Month: May 2009

Best shirt ever on shirt.woot.com

05/18/2009 Thoughts & Rants No Comments
After rolling into work today, I quickly checked Woot! and found that thye put up the greatest shirt I have ever seen (other than my coveted ‘Mr.Spock’ shirt).  Well the shirt was a reference to two great shows, Dr.Who & Back to the Future.  It is still available in the…

WGET only if file is modified

05/06/2009 Linux SysAdmin 1 Comment
This is a tiny little tip, and probably any linux guru worth his/her salt knows this, but I just discovered the wget usage to check the time-stamp / last-modified header prior to downloading a file.  Which is pretty cool if you’ve ever setup any shell scripts that fetch/sync something. I…