.sh] a try - here's the process I used to switch over. Make a list of your ports for reference later: port installed > ports.txt Might be worth going through that list, clear out the dependency ports you can identify and leave a list
Search Mac Outlook 2011 Mail with Raw Queries
You can gain a lot of control over searching your mail by using "Raw Queries" passed straight to the Spotlight Engine. To input a "Raw Query" go to "Advanced Find" - Shift-Command F. And switch the Query Type on the left side of the input box to "Raw Query", it's
Best Practices
Expand Shortened URLs
Here's a requested article. Have you ever run into a shortened URL and have no idea where on the World Wide Web it will take you? There are URL expansion services that will untangle the web of possible redirects and show you ultimately where the shortened URL will take you:
CLI
Find IPs Accessing your Site Most
List IPs that have made requests to an Apache server in ascending order based on the number of requests. { cat /var/log/httpd/access.log!(*.gz) & gzip -dc /var/log/httpd/access.log.*.gz; } \ | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 337 8.29.198.25