Yesterday I ran into a file format I had not seen before. Microsoft .chm (Compiled HTML). Turns out there are plenty of solutions for Linux. I have to admit I really wondered why the publications I found were in .chm and not in a more standard .pdf format. Really makes me appreciate common standards. I’ll… Read More »
As I mentioned in yesterdays post, I have begun studying perl. I’m actually enjoying it quite a bit, and picking things up fairly quickly I think. I’m sure my familiarity with bash scripting helps quite a bit. This morning I hacked together an irssi script for origami users that will let you display your current… Read More »
Over the weekend I started studying Perl and quickly realized I was going to be better off if I reviewed regular expressions before I got too far into things. I went back and found my copy of “Mastering Regular Expressions” and dove right in. Now, maybe its just me, but I find that I really… Read More »
The past few days have been all about installing third-party applications. Yes I know some of these are “non-free”, but it does seem like a lot of these are those apps that many of us just can’t do without. So, to continue the series here we have Installing Skype 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.10. Download The… Read More »
So its a little after noon today and I just woke up. No, I’m not a lazy late sleeper, I got home from work last nite about 4:45am. We had a huge server room rebuild consolidating ~40 servers, rebuilding two racks, and going to the data center. Loads of fun, let me tell you. Anyway,… Read More »
UPDATE: Install Adobe Reader 9 on Ubuntu 9.10 For those of you that run blogs, are you ever surprised at the content that ends up being the most popular? I get surprised all the time, particularly that my previous post regarding installation of adobe reader on Ubuntu 8.04 is near the top of the list.… Read More »
Recently I blogged about “What Do You Do Post-Install?” to find out what little tweaks everyone applies to their systems on a fresh machine. It appears that a lot of you enable the Medibuntu repository right away and take advantage of that for media and codecs. Did you know there are also other applications available,… Read More »
I mentioned in a recent post regarding postfix smtp via Gmail that I use the logwatch utility for monitoring my systems. Ever since I found this utility I have really enjoyed the daily snapshot that it gives me of each of my systems, whether local or remote. Everything from package installed and removed, to security… Read More »
After quite the hiatus from coding I have released Origami 0.6.9. Thanks go to Martin Zuther for his bug and feature request submissions on Launchpad. This release should resolve a long standing bug and also added two new features. Origami now supports definition of BIGPACKETS, which can be very important depending on your hardware. I’ve… Read More »
Recently I was tasked with doing a bunch of documentation work here at the office, and I decided to put together a wiki for the job. After a few hours of editing directly into the browser I was about to blow my brains out. I quickly decided that if I’m going to be working with… Read More »