Fubaredness Is Contagious

My recent experiments with messaging for a distributed application led to a realization that I would like to share with you in this post. It’s not an earth shaking discovery but you may still find it interesting.
Do you remember an old Unix command to create tape backups called dump? Remember its concept of levels? To [...]

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Shell was among the first things I got familiar with when I was introduced to Linux. It’s not a typical programming language, primarily due to lack of easy-to-use high-level data structures such as hashes and arrays (anticipating your objection to this – note I said “easy-to-use”). This may explain why I often get funny looks [...]

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By accident, today I discovered an easy way how to determine how long ago your EC2 instance was started. Note that uptime shows time since last reboot, so it’s not what we get here. Here is a bash implementation.

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