Today I took some time to flash my Linksys WRT41G with the OpenWRT firmware. This firmware sets up the router as a little embedded Linux router. I have to say that the flash went through pretty easily. All I did was upload the image using the Linksys web interface, telnet to the router after it …
Perl’s spec
Perl’s spec is a printout of Larry’s source code, which looks the same in ascii, ebcdic, and gzipped binary form. Stevey’s Drunken Blog Rants
Subversion in my ~/Home
Today I finished importing my home directory into Subversion. I did this because I needed an easy way to keep files in sync between my desktop and laptop and rsync was not cutting it. I first thought of this after reading the new O’Rielly book on Safari called Mind Performance Hacks. There is a hack …
CSV and Rails
Today I hacked up some scripts to update a Rails database based off of what is in a SQL Server database. The goal was to automate the export of some information from SQL, send it to a remote server, and then update the Rails database with the current information. Using Ruby’s CSV library made this …
Play nice with others — Linux Tip #4
If you need to run a process that will take a lot of cpu resources and has to run for a long time, it is nice to run it using the program nice. In a nutshell, nice will run your process but allow it to be bumped by more important processes. For example if you …