Blogs

1. Slimbookbattery and the frequent password prompt on Ubuntu March 2021
2. ._s to deal with temp and scratch files November 2018
3. easy DevOps: clean and tweak the monitoring December 2017
4. getting rid of the nest? March 2017
5. personal affirmation February 2017
6. a news diet February 2017
7. Replacing the bootable SD card on a Cubietruck (and perhaps other ARM Linux boxes) February 2017
8. Rediscovering running January 2017
9. Why is there a shortage of DevOps People? October 2015
10. Brain Zero is like Inbox Zero September 2015
11. my new to-do app: Swipes July 2015
12. personal DevOps May 2015
13. Why DevOps is all about the Tools April 2015
14. operations teams and people have to change April 2015
15. Mailbox makes Inbox Zero easy March 2015
16. DevOps team of One March 2015
17. the REST api shootout ... a followup March 2015
18. choosing a programming language to save money March 2015
19. making things better instead of working March 2015
20. a REST web api shootout in 5 different languages March 2015
21. DevOps. What's in a name? February 2015
22. pushme - a simple script to push a notification to the phone December 2014
23. a month with zsh October 2014
24. cleaning up a lot of comment spam in drupal October 2014
25. android for better hangouts and calendars on the desktop July 2014
26. curl not saving URL with Content-Length: 0 July 2014
27. the value of docker ... April 2014
28. easy test environments with vagrant and virtualbox March 2014
29. controlling access to elasticsearch with filtered aliases, nginx *and* tokens February 2014
30. communicate your communication style December 2013
31. solarized and the bliss of great color everywhere December 2013
32. chrome flickering under ubuntu and compiz October 2013
33. Good bye bzr, welcome git September 2013
34. logstash and kibana for adhoc log analysis April 2013
35. [productivity] tasks, projects and prioritizing March 2013
36. Samsung Galaxy S2 wifi shows as connected, but isn't March 2013
37. Ubuntu 12.10 and s/pdif or iec958 or optical audio output February 2013
38. adjusting video settings for a google hangout in Ubuntu January 2013
39. faster keyboard link navigation in chrome January 2013
40. space: the final fronier .... in bash January 2013
41. rhythmbox and video podcasts December 2012
42. goodbye screen, hello tmux November 2012
43. hulu and ubuntu 12.04 and flashplayer June 2012
44. springpad extension on netbook May 2012
45. performance of different scripting languages: shell v. perl v. python v. ruby V2 May 2012
46. performance of different scripting languages: shell v. perl v. python v. ruby April 2012
47. easy emusic downloads in ubuntu March 2012
48. [productivity] the bliss of a reduced computing footprint January 2012
49. redundant DNS on ubuntu using IP takeover via heartbeat and pacemaker January 2012
50. annoying xorg crash due to librecord.so January 2012
51. rsync or ssh failing from cron or background script January 2012
52. instapaper epub issues January 2012
53. swappiness on Ubuntu Desktop 11.10 November 2011
54. google chrome performance getting worse ... maybe not October 2011
55. a drupal 7 theme garden October 2011
56. drupal drag and drop blocks in nested sites September 2011
57. screen and the scrolling shell history September 2011
58. apache, mod_authnz_ldap, AD and that other port July 2011
59. banshee and sync to creative zen via mtp May 2011
60. ubuntu 11.04 (natty narwhal) and ath9k wireless drops or slowness May 2011
61. google groupchat with empathy April 2011
62. lirc and huludesktop March 2011
63. rhel and the importance of curl March 2011
64. ssh-agent through remote host running screen February 2011
65. Tomato Firmware on WRT54GL January 2011
66. XML editors on Ubuntu November 2010
67. rescuetime on ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) November 2010
68. OpenOffice and external data in CSV October 2010
69. execvp: Permission denied and rpm -qV to the rescue August 2010
70. parallelism or multiple threads in BASH July 2010
71. Ubuntu Lucid with wicd and domain-name-servers June 2010
72. [project] convert old movies to digital April 2010
73. from VCR to AVI April 2010
74. GMail backup to IMAP server April 2010
75. getting openldap and phpldapadmin running on ubuntu karmic April 2010
76. more on google chrome and tiddlywiki April 2010
77. reducing firefox screen footprint on a ubuntu netbook March 2010
78. google chrome and tiddlywiki March 2010
79. [food] best spices in denver March 2010
80. finding unlabeled messages in Gmail February 2010
81. wpc54g on ubuntu February 2010
82. sharing the sound device with mpd February 2010
83. [food] homemade vegetarian sausage February 2010
84. Migrating Drupal from PostgreSQL to MySQL January 2010
85. [productivity] planning the trip to europe January 2010
86. bash getopts broke my string December 2009
87. [productivity] what have i done December 2009
88. openldap and the magic of latin-1 versus unicode in schema November 2009
89. cyrus imap and the amazing bdb library issue and broken lmtp on gentoo October 2009
90. gnome do and banshee October 2009
91. better screenshots in ubuntu ... shutter or something like skitch October 2009
92. [food] homemade seitan August 2009
93. chandler events in the gnome panel clock with running evolution June 2009
94. more easy steps to get remote scanning working again May 2009
95. Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 and the ASUS eeepc 1000HE May 2009
96. mythweb and more php fun April 2009
97. [food] vegetarian italian sausage patties with cornmeal mush April 2009
98. owl and zend errors April 2009
99. [food] vegetarian feijoada March 2009
100. easy steps to get remote scanning working in ubuntu February 2009
101. [productivity] a usable todo list - chandler February 2009
102. vista print sharing is forgiving of the unknown user February 2009
103. Ubuntu Linux on Toshiba Satellite A135-S4527 January 2009
104. Switching on-call in Nagios January 2009
105. Flashing a Vaio December 2008
106. perl out sorts sort December 2008
107. The story of stuff November 2008
108. Simple ways to try Linux in your business November 2008
109. Portable Apps running on Linux November 2008
110. Portable Apps on Linux?!? November 2008
111. The many circles of quoting hell October 2008
112. Raw CUPS configuration challenge! October 2008
113. 1 != 1 ... it's a type thing September 2008
114. gentoo on apache with mod_suexec September 2008
115. The magic of /etc/conf.d/apache2 and it's failings August 2008
116. scripting against windows August 2008
117. quick to sleep, but slow to wake (resume) July 2008
118. [food] converting from the old country and dealing with yeast June 2008
119. device mapper, logical volumes, mount points and raw device paths May 2008
120. [productivity] someones watching May 2008
121. howto move mbox files to an IMAP server May 2008
122. [productivity] the new found un-dread of email April 2008
123. OSX envy and how to get per domain DNS servers April 2008
124. MythTV and the mystery of the ghost channel April 2008
125. Vista Home Premium without that premium feeling February 2008
126. KeyJnote and a tale of two utils February 2008
127. [productivity] dread of email February 2008
128. Computer Science Education January 2008
129. mod_authnz_ldap for Apache and the mystery of the missing REMOTE_USER September 2007
130. [ubuntu] udev and the magically inaccessible camera March 2007
131. Flexibility versus Standards December 2005
132. no hal.dll ... no login ... no safe mode August 2004
133. hdparm and slooooow disk June 2004
134. CUPS and fontconfig May 2004
135. What's Driving Open Source? July 2003
136. Evolution fonts April 2003
137. Sendmail can play nice with the web user ... February 2003
138. Evolution annoyance January 2003
139. Open Source COOP November 2002