Monthly Archives: May 2007

It’s not enough to be loud…you have to suck too.

Apparently since twitter set the bar so low for working applications…celly decided it didn’t matter that their main page returns undefined.

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I always have been a sucker for a smock

A cute dental assistant at my dentists office the other day talked me into getting a OralB Sonic Complete. At 90 dollars, it’s a little pricy, but I do like the way it makes my teeth feel.

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Mythtv “Adding Channels” wtf

I reinstalled my myth box, and when the mythfilldatabase was running it named each channel Adding Channel $channel_number To fix that, run it again like so: mythfilldatabase –do-channel-updates

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Ubuntu, ssh, known_hosts, tab completion

I have to look this up from time to time, putting it here. On Ubuntu, they have ‘HashKnownHosts yes’ set by default in /etc/ssh_config. This is annoying if you want to use bash completion to tab complete host names for … Continue reading

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It sees you

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Linux KVM

KVM support for Linux is now available in most kernels. Ubuntu is no exception. After realizing my core duo had the vmx extensions necessary to run KVM, I decided to try it. I had to upgrade my bios, then dig … Continue reading

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Who loves you?

I have almost a years worth of traffic in one Apache access log. I am grepping around on it and thought this was interesting: Sun May 06 | 06:53:59 | bignate@nimrod | logs | $: cat access_log | grep -i … Continue reading

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String as class name in Ruby

Ok, so this is pretty flippin sweet. I have been messing around with the client code for the monitoring app I am writing and I did some pretty wicked shit tonite. The monitoring app needs to have some classes that … Continue reading

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More buzzwords than you can shake a stick at!

Err the blog has an interesting post on Behavior Driven Development. Take a look at it. Go ahead…I’ll wait. Back? Ok, so from what I see there I like it. I think I will write some tests for the code … Continue reading

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Within reach

I am pretty close to cracking a 30 min 3 miler. This morning, even though I was saving some for some labor I have do today, I came up about 1/8th of a mile short. Not to mention I wasn’t … Continue reading

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