I loved the post by Gabe titled “New and Improved Hackergotchi“. For the unaware or careless, they have a predestined hackergotchi head for Planet Utah, either being Richard Simmons or Kim Jong Il. I thought that I would add two more to the list: Paul Reubens and Freddie Mercury. Gabe, the pictures [...]
According to a supposed email from lead developer of PHP Jani Taskinen, he’s outta here, and not looking back. Goodbye PHP, goodbye cruel world! is the theme of his email.
From: Jani Taskinen
Subject: Good bye.
Group: php.internals
Date: Thu Jul 27 20:28:45 2006
Thank you all for the last 6 years or so. It has been fun (sometimes) [...]
Don’t ask. Basically, I was writing another Bash script (surprise!) at work, and came across something that is sitting uneasy with me. And the only reason I can think of, is it isn’t “Kosher”. Let me explain.
The Bash shell, as we all know, is case sensitive. What happens when I have [...]
I don’t know if many of you read Jonathan Schwartz’s blog or not, so if you don’t, you’re in for a good read. For starters, Jonathan Schwartz is the only CEO in a Fortune 500 company to blog (Scott McNealy has handed over the keys and the position). Second, he blogs about what [...]
So, working on one of the many Bash scripts at work, I needed one that handled file manipulation. Not only did it need to manipulate a file, I needed it to handle the manipulation in a loop, as the lines are all the same except for a number (like a primary key) on each [...]
So, in case you were wondering, Pthree stands for Perl, Python and PHP. I know, I know. I haven’t posted hardly anything at all. So I make a feeble attempt at starting now.
Everything that I have been doing at work is supposed to be written in Python, but instead, I have been [...]
I am getting really frustrated with encrypting conversations between differing IM clients. Why in the world does this have to be so difficult? First, let’s talk about the principle of the matter. Then we’ll get into the nitty-gritty.
Regardless of who I am talking to, regardless of what instant messaging client I am [...]
Well, it looks like I have finally reached an end to managing massive DBF tables (500MB+), and MySQL provides the answer. Even if I do have to make a couple hacks to get it to work. For those of you unaware, this has been a plaguing problem of mine for a while now.
For [...]
Microsoft is supposed to be the king of innovation, yet they come up with this garbage:
Ultimate Keyboard
Windows Automotive
Pocket PC
OK. Let’s look at these a each a little more closely. First, the Ultimate Keyboard. I’d like to know where the naming scheme came from for that one. What makes the keyboard [...]
At the Ubuntu-Utah meeting yesterday, we had a fun argument about how to pronounce ‘GIF’. I am in the ‘jif’ camp, only because when the letter g is followed by an a, o or u, it is pronounced hard. If it is followed by an e, i or y, it is soft. [...]
I keep a lot of documentation as I journey through Linux and Free Software. In fact, aside from this blog, I have a two-inch binder full of scripts, programs, web pages and other material. It’s all categorized and laid out in an orderly fashion. You could look at it as a journal [...]
Lately, I have been rewriting C-shell (csh) aliases to Bash scripts. Unfortunately, this is no easy task. Just about each alias uses conditional statements, variables and functions and range between 40-1000+ words. Each alias is also written on one line! As such, trying to decrypt the alias into something useful is [...]
