When digging an old computer out from under a desk, for the simple purpose of playing around with a new O/S, make sure you are not trying to boot a 64-bit O/S on a 32-bit computer… before you get too involved in troubleshooting things.

Egad, I found myself trying to find the differences between two files, each with over 93,000 lines in them. There were about 100 differences between them. While vimdiff is nifty for smaller files, I just found such large files overwhelming. Meld to the rescue! While I couldn’t get it working on my MacBook Pro, it was a simple as: “sudo yum install meld” on one of my Linux desktops. A quick scp to grab both files from the server and all was good. Meld has many other features such as version control integration and visual merges but, for now, the diff saved the...

Well ya found it, good for you. What, you ask? Well these are the random thoughts and ramblings of a hands-on system administrator, who is also a web developer, and tech junkie that likes to write scripts and play with things.