December 2009

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history with timestamps

December 18, 2009 in aside, computers by peter | No comments

The other day I wanted to know when I had done something in my shell history, I asked on irc, and dre^ answered -> fc -d for zsh

Now I find myself looking at fc -l -d even when I don’t really need timestamps :-)

% fc -l -d
[snip]
  356  14:56  vim sem.c
  357  18:09  gmake
  358  18:10  vim buffer.c

It is possible to get similar behavior with bash:

$ HISTTIMEFORMAT="%T " history 3
 1386  09:36:54 grep -rl afio .
 1387  09:37:55 vim ChangeLog
 1388  12:56:57 HISTTIMEFORMAT="%T " history 3

Where HISTTIMEFORMAT uses an strftime string.

Yet another useless bit of knowledge!

Moved to prgmr.com

December 14, 2009 in Uncategorized by peter | No comments

For nearly 9 years this site has been hosted at pair.com, and I have had no problems there. Any time I have contacted pair support, I have had excellent response, they host everything on FreeBSD, and have, in the past, made monetary contributions to the FreeBSD project. They seem to be very professional, and uptime has been fantastic.

I have become more and more unhappy with their pricing though. I have been using pairs Advanced account, which provides 1.5GB of disk space and 80GB/month bandwidth, and paying $20/month for it. A few years ago pair introduced a pairlite service which would have suited my needs better, but I had already been a customer for years, and moving was harder than doing nothing, so I did nothing :)

I kept an eye on webhost pricing though, and finally my stinginess exceeded my laziness, and I decided to move. I looked at dreamhost, tried a trial, liked it, but wanted more control, so I began to look for a VPS. Eventually I stumbled on Prgmr.com. I don’t care if uptime is a little lower than it has been, it’s only a blog, a collection of random crap, and email. Prgmr is cheap, dirt cheap. For my same $20, I get a VPS with 22GB of disk space, 1024MB of memory, and 160GB/month bandwidth. Of course, it is no longer managed hosting, it is entirely DIY hosting. And that’s just fine :)

Not everything is moved to prgmr yet, web site is moved, so is DNS, email not yet. Will move that in a few days, and then finally cancel my account with pair.