Archive for July, 2010

Listing large files in a directory hierarchy

rom time to time it can be necessary to free up space on a file system. A quick way to do this is to create a list of large files in a directory hierarchy.
The following example will look for files in a directory hierarchy and list files, that has a file size of more than [...]

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Removing black borders around movies

lack borders around movies and movie clips is a huge problem on the internet. Black borders is a result of video editing and bad handling of resolutions and aspect ratios, such as 16:9 and 4:3.
Removing black borders can be done with a video editor, such as FFmpeg, which is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, [...]

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System Administrator Appreciation Day

riday 30 of July is the 11th System Administrator Appreciation Day.
A system administrator is a person, that is employed to maintain and operate a computer network system. The duties include installing, supporting and maintaining computer, client and server systems. The duties include planning for, and responding to, service outages and other problems. The duties include [...]

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Configuring the command line interpreter prompt

a href=”http://www.bash.org”>The GNU Bourne-Again SHell (bash) is the command line interpreter, that executes commands from the standard input, such as keyboard, or from a file, such as a automated script. It is used in many operating systems, such as Ubuntu.
In the following example, the default command line prompt for a user on an Ubuntu operating [...]

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