The size of dot files and directories

Have you ever tried du -csh .* to find the size of all the hidden files in your home directory? It never works properly for me as I think it only counts the size of the .* files in each of the named directories.
Anyway, the following solves that problem and shows you where all those thumbnails have been generataed by gthumb or nautilaus.. 🙂

for i in `ls -A`; do du -sh $i; done

38.113.198.9? Are you there? eh what?

Oy! Whoever’s at 38.113.198.9 is causing a bit of a stir here …. he hit this server yesterday with 34K hits. I wouldn’t mind if it was a sensible bot that was archiving stuff, but no, he has to visit some pages over 100 times just to make sure he has the correct content!
Anyway, he won’t see this post as all he’ll see if he comes here is the following:

go away and stop hitting this server – email donncha_@_linux.ie if you want access again.