Posts on ‘June 17th, 2009’

Iphone 3.0 OS update – initial thoughts

After waiting and hitting the Check for Updates button over and over again – at 7pm BST it finally arrived.. queue the 200+ MB download and the wait… Once downloaded the update I had to wait for it to transfer the files – then it rebooted – great stuff… until the emergency call slider appeared [...]

rm Argument list too long.. Linux Huh? moment.

I recently had a little problem when deleting a store of spam e-mails off one of my personal servers. Basically entering the standard death defying command of “rm -Rfv *” while in a directory (this will delete everything recursively – have fun), the system responded “Argument list too long” – cue the first “huh?” moment [...]