Published by Steven Black July 3rd, 2018 nohup allows me to run jobs on my servers and have them keep running even when I log off. I’ll give you a few examples, but that’s no substitute for the docs! https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?nohup or just run man nohup # for example, run my script.py even if I lose connection nohup script.py # but let's say I want to have my terminal back after running it

If you’re a control freak who has a compulsion to understand every piece of how the world works you’ve probably tried to “do it yourself”… and so this piece is part installation guide, part diary entry, and part a warning: Abandon all hope ye who enter here * *unless you…

My first developer talk in the books! You can see the recording yourself at this link, or get the presentation and all the materials here unofficialoraclecloudhub.github.io/oracledb-graphql-demo/ This site (hosted from out unofficial cloud-hub GitHub repository) has all the materials I presented in my talk. …

Join me on Oracle’s Learning Library for a few moocs - Databases for Developers I loved this course! Chris Saxon has so much energy and enthusiasm for databases, it’s infectious. …

A new sblack4.github.io, hosted from one repository with two branches Learn more about hugo as gohugo.io Create a Hugo site Install Hugo (see chocolatey) choco install hugo -confirm git submodule add https://github.com/calintat/minimal.git themes/minimal git submodule init git submodule update Set up GitHub Pages Checkout dev branch git checkout -b dev Change master branch to .../sblack.github.io/public

Misadventures in automation TL;DR — if you’re using chrome visit chrome://net-internals/ By day, I work behind an http proxy. By night, I tinker without restraint- feeling the open internet breeze through my hair. While I’ve adapted by writing a script to set/unset proxy settings it would be nice if there…

Would you trade privacy for convenience? The other day I wanted to take a stroll down memory lane, but couldn’t seem to coordinate the right songs, photos, and diary entries… We accumulate so many memories (see cute baby below) distributed across a collection of devices. There’s no single interface to…

A few common errors in the the Oracle Cloud UI — I was creating a new BDC (Big Data Cloud) instance when everything was not going smoothly, as usual... the storage container now had to be in global format! This means I need the URL for Oracle Cloud’s Storage REST API. We need two things; the Cloud Storage Container Name and…

This is a follow up to my previous post, Creating a Big Data Cloud Instance. If you just want to have a better time SSHing (yes, I verbified it)on windows just substitute our Big Data Cloud instance for your server. …