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Well, today I just did not believe my eyes.

I was just bringing up a new webmail host when I noticed Apache throwing an 500 internal server error at me.
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This article should have been published already last month, unfortunately the draft was left forgotten for a while in my mailbox.

As some may remember I published two articles on how to setup GEOM disk mirroring on alpha and sparc earlier this year. These articles were originally based upon Ralf Engelschalls disk mirroring howto.

I had installed GEOM disk mirrors on various occasions since then, though I always felt that converting to a GEOM mirror like that involved too much work.

So I went on to find a better and faster way to achieve the task and I found one.
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A late night experience, thank good I got it fixed right away…
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While I’m usually living on the Unix side of live, I sometimes happen to find myself again in the Windows world.

Some may say this is blasphemy, a decent unix admin would never bother in doing Windows, deny the open source idea, be such a scumbag, blablablabla…

But let me tell you one thing: Windows is not that bad after all. Honestly.
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Imagine you have a directory with thousands of text files, each of which containing some keywords to be replaced.

While there’s a lot of tools out there allowing you to find and replace strings in text files, there’s always a goog reason to use the tools that you already have.

The following snippet uses find in combination with perl to achieve the task:
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