5
Apr
2009
Redoing my Computers
So, a few weeks ago I decided it was time to change my software setup. At the time I had the Windows 7 beta running on my desktop and laptop and FreeBSD running on my server. I switched it up by putting OS X back on my laptop (yay hackintosh!) and this time with sound working.
I also brought my server into my room and have started using it for TV and such. I realized that it was being used almost exclusively for storage and since it had a lot more power than that I wanted to use it for something else. That combined with my problem with a few games not liking dual-monitors made me recommission it as a Debian box which is sitting in my room now. Whenever I’m playing games or other things on my desktop I use that box for TV. Apart from that it still serves the exact same purpose as before, but it’s also easier to maintain with Debian.
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27
May
2008
Shell script to extract isos from a folder
I had to do this repeatedly manually at work so it took me like 2 minutes to make my first script to do it for me. It was horribly messy and looked something this:
for x in $(ls -1 .); do
mount -t iso9660 -o loop $x temp/;
cp -r temp/* .;
umount temp/;
done;
Which did the job but was horribly messing on doing it more than once with tons of errors and stuff.
When I came home I decided to make it much better. I even included how long it takes to do the whole process, which was harder than the process itself.
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