grep and regular expression revisited

Yesterday, while helping Laiq figure out the pattern he wanted to match against his data set, I bumped into grep’s odd behaviour with respect to regular expressions. Later that day, I went over the man page for grep at length to find out why grep behaved differently than I expected it to.
In the man [...]

When it is not fun, move on!

The following is an excerpt from Richard Branson’s “Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons In Life”.
    As soon as something stops being fun, I think it is time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live. I [...]

Venting

Venting. Junaid earnestly thinks that it accurately describes me. I think in some ways (or a lot of ways, depending on where you’re coming from) it does!

Would you like to step out of the car, please?

Imagine having friends in the car driving to a far-off diner, finding a safe spot to park the car what may appear to be little more than five minutes walk away from the diner hoping to avoid the traffic police from subsequently towing the car away (otherwise eventually leaving you with no other option but [...]

VMware, 64-bit processors, and Virtualisation Technology

Attempts to set up a 64-bit guest operating system using VMware workstation on a 64-bit Intel processor machine running Windows 2003 R2 Standard 64-bit Edition failed miserably this past week at work. As Chaz6 and larstr subsequently pointed out in #vmware on irc.freenode.net, the particular Intel processor in the machine being used does not [...]