A simple matter of…

Techie one this. I wanted to do this:

 tail -f filename | awk '{ ...; exit}'

However this didn’t work - originally I thought awk had the pipe open, but it turned out that actually it was the tail hanging around and not dying (why it doesn’t acknowledge the SIGPIPE that I think it’ll [...]

Well, I’ve bought a PVR - selected on Alan’s advice. Overall I’m pretty happy, it was always going to be a tradeoff between not having to spend much time on it and non-ideal behaviour.
The new firmware will fix up some of the missing features (such as the fact that once you have started a [...]

Well I think it’s about time I started looking for a new PC now that

In case it bugs anyone else, Debian’s sudo package has changed its behaviour recently. Namely when I do “sudo su” it behaves as if I’ve done “sudo su -” - breaking all X-windows sessions and changing my current path.
I don’t like this behaviour, so I have added this into /etc/sudoers:

Defaults env_keep+="*"

This is aimed fair and square at Nokia, but applies to many other companies too. I’ve been lucky enough to get a new Nokia E60. It has built-in wifi access, but whilst surfing the web is all well and good, it’s tricky from a phone. The _real_ use is for internet telephony [...]