I’m transitioning my daily work desktop from OS X Leopard to Kubuntu Hardy. (I’ll be writing more about that in the future.) My job is split between managing people and doing development and system administration for a bunch of Ubuntu boxes, so running the same platform that I’m administering makes a lot of sense. I [...]
First, the epiphany — despite all the fires, and multiple top priorities, and projects, and all the other fireballs of stress that scream over my desk — there is nothing I can do for Dakim that’s more important than hiring. Over the next two years, I’m probably going to add significant headcount to my department [...]
And by “Launch,” I mean “I’m starting to write it.” There’s a long way between that and a completed program. But you can check my progress at SPBS’ Google Code site: http://code.google.com/p/spbs/
I’ve written an introduction to SPBS, and the reasons I’m writing it here, at http://code.google.com/p/spbs/wiki/SPBSIntroduction
I follow the Ubuntu Geek blog, and have found some very useful tips there. However, there’s a problem with their latest tip, “Howto Check you (sic) external IP Address from the command line.”
Some background: There’s a very useful website located at whatismyip.com, which reports the IP you used to connect to the site. If you’re [...]
Here’s a reason to think twice about your colocation provider: CIHost.com has been broken into four times over the past two years, and had servers and equipment stolen. Their Chief Corporate Counsel, James Eckels, says the robbers “Knew what they’re doing,” and that their facility is “in a bad part of town.”
There’s very little payoff [...]
I’m putting together a postinst (post installation) script for a Debian package I created for work. And there’s a little C program in there that needs to run as root, but be called by a regular user.
Well, there’s a standard way of doing that in Linux/Unix, called setuid. You set the “setuid bit” to on, [...]
(As it turns out, xkcd doesn’t mind when you use their content in a blog. See “Can we print xkcd in our magazine/newspaper/other publication?“)
From Terminally Incoherent:
Yep. I just removed myself from all the groups except for vboxusers. Brilliant! I absolutely hate when I do stupid shit like that. It’s not like this was hard to fix – I just didn’t remember of the top of my head what groups I was supposed to belong to. Of course since [...]
Say you’ve got a Subversion source code tree checked out, and for whatever reason you want to remove all Subversion directories inside that tree. (The thing that makes a Subversion tree a Subversion tree is the presence of a “.svn” folder in every folder of the tree. If you had a complicated source tree with [...]
I’m focusing in on some very important parts of my workflow. Version control is Subversion. I’m most of the way through the book on it.
Text editing is TextMate. I was trying to use vim, because it’s one editor I can use both on my OS X desktop and SSH’d across the network to linux boxes. [...]