Recent Articles
Handling a Subversion Repository URL Change
Sunday, May 3, 2009
If your repository URL changes, you can use the following command to fix existing snapshots.
vfat Mounts Default to Lowercase Shortnames
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
I want a "this is brain-damage" quote from Linus for this mess.
VirtualBox or VMWare Virtual Machine at Login
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How to start a virtual machine in X when a user logs in.
Dialog Progress Bar Through Pipe
Sunday, April 12, 2009
How to use dialog to display a script progress bar and communicate progress to it through a named pipe.
Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Here are some pictures from the 2008 Linux Symposium.
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
Monday, July 14, 2008
This is a rather interesting talk that takes some very foundational ideas from open source software development, P2P networks, and social networking and implies that these paradigms can apply to a lot more.
Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.
- Albert Einstein
Projects
Misc Utilities
These are basically small little applications or scripts that actually have real utility, but no better category to put them under.
Misc UtilitiesMisc Utilities
Recursive Directory Download/Upload for Putty SFTP
by digitalpeer, updated Saturday, January 22, 2005
A patch that adds mget and mput commands to Putty's SFTP client.Web Page Change Detector
by digitalpeer, updated Sunday, January 16, 2005
This is a VB 6 app that downloads a page using Winsock every minute and compares it to the original.GNU Autoconf Scripting Snippets
by digitalpeer, updated Thursday, January 13, 2005
An assorted list of autoconf macros and code snippets.How to Check a User Password on Linux
by digitalpeer, updated Saturday, July 31, 2004
This example code will check a user password to see if is the correct password for a given user.