This afternoon, whilst trying to clear abit of disk space on my Debian box, I found I have a crontab running that logs everytime it runs. There are about 100 000 logs already.

The file names are maintenance.php.4723, maintenance.php.4724 etc.

So I just quickly ran the command

rm maintenance.php.*

Then it prompted me with the error

/bin/rm: Argument list too long

But why, I’m sure I’ve used this many time before and sure it should work.

So again, “Google is my friend” and I found a blog post where the same problem was experienced by this guy in 2004 already.

His solution involved piping the results of a find to rm one by one.

Use find to pipe all the matching files to rm, one at a time.

find . -name ‘maintenance.php*’ | xargs rm

written by Arné

I’m planning to attend the next 27 Dinner in Johannesburg with the next one coming up the 27th of May 2008. I probably would have gone earlier, but some strange reason I thought is was only in Cape Town some time ago when I heard people talking about it.

This will be my very first time at such an event, and I’m already taking two people with me that I feel will be a great asset taking with, as they’ve got lots of ideas floating around, and this would only do them good getting those ideas out and getting in touch with other people in the industry.

Hope to meet the faces behind the sites and innovations. See you there!

written by Arné

I heard on the 702 news this morning that “Vernon Koekemoer” has been found, he wrote a letter to The Star newspaper stating that he is a real person but he does not want to come out public yet.

Google “Vernon Koekemoer”

UPDATE: Confirmation that it’s not fake…

written by Arné

Star Wars - Imperial March by Lego :-/

written by Arné

Just some interesting stats on this blogs usage, the breakdown of Browsers used to browse this blog.

36.42%    Mozilla/5.0
15.13%    MSIE 6.0
14.98%    MSIE 7.0
3.97%    Googlebot/2.1
3.64%    Yahoo! Slurp
1.98%    msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
As you can see that Internet Explorer takes roughly 30% of the cake whereas Firefox is taking 36%, so Firefox is still the winner!

written by Arné