Tag Archives: geek

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.

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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 →

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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 →

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multi-multi-multi function office machines

Posted on August 28, 2008 by mikegrb

Currently in a waiting room and CNN is on. There was just a commercial for a Sharp deep freezer sized copier/scanner/printer/sink. The business person googled for a restaurant to take a client to on the built in touch screen then … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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

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Polite Spam

Posted on July 15, 2008 by mikegrb

From: “claude je” <redacted> To: <billing@linode.com> Subject: You are about to get fired You are about to get fired http://[redacted]/view.exe It is quite polite of the sender of this piece of mail to warn the recipient that they are about … Continue reading →

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screen copy mode can be used to copy/paste

Posted on July 10, 2008 by mikegrb

I’m aware of many people that use GNU Screen’s copy mode to scroll back through terminal history but don’t actually use copy mode for copying text for later pasting. I was one of those people myself for some time. Screen … Continue reading →

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dh-make-perl will rock your socks

Posted on July 2, 2008 by mikegrb

dh-make-perl is the most awesome Debian package /ever/. dh-make-perl –cpan Some::Module –build sudo dpkg -i libsome-module-0.1-1_all.deb Done. Dependencies If you have apt-file installed and Some::Module requires Lib::Foo for which a Debian package is available, the dependancy will automatically be created. … Continue reading →

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Rotate through Screen Windows

Posted on June 26, 2008 by mikegrb

A new command in screen version 4.00 is the idle command. idle time command Executes screen command, command when idle for time seconds. E.g. to rotate through screen windows with a 3 second interval: idle 3 next To cancel, idle … Continue reading →

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