Archive for September, 2011

When developing a web application and quickly iterating, it’s imperative that you can quickly test changes on a multitude of browsers and platforms. If you want coverage on IE6-9, the latest Chrome, the latest Safari, the latest Firefox, and maybe the FF 3.6+ branch, you will need several machines. Fortunately, they can be virtual, and [...]

I was recently copying some very large files from one remote machine to another. However, I had forgotten to use the nohup command and would need to leave before the transfer finished. Simple solution:
1) Suspend the process Ctrl+z
2) Background it bg
3) jobs to find the number to …
4) disown
Another problem that I ran up against [...]