Archive for September, 2009

Presentation at the Kentucky Association of Realtors Annual Conference

Released September 24th, 2009

Mission Data recently designed and developed the new Kentucky Association of Realtors (KAR) website, check it out: www.kar.com! We had a blast working with the KAR team and collaborating on a website that would work well for them, their membership and their visitors.

Our work with KAR led to a request for Mission Data to present at their annual convention and expo. Todd Budnikas, Creative Director for Mission Data and Marvin Chartoff, VP of Managed Services gave a talk about Website Trends and Design Strategies. We were honored to have the opportunity to speak to realtors about strategies they can use to attract more business and influence their existing clients. Realtors are in a competitive space, the use of the web, social media and mobile devices is critical to conducting and attracting business.

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Showing progress using dd

Released September 16th, 2009

One of the frustrating behaviors of dd is that it provides no feedback about what it is doing. It does however provide a signal (USR1) that you can send to the process that will dump the current progress. Open a new terminal (I use screen) and type:

while true; do kill -USR1 `pidof dd`; sleep 2; done

(NOTE: if `pidof dd` doesn’t work for you, just use the process id directly)

Switch back to the terminal where dd is running and you should see:

9902751744 bytes (9.9 GB) copied, 732.883 s, 13.5 MB/s
9469+0 records in
9468+0 records out
9927917568 bytes (9.9 GB) copied, 734.914 s, 13.5 MB/s
9496+0 records in
9495+0 records out
9956229120 bytes (10 GB) copied, 736.941 s, 13.5 MB/s

updating every couple of seconds.

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