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Wrote a little cgi that works somewhat like a proxy that spoofs referrer (the HTTP Referer tag). My webcomic coalater was suffering due to keenspots ‘lets verify referrer’ move that prevents ‘deep linking’. Highly irksome, the page drew all comics … Continue reading →

Enjoying my little vacation (May 30 was my last work day, contract expired… looking around for new employment now). Been playing with some web toys lately, little collect&graph statistical thingies. Sampling weather patterns for several zip codes with updates every … Continue reading →

Well, this morning, I went out and bought a laptop… Stopped by the apple store up in germantown (yanking at their door minutes before they opened, my timing was awesome considering I left my apt, went to run some errands, … Continue reading →

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Timestamp is a text filtering pipe that marks each line with a timestamp. The time is set when the first character of the line is received, and the util is capable of coping with CR repeats fairly well (won’t over-write … Continue reading →

Got a commit bit for OpenAL today. Woohoo 🙂 I mostly care about the FreeBSD support, I’ve been maintaining the ‘port’ and making modifications to a cvs co. Now I can put the changes back in so BSDers can cvs … Continue reading →

First day of work today 🙂 Contract (to perm) job at FedEx via NCS. The title NCS is giving me is Senior UNIX Administrator, and the group I’m working with is System Administration and Consulting (SA&C or SA+C or just … Continue reading →

Many bugfixes and speed improvements, plus some nicer packaging (makefile, readme, …) Fixed logical bug that missed lots of dups and slowed things down Fixed bug that ignores dups if size not 4096 Fixed cosmetic bug in the usage screen … Continue reading →

This program takes a directory as an argument, then walks through the directory looking for duplicate and partially duplicate files. If it an exact duplicate, it deletes one and creates a hardlink to the other, minimizing disk usage. If it … Continue reading →

YANCS is Yet Another NCurses for Scheme. Some of the more notable features are that it works with guile 1.4 (stable… the other ncurses for guile I found required cvs copies of guile), the setup generates the interface from some … Continue reading →