Month: June 2005

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Speed doesn’t kill

There is an excellent article in Cyprus Mail by Barry Faulkner. Barry explains why thinking that speed driving kills by itself is wrong. He says all the same things I was telling for years now. The only difference is that he is way more an experienced driver than I am. He was a law enforcement officer for 11 years and trainer for traffic police officers for 16 years.

The article also mentions a RoADS website which promotes safe and defensive driving on Cyprus roads. It mentions regular meetings and courses – something that I have been passively looking for for some time now.

Finally!

Searching for packages with apt

Apparently, it is possible to search for packages with apt. Here is it works:

apt-cache search mplayer

Masks are also supported. Consider the difference (package descriptions were removed for cleaner output):

[leonid@ltsp ~]$ apt-cache search lad
glade2
intltool
libglade
libglade
libglade2
libglade2-devel
pygtk2-libglade
qt-designer
Gtk-Perl
ladspa
ladspa-devel
mplayer
xine-lib

[leonid@ltsp ~]$ apt-cache search '^lad'
ladspa
ladspa-devel

Timer fix

My new office workstation was behaving very strangely. Once in a while it would slow down to a crawl and hang doing something. I checked the processlist, but nothing was going wrong. I disabled all the services. I checked my scheduled tasks. Nothing. I left it with top running, but it showed that 100% of CPU was idle and more than 500 MBytes of RAM was free. Nothing was eating up resources. Neither was there any significant network traffic. The machine wasn’t swapping or anything. Non-the-less the load average would go up as high as 4.0 or even 7.0!

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