Earth Hour Malaysia 2009 is one day away. Mother earth has a fever and it’s been going up, not sure how much longer she’ll last. We are the aibiotics but somehow forgotten our purpose. It’s time to step up and own up to our purpose on planet earth. Start with Earth Hour…
The Earth Hour Malaysia portal / website earthhour.org.my is currently unreachable. Looks like they are moving to a larger hosting provider.Last minute rush to pledge causing the spike I guess. Follow the progress on their twitter. Update: The site’s back up but it’s a stripped down version.
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Want to know how long your Linux box has been up for? Simple, just run the “uptime” command and you will be rewarded with the answer plus a bit more. 8:58pm up 19:54, 1 user, load average: 0.47, 0.62, 0.35 Above is the typical reply from uptime. On the left is the current time, followed by the system’s uptime, logged in users and finally the system’s load average. Sample output; ...
“$$” is a useful Linux variable you could use in your script to get it’s PID. The “$$” variable always holds the PID of the executing process. Why do you need it? Maybe to check if the script is already running? This is what I normally use it for. Sample Script; #!/bin/bash<br /> echo "My PID is $$"<br /> sleep 2 Sample Output; [root@keke ~]# ./test1.sh<br /> My PID is 8909