I just found a couple cool programs called turbotail and multitail while searching for rbot using eix.

Turbotail is just like tail, but it uses dnotify instead of auto refreshing a defined number of seconds.  I always thought it was kind of silly to keep refreshing the screen searching for new content with tail.  Turbotail just sits there until the kernel notifies of a change in the file that you are tail’ing and then it updates what you see.

Multitail looks like a VERY robust way of viewing multiple files.  It can tail any number of files and supports text filtering and even syntax highlighting.

Turbotail works great, but unfortunately multitail crashes when I try to run it from my Yakuake console.  I get this:

--*- multitail 5.2.0 (C) 2003-2007 by folkert@vanheusden.com -*--
 
A problem occured at line 511 in function mynewwin (from file term.c):
 
Failed to create window with dimensions 55x9 at offset -27,-4 (terminal size: 167,19)

Seems to work just fine from a regular console though.  It will take me a while to actually learn all of the features of multitail.

After a while of looking for a new job, I finally got a new job. Well, actually, I’ve been working my new job for about 3 months now. So… I guess it’s not really a new job anymore.

I’m now a full time Linux administrator with ExLibris. Unfortunately, Red Hat is the preferred distribution. That’s to be expected. Most business want to make sure they use something that’s proven and has a clear line of support.

The new job is in Des Plaines, Il, which means I’ll have to sell my house and move a little closer. So far, the job seems pretty good. It’s doing something I like and the people are nice, and most of them seem pretty smart.

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I’m glad this was posted on Digg. I found it a while ago and completely forgot about it. There is really a lot of good information there, especially some good information about distributed computing.

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In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. …

There are some very nice techniques here. Item #43 is very cool. It might come in handy for a site I’m currently working on.

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I hate Valentine’s day. It’s just another crap ’so-called’ holiday invented by the greeting card companies. When I was a kid, Valentine’s day was a day that you gave a little something to your significant other and that was it. Nowadays, it seems every female thinks that she is supposed to get something from every male person she knows.

Hmm… So the site was down for about a week while I waited for a paycheck to pay the server bill. Jeez, paying bills just sucks.

You know, the more I look at this site, the more I don’t like the look of it. A while back, I thought this was a nice template to use for the site, but now it just looks cluttered and very disorganized.

All I have to do now is find some free time to get things looking better.

There’s a wiki article that attempts to consolidate and explain a lot of the information found on the forums about the current status of various things at Gentoo.  If you haven’t yet, take a look at it and contribute.

For those of you whom haven’t subscribed to the gentoo-nfp mailing list, Alec Warner (aka antarus) just sent an informative email that explains a little more about what is going on with the foundation status. He also requests for suggestions on how to proceed regarding the foundation status.

There are a number of folks working on this issue; this thread is an
attempt to move conversations off of gentoo-core (internal only) and
onto gentoo-ftp (a more public list).

Renat is currently working on getting our expired New Mexico filings
so he can show them to some lawyers he knows in order to get some
recent advice on how we could proceed.

See [1] for more info.

There has been talk internally about whether accepting Daniel’s offer
is a good idea. I think the only conclusion we can really draw at
this point is that the timeframe alloted is currently too short to
make a good choice in the matter. Some people want to vote, others
want more details regarding Daniel’s plans, etc.

I believe there are a group of folks working to formulate the
necessary communique to Daniel to get their concerns addressed (I’m
not going to list them here or leak the contents of the request but I
will say it is going on).

A number of folks have volunteered to get the Foundation back in order
should Daniel not grant a time extension or should the existing
Trustees reject his request.

I want to try to make the point of this thread clear; I’m trying to
keep the general community informed about the internal progress of
what is going on. I’d appreciate useful feedback about how we could
proceed on the matter.

The intention of this list is to be about the non-profit foundation;
if you have problems with the distribution itself or other technical
matters, please direct them to gentoo-dev or gentoo-project.

Thanks,

-Alec

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205905

There’s a poll in the Gentoo forums regarding Daniel Robbins offer today to help get Gentoo Linux back on it’s feet. Gentoo is in serious need of a leader that is not afraid to take action. Please follow the link and vote yes.

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I just saw that Daniel posted an offer to help Gentoo in it’s time of need.  I really hope that the trustees and council agree and choose to help.