April 2005 Archives

To figure out why you can't unmount a busy directory, try this:

fuser /mnt/share

You'll get back the process ID of the responsible party.

This is embarrassing. For years I've extracted .tar.bz2 files by the two-step "bunzip foo.tar.bz2 && tar xf foo.tar" method, but it was annoying that tar didn't know what to do with .bz2 archives and thus wasn't as convenient as "tar xzf foo.tar.gz." Well, last night I discovered tar's -j option, which does the same thing for bzipped archives as -z does for gzipped archives. Hooray!

If you are having trouble updating the firmware on your Buffalo Linkstation or Kuro Box using Windows XP, try turning off your computer's firewall. The setup program appears to use UDP in both directions, possibly sending and receiving on different ports, and the default settings of the XP firewall interfere with the traffic. I'm sure the setup program warns you somewhere to do this, but if you're like me, you typically ignore all those warnings. Well, this time they mean it.

Soldier killed in Iraq to get Medal of Honor

(since fixed... still cached in Bloglines)