finding big files

# du -a /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10
# du -ks /var | sort -n -r | head -n 10

Sidewiki feedback: it needs a better editor

My feedback:

Give Sidewiki an editor like Blogger's. Being able to put in real links instead of raw urls would be very helpful. Otherwise, brilliant product. Maybe one of the most important to date. Thanks.

in reference to: Share Toolbar feedback - Toolbar Help (view on Google Sidewiki)

Sidewiki proofreading

Sidewiki is a very powerful tool Google launched at the end of September, 2009. It essentially allows you to comment on any page on the web. Very powerful tool. In addition, it allows you to cross-post to your blogger blogs. Just make sure you proof your sidewiki entry. Grammer and spelling mistakes go right along with the good stuff and get replicated to all the blogs (of yours) that you specify on your initial sidewiki post. Once you push the button, you have to fix all your errors on the individual blogs. What a pain. It's worth the trouble to re-read it one more time. Your extra efforts will be helpful to others.

Don't forget to turn on Email Post links in Blogger

While you won't be able to see the page referenced (it's for the settings for my blog), your blogger-based blog setting is going to have the same thing. Maybe other will too. If you don't turn the Email Post links on, your visitors will have a more difficult time sending your post to friends and associates. Why is it off by default? I have no idea.
in reference to: Blogger: Glutathione (GSH) - Basic Settings (view on Google Sidewiki)

regular expression for cleaning up option list from page source (on Forbes.com)

Using Ctrl-F in OpenOffice.org, search for:

([:alpha:]|-)+\.html">

Regular expressions are very helpful for automating text editing.

mysql startup on web99

[steward@web99 etc]$ mysqld_safe --defaults-file=~/webapps/mysql5_1_38/etc/my.cnf &

postgresql configure parameters

[steward@web99 postgresql-8.4.1]$ ./configure --prefix=/home/steward/webapps/postgresql/ --with-pgport=22190 --with-perl --with-python --with-tcl