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Comment on “Be transparent. Share your work constantly. Solicit feedback. Appreciate critiques.” by Rob’s Higher Ed BI Blog » Protracting Peers

Rob’s Higher Ed BI Blog » Protracting Peers — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:25:15 +0000

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Comment on Use Blackle and Save Energy? by Rob Hale

Rob Hale — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:54:17 +0000

It is a good message and I’m happy to be convinced. Not sure how readable the search results are though and of course if people print the black results then I suspect the increased toner usage will chew a bit of indirect energy. Did you read the referenced academic paper (Roberson et al)? Crikey.

Comment on ‘History’cal Research by David Symons

David Symons — Mon, 05 May 2008 23:22:16 +0000

Thanks Jon,

I’ve fixed the quotes by editing the post and changing them to the equivalent HTML codes (' and ").

doit is a little script I’ve written to help with moving content off the old webserver. It takes a pagename and:

- greps the httpd.conf to reveal any reverse proxying of that page;

- opens the page from the old and new webservers for a visual comparison; and

- wget’s the content from the old and new servers then diff’s them - as another comparison.

BTW, the use of zgrep is related - I’ve been searching through a lot of apache logs!

Oh yes, and the idea isn’t mine I got it from http://bethesignal.org/blog/2008/04/10/shell-history-stats/ .

Comment on ‘History’cal Research by jburne5

jburne5 — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:16:13 +0000

Nice idea. The single and double quotes get changed to opening and closing quotes by WordPress so you have to change them back for the script to work.

I would prefer to use “less” rather than “head” as the last command so you can go as far down the sorted list as you want to.

What does your script “doit” do?