March 2011
2 posts
man 8 sudo
NAME
sudo, sudoedit - execute a command as another user
DESCRIPTION
sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file. The real and effective uid and gid are set to match those of the target user as specified in the passwd file and the group vector is initialized based on the group file (unless the -P option was specified). If...
Chef - Infrastructure Automation
(12:39:33 PM) lee: more fun facts about chef + opscode (12:39:53 PM) lee: they broke client/server compatibility and ALL dependent gems with the latest release (12:40:38 PM) lee: a good example of bad engineering, since an upgrade is not really an upgrade, it’s the virtual machine equivalent of a clean install (12:40:55 PM) lee: modular software…GONE WILD!
October 2009
8 posts
Free Book. Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review,...
Smart Bears…oooh, my favorite! The title of this book, “Free Book” immediately caught my attention so I ordered it from their online eCommerce web site page. They informed me that it will take 15 days to ship the book to my location. Lesser authors might be intimidated by the challenge of writing a book review before reading the book. That’s right, lesser authors. This book...
Wireshark - The Network Protocol Analyzer
APPROVED! Software which informs the user of an activity called “registering dissector” during initialization can only be awesome. I’ll bet you can break things with this application. At least you should be able to learn how to break things real good. In the words of Ice-T, “these are all important parts, that thing right there, if that doesn’t work you’re...
Crowdsourcing (why the power of the crowd is...
Crowdsourcing (why the power of the crowd is driving the future of business), by Jeff Howe, Crown Business 2008.
The serious business of software is hearty subject. Like most hearty subjects, I choose not to begin at the first page of the text but to jump directly to the conclusion. This 288 page book has a 9 page conclusion. This is 8 pages too many. I will summarize this conclusion:
If you...
Movies4gold.com
http://movies4gold.com
How do I put the gold I earned from playing WoW for the last 96 hours in a Netflix envelope? IMPOSSIBLE! On the off chance the creator of this web 20 application is referring to Aurum, the transition metal with the atomic number of 79, how is he going to prevent the gold from falling out of the little oval shaped cut out in each envelope? What about DVD theft? 4 out of 5...
The Ruby Programming Language, version 1.8
I don’t understand the flock of programmers who are striving for the day when they can type `ruby -r writemycode -e “run”` and have the program do something that solves a problem rather than creating a new one.
5 out of 5 exceptions thrown
http://www.screenr.com
http://www.screenr.com
I don’t understand the use of a program that puts my browser into an endless loop of consuming 100% CPU and not responding to mouse events. What does it do on your computer?
4 out of 5 segfaults.