Daily Archives: August 3, 2008

Seeing Stars

August 3, 2008 – 3:08 pm

Between the Google Reader and del.icio.us, my saved bookmarks are spiralling out of control yet again.
I shame-facedly went to the Google Reader, as I detailed here. In spite of my aversion to the Google, it has worked well. Too well. The “add star” feature is just too handy, and I use it [...]

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Using the New Tool

August 3, 2008 – 1:21 pm

Just downloaded HotSSH, a Gnome front-end for OpenSSH, and the associated md5 checksum file.
A quick
cfv -t md5 -f hotssh-0.2.5.md5sum hotssh-0.2.5.tar.gz
and I validated my download. Much better method than doing an md5sum myself and then squinting to compare checksums.
-k-

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Command of the Day

August 3, 2008 – 12:56 pm

From my Fedora Rawhide feed, cfv, a nifty md5/sha1/a_host_of_others checksum validator and generator. cfv can recurse directories, generating or validating checksums at will.
There are so manny command line options that I’m having difficulty absorbing it all right now. Look at this:
[knelson@gypsy ~]$ cfv –help
cfv v1.18.2 - Copyright (C) 2000-2008 Matthew Mueller - GPL [...]

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