Month: September 2010

Using vi as a hex editor – linux instead

I’ve been playing around with Voldemort recently for a robust enormous datastore at Esped.com.  One of the frustrating things I found in getting into it was the lack of complete existing code samples, so I thought I’d contribute one to the community. This is a bit more than simple put/get because I need versioning associated…

I seem to always get this backwards, so I’m writing it down as a mnemonic.  The correct ln syntax is ln <target> <linkname> e.g. ln /usr/bin/shutdown shutdown