Determine Yesterday’s Date in a unix environment using ksh and date()
Unix and KSH to find yesterday’s date
Mastering Unix Shell Scripting: Bash, Bourne, and Korn Shell Scripting for Programmers, System Administrators, and UNIX Gurus, 2nd Edition
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, Mac Osx, and Unix Systems
I did a bunch of searching and found a lot of places online to do timestamp conversions, and perl programs to get yesterday’s date. Some worked and some didn’t. But none the less, I didn’t need a whole program to do this, and I especially didn’t need an online converter for use in my app. I needed something simple and small that didn’t use a lot of calulations.
Here is what i came up with for use in the shell (KSH)
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When Compound Interest is Against You.
Compound Interest goes both ways
What I mean by “Against”.
We all know that compound interest is the best tool we have to building large sums of money, when its working for us.
When you have an abundance of debt, be it credit card or other the interest is compounding against you. So instead of YOUR money building the DEBTOR’s money is building at an exponential rate.
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Ubuntu Logitech Dual Action USB Gamepad install with Ubuntu 7.10
HOWTO: Installing Logitech Dual action USB gamepad under ubuntu.
Here is what I did to install it and get it working with GSNESX.
Run update to make sure everything is current.
- sudo apt-get update
Install the joystick package.
- sudo apt-get install joystick
Install the joystick calibrator
- sudo apt-get install jscalibrator
Toastboy Dmoz Web Script
DMOZ.PHP3 No Longer exists
It seems that a lot of people are still accessing toastboy.com from script sites looking for my dmoz.php.
It has been offline for a long while.
If you are still interested in the dmoz.php script. Leave me a comment, and I will re write one and post it again.