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DNS Zone File record generation script

Posted on June 7, 2007 by dre

In wrote the following as part of my response to this. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # Place the first three octets here. my $AddressPrefix = “10.0.1”; # Define the range of numbers, inclusive. my $range = “2 .. 10”; # … Continue reading →

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Eggdrop TCL using Google’s SOAP API

Posted on May 27, 2007 by dre

Link to google-soap I was helping my brother with a script called incith-google used by one of his IRC bots. It acts as a bridge between IRC and google, allowing IRC users to perform queries against google from the comfort … Continue reading →

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owwie

Posted on May 17, 2007 by dre

Seattle, WA has more elevation changes than Cupertino, CA. Last thursday, while riding my bike home from 15th (capitol hill), I hit a huge pot hole while going downhill, kinda fast. Front wheel went down in it – loud metallic … Continue reading →

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Apple airport base station monitor

Posted on April 27, 2007 by dre

Download. {1} andre@dude [~] % airport -h Program Options: -h print this help -d output in comma delimited format (base station ID lines are designated by ‘*’) -v verbose mode (stacks up to 3 times) –encode Specify plaintext to retrieve … Continue reading →

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Now accepting applications

Posted on March 15, 2007 by dre

https://jobs-prz.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.showJob&RID=5997&CurrentPage=1 If you know any hot to trot mac server geeks, this would be a good job. Though I’m intentionally vacating it for reasons including “I don’t want to do it anymore”, I would still recommend it as a good … Continue reading →

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Thomas Dolby

Posted on March 12, 2007 by dre

Saw Thomas Dolby last night at the Little Fox Theater in Redwood city. First set was solo, and included a bit of storytelling along with the tunes. Second set included the Jazz Mafia Horns, which worked out surprisingly well. Lots … Continue reading →

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The opposite of split is cat.

Posted on January 2, 2007 by dre

/usr/bin/split and /bin/cat, that is. Why is this useful information? Let’s imagine a wonderful world in which your web host gives you oodles of bandwidth and disk quota, and then one day secretly enacts a policy that disallows access to … Continue reading →

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Installing perl modules locally

Posted on December 6, 2006 by dre

Dealing with CPAN has always felt a little weird. Today I found a nice shortcut for getting perl modules installed in a home directory, which is really useful for when you don’t have admin on the box, or if you … Continue reading →

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OpenLDAP and SSL (and Mac OS X Server and you)

Posted on November 13, 2006 by dre

Mac OS X Server, as of Tiger, has a spiffy little UI in the Server Admin tool for creating SSL certificate requests, importing certs, or creating self-signed certs. It’s pretty easy to make it all work for http or LDAP … Continue reading →

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the rushbot

Posted on November 4, 2006 by dre

On the 10/30 Colbert Report, there was a segment about Rush Limbaugh who was recently claiming that Michael J Fox was exaggerating his Parkinson’s disease and ‘shilling for a Democrat politician’ in a series of TV ads for stem cell … Continue reading →

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