@schahnI’ve been using a dual Opteron as my primary desktop lately, but Solaris doesn’t support the sound device included on its motherboard. After asking around about the likelihood of support arriving, I was told that one possible path was to use a USB Audio device instead. So I drove off to Fry’s to look around [...]
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If you use vim, then you may have discovered that its documentation, while extensive, is nearly impenetrable. One operation I often have to do is $ for x in [list of files]; do > sed -e ‘[some substitution]‘ < $x > $x.bak > mv $x.bak $x > done since most Unix-based editors don’t offer multi-file [...]
I’ve reformatted the software:dockables page to bring it in line with the site’s general format; it’s still one of the more active entry pages for blueslugs.com (along with the grammar entry in Ben’s ABC collection).
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I was trying another web server statistics package, awstats, based on a testimonial in Alan’s blog. Unfortunately, awstats expects a log file to be in the combined’ log format, and blueslugs.com has many entries in the defaultcommon’ format (prior to a switch for superior logging). A search showed no obvious small script for this, so [...]
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I’ve started using analog to build reports from the blueslugs.com server logs. One of the tools on the site is minidns, which is a small Perl script that runs through the logs, replacing any IPv4 address matches with their DNS-resolved names (if defined). I’ve improved this slightly, by adding caching inside the application (on the [...]
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I’ve used pretty much every VNC client available for Mac OS X over the past year. My preferred client now is Chicken of the VNC, even though the pun makes me cringe. Recommended.
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I recently started using Sun’s version of GNOME 2.0 as my primary desktop environment, and decided that I needed an icon to launch my favourite mail application, mutt. I’m not much of an artist or a GIMP expert, but I was able to combine the GNOME terminal icon with the mutt in the Mutt banner: [...]
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