Oversimplifying
This month my VPS.net account reached the grand age of 1-year-old. For this special occasion I thought I would do another review of VPS.net and recount some of my experiences from the last 12 months.
In this review I will go over the good and bad aspects of VPS.net that I have experienced. Also I will cover what is coming in the future and what I would like to see in the future as well. Finally I will give a bit of a summary of my thoughts after a year.
A really quick post this time to just take note of the strings tool which is part of the Binutils collection of binary tools
The strings tool allows you to print all printable characters in a given file or files. This can be very useful for a number of different tasks from extracting metadata from a file to retrieving a certain level of information from unknown executables such as what URLs it has contained within it.
So I came into work the other day and one of the SSH sessions I had left open with a screen session had an interesting error.
Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...
Now that is one of the weirdest errors I have ever seen come out of any program on any platform. Apparently the error is a throw back to the game nethack which is kind of cool.
My screen session seems to have died with some memory issue which is something I have never seen happen before
May 14 04:44:42 chronos view: *** glibc detected *** view: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000000936d50 *** May 14 04:44:21 chronos kernel: [4894494.908208] screen.real[3934]: segfault at 7fffaa1d6a10 rip 4055ee rsp 7fffaa1d6a10 error 6
Just a post to note what this error is related to and that if it happens to you just check your syslog most likely a similar error will show up.
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