Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

unrar All Files in Directory

By Mark Davidson on July 15th, 2010

For quite a while I have found it a pain that unrar does not allow you to extract multiple files at once.
The other day I finally figured out how to get past this. Simply use xargs with place holders.

This command will unrar all the files in the current directory and any subdirectories to the directory /home/user/directory/

find . -iname "*.rar" | xargs -i unrar x {} /home/user/directory/

Synology DS410j Review

By Mark Davidson on July 4th, 2010

In the shared house where I live for the last year been running a server for storing files and as a place to do any big downloads too. Recently we noticed are electric bill had got quite expensive so in attempt to cut the bills we started looking at what drains the most power in the house. Naturally we found the server to be one of the biggest drains as it runs at about 150W ideal. As a result of being an old desktop with a AMD X2 3200+ processor in.

So to cut are electric bill by a bit, I set out to find a replacement. My criteria for the replacement being low power usage, quiet, RAID Support and having at least 4 HDD bays.

Matching these criteria  I came up with a 2 possible choices the Data Robotics Drobo FS 5 Bay Stoage Robot priced at around £550 and the Synology Disk Station DS410j priced at around £260.

My choice between these two products came simply down to pricing although I had heard a lot of good things about the Drobo but at over double the cost of the DS410j for me this was just not a valid option.
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htop & nmon

By Mark Davidson on June 26th, 2010

Whenever I run a screen session I always used to have top running in screen 0 by default.
This was till recently when a friend recommended `htop` to me which is a great enhancement on top and I now use this by default.
Just the other day I found another alternative to using `top` which is `nmon` although its not as customisable as `htop` it still has some good features, so I thought I would do a quick post on both and also share my configs which I think work well.

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