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SI File Transfer, Entity Capabilities, iChat, and Your Jabber Bot
What do these things have in common? This is the only place on the entire internet where you can read useful information about all of these things. I’ve toyed with jabber bots before, mostly using the various XMPP stacks available … Continue reading
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Longcuts occasionally form when shortcuts conspire
Saw a tweet about one of those one-touch ‘build me a VM’ things for Oracle server + rails and decided to try it; this one is mostly driven by some software called vagrant, which seems cool enough. It definitely doesn’t seem … Continue reading
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foci: MacBookPro10,1
I got one, and I really like it! This post will focus on just a few attributes of the new hardware that are salient to me. Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro10,1 Processor Name: Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: … Continue reading
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Site Redesign Complete
I’ve finally finished with the site redesign, featuring a little custom javascript header – roll over the images to see other images. These are loaded from URLs in a JSON document, so it’ll be easy to add new images over … Continue reading
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Traffic Shaping with pfSense and HFSC
Traffic Shaping with pfSense and HFSC (youtube) This screencast demonstrates the use of a pfSense device for traffic shaping on a typical home network, with the goals of minimizing latency and maximizing throughput. In particular, we use a three-tier queue configuration … Continue reading
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Backfill
In preparation for a dreness.com site redesign, I am migrating away from LiveJournal, my longtime (but mostly abandoned) personal blog. WordPress offers import support from various sources, including LiveJournal. I let it grind for about 30 minutes and it got … Continue reading
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Permissions updated…
Spambots have been running wild lately, so I’ve tightened this site a little. To post a comment, users must be logged in and must have a previously approved comment – otherwise the comment goes into moderation queue. ** UPDATE They … Continue reading
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How I fixed broken internal audio by zapping pram
Oops. I think I stole my own thunder. It was a serious wtf moment though… by all rights, I really don’t think this is supposed to happen. The worst part of this experience is not the increasingly frantic hour of … Continue reading
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Ubuntu Development Bootstrap
Linux hackers surely already know this, but I’m only sorta a Linux hacker. This post documents a nice process for using apt to prepare an Ubuntu machine for development. In my case, I was trying to build a custom version … Continue reading
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Gnuplot time-series buckets quickie
Let’s say you’ve got a log file of events with time stamps; the nature of the events isn’t relevant, and let’s say the stamps look like this: 14/Mar/2012:17:49:34 14/Mar/2012:17:49:34 14/Mar/2012:17:49:39 14/Mar/2012:17:49:40 14/Mar/2012:17:49:41 14/Mar/2012:17:49:58 14/Mar/2012:17:51:46 14/Mar/2012:17:51:46 14/Mar/2012:17:52:56 14/Mar/2012:17:52:56 14/Mar/2012:17:52:57 14/Mar/2012:17:52:57 14/Mar/2012:17:53:16 … Continue reading
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