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The Unreasonable Man
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him… The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself… All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw
Turn Off Anti-Aliasing in Aquamacs
To turn off anti-aliasing in Aquamacs (Emacs on OSX):
Building An Alternative DVR
My home-grown DVR setup is built on Google’s Go language, SSHFS, Twitter, and XBMC. First, a SSH remote host is mounted. This host should magically fill with your preferred content. I can not help with … Continue reading
Winobot, the IRC Bot You Can Party With
Partying with your IRC bot just got a whole lot easier. Built with Perl, AnyEvent, MongoDB, and creative input from my friends. Code available at GitHub Come play with it on irc.freenode.net #winobot Notes: code is stable … Continue reading
Multiparty Encryption in Public IRC Channels with IRCSRP
Most instant messaging encryption plugins only support peer to peer level encryption. IRCSRP allows an entire IRC channel to communicate securely. In fact this technique is not bound to the IRC protocol. IRC was chosen … Continue reading
A Modern Perl Configuration Management Framework
I’ve uploaded Thorium, a configuration framework for Perl to CPAN. This is the source code to what’s described in a previous post. Note, the name space was refactored as an existing module Amethyst was already on CPAN. Here’s the Quick Start excerpt … Continue reading
Finding glibc’s Version
libc.so.6 is executable: $ /lib/libc.so.6 GNU C Library (EGLIBC) stable release version 2.10.2, by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. … Continue reading
Perforce and Sane Emacs Defaults When Submitting
Writing the commit message when using the command line version of Perforce leaves a lot to be desired. Here I’m going to change that with some sane defaults for Emacs. Such features as: line numbers … Continue reading
Tweeting OpenBSD Network IP Changes With Minimal Dependencies
OpenBSD’s ifstated allows you to run commands on network interface state change. Add this to your /etc/ifstated.conf: init-state auto net_check = ‘( “ifconfig vr1 | grep \”status: active\” && \ ifconfig vr1 | grep \”inet *.*.*.* netmask\” | … Continue reading