Bash shortcuts
Ctrl-a -> go to the start of command line
Ctrl-e -> go to the end of command line
Ctrl-p -> previous command in history
Ctrl-n -> next command in history
Ctrl-f -> next character in command line
Ctrl-b -> previous character in command line
Ctrl-r -> reverse search in history file
Ctrl-d -> delete current character
Ctrl-k -> delete from the prompt to the end of command line
Ctrl-_ -> undo (yes, but limited)
Meta-< -> go to beginning of history file
Meta-> -> go to end of history file
Meta-f -> go to next word in command line
Meta-b -> go to previous word in command line
Update regarding DNS and Views mystery - solved
So a while a go I had a DNS issue that stumped me. A master nameserver transferring an updated zone to a slave successfully, but queries to the slave server not reflecting the change!
Finally I worked it out. We were implementing views, and we didn't need to be, as our use case was not a case of using different zone files for the same zone and responding accordingly with differing results depending on the requestor client and which acl it matched.
Huawei E160G wireless USB on Three with Debian Lenny
I bought a 3 Prepaid mobile broadband Internet USB key modem so that I'm able to hook my eeePC up to the net wherever I am.. sometimes one is in between source and destination and needs to re-attach screen and fix a problem that Nagios has alerted one to :)
100 happy days as a Linode customer
Props to Linode, who provide Xen virtual private servers (one of which this site is hosted on).
I just ticked over 100 days of uptime, and thus of being a Linode customer. They really are a fantastic bunch. The community is great, the value for money is outstanding, and the features (such as out-of-band console access to your VPS) are innovative.
End shameless plug! But thanks guys :)
Blog updates now going out through my Migroblog Laconica (and thus through to Twitter)
Since I wrote a Howto for installing Laconica on Debian Lenny, I thought I'd demonstrate that it works :)
