Send large files download link in email

Http://www.dropsend.com

Limited recipients and number of up and downloads on free account. But you are able to send a 2GB file with ease.

Similar to http://ngsafe.northropgrumman.com

Sent from my iPod

Performance tests with USB thumb drive and a USB sata drive

Copied 4047503360 bytes (4GB) from external SATA drive to local SSD hard drive over USB
time cp Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso ~
3:16 minutes
19.69 MB/sec


Copied same file back to external SATA over USB
cp ~/Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso /Volumes/UNTITLED/
2:45 minutes
23.39 MB/sec


Read same file from SATA drive over USB
time cat /Volumes/UNTITLED/iso-install/Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso > /dev/null
1:49 minutes
35.41 MB/sec


Read same file from SSD
time cat ~/Fedora-11-x86_64-DVD.iso > /dev/null
31 seconds
124.52 MB/sec


Copied 676411392 bytes (645MB) from external thumb to local SSD hard drive over usb
time cp /Volumes/4GB\ THUMB/KNOPPIX_V6.0.1CD-2009-02-08-EN.iso ~
42 seconds
15.36 MB/sec


Copied same file back to external SATA over USB
time cp ~/KNOPPIX_V6.0.1CD-2009-02-08-EN.iso /Volumes/4GB\ THUMB/KNOPPIX_V6.0.1CD-2009-02-08-EN.iso.2
1:24 minutes
7.68 MB/sec


Read same file from USB thumb drive
time cat /Volumes/4GB\ THUMB/KNOPPIX_V6.0.1CD-2009-02-08-EN.iso > /dev/null
31 seconds
20.81 MB/sec

Free movie editor for MAC/Linux/Windows

http://fancinematoday.com/2009/04/16/4-free-video-editing-programs-for-mac/

http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/index.html

http://www.zs4.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hyperengine/

http://www.chipersoft.com/

How to background and nohup (run after terminal close) a running process

1. run it in the foreground
2. stop it (CTRL+Z)
3. disown it so that it won't be closed when you close your shell (disown -h %jobid)
4. restart the job in the background (bg %jobid)

Youtube to ipod video converter

http://keepvid.com/

Seems to be affiliated with AVS video converter.

I save them as MP4s.

SSL References

Specifically researching how to trust a client only if they hold a specific private key.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~pkilab/pages/Using_PKI.html

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~pkilab/pages/Web_Access_Control.html

http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_howto.html

setuid and getuid program execution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid

The sticky bit on user or group causes the command to run as that user or group
chmod ug+s printid

I typically used this on the group of a directory forces the sub files/folders to be in the same group.

This is also how commands that require root level are able to be executed.

You can prevent this from happening by mounting a partition with the nosuid option.