TLER and MD Arrays

TLER is the Western Digital “feature” for making a hard drive give up trying to read/write before it normally would. This can be useful in a RAID environment in that…

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Bash Snippet: URL Encoding

One approach would be to encode everything, but the approach I took was to just encode things I thought might be problematic to pass over the query string. URL (a.k.a…

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Bash Snippet: Calculating the Distance Between 2 Coordinates

I have a tendency to do things in bash that I’d probably be better off doing in perl or python. Although bash may have super powers, math is not one…

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Bash Snippet: HTML &#code; decoder

A short and simple way to decode HTML decimal (and hex) character codes in bash. On a side note, I’m totally bummed that the builtin ‘printf’ does decimal to hexadecimal…

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