Category Archives: General

~/.bashrc Perl Module Version Tip

Posted on January 9, 2009 by mikegrb

I often need to quickly check the version of a perl module currently installed. A while back I got tired of running: $ perl -MPOE::Filter -E ‘say $POE::Filter::VERSION’ 1.2357 So I added a quick function to .bashrc: pm-vers () { … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

git diff and white space

Posted on January 7, 2009 by mikegrb

So I’m getting ready to make a commit to wxperl and I run a git diff to check on changes and git yelled at me that I had some trailing white space. Well it didn’t yell but it hi-lighted the … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Net::Abuse::Utils v0.10 Released

Posted on December 28, 2008 by mikegrb

I just released Net::Abuse::Utils v0.10 to CPAN. If you can’t wait, grab it here. If you haven’t heard of this module before, see this online example of some of the data that can be returned. Online docs are available as … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Geeky Weather Station Stuffs

Posted on December 21, 2008 by mikegrb

http://weather.thegrebs.com/ I recently received a nice Honeywell weather station. It turns out they are actually manufactured by a company called Irox which also sells stations under it’s own name but they seem to be more popular in Europe. Being a … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Join the FSF Today

Posted on December 5, 2008 by mikegrb

The Free Software Foundation is having a year end fund drive. Go join today. Can you think of a better way to spend $10 per month? Tell them member 7097 sent you.

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Ruby’s not Ready

Posted on November 11, 2008 by mikegrb

Was looking for a specific essay about some of the issues with Ruby to point my boss to and stumbled across this instead, still haven’t quite finished reading it yet but good stuff. Increases my desire to further my Python … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Quick & Easy Temperature Logging with the Arduino

Posted on November 2, 2008 by mikegrb

Basic Voltage Divider with a Thermistor: Typical voltage divider, matched would have made better sense but the thermistor was a random one salvaged from consumer electronics so I didn’t know the value in advance. Would work just fine like this … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

No upstart Docs + asshole Canonical Employees = Fail

Posted on August 18, 2008 by mikegrb

I was in need of a means to disable upstart scripts in /etc/event.d via some means other than getting rid of the file. Since upstart has no documentation to speak of, I asked my buddy Google. Google pointed me to … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

The Definitive qmail Patch

Posted on August 11, 2008 by mikegrb

I have spent quite some time working on the definitive qmail patch. So as not to keep all this goodness to my self I have decided to make this patch available to all: http://thegrebs.com/~michael/netqmail-1.06.patch.bz2

Posted in General | Tagged , | 1 Comment

$20 Garage Sale Find

Posted on August 2, 2008 by mikegrb

Couldn’t pass this up, hard wood and HEAVY. Banged up from years of abuse from kids but many more years left in it, I’m sure.

Posted in General | Tagged | 1 Comment