I was fortunate enough get a chance to play around with DreamHost‘s DreamCompute beta. In addition to being a great implementation of OpenStack, it’s just fun to play with: they gave me a pretty healthy 20 CPUs, 50GB of RAM, and 5 IPs to play with, along with …
more ...A while back, I noticed KMail was starting to run really slowly, and was responsible for a few megabytes per second of disk IO (as reported by iotop). I did some google searching, and found a reference to a possible problem with importing large folders from older versions of KMail …
more ...Had the need recently to generate a bunch of thumbnails for some PDFs we had. ImageMagick to the rescue.
for P in `ls *.pdf`
do echo $P
outfile="thumbs/`echo $P|cut -d . -f 1`.jpg"
convert -quality 50 -geometry 64x82 $P[0] $outfile
done
The [0] tells it to …
more ...Today I was trying to figure out how to ssh into one system, and then automatically ssh into another system. The logical way:
ssh user@outside_host "user@inside_host"
wasn’t working. The logs on both inside and outside hosts would show a connection, but I would get no prompt. I …
more ...So, my contract with WordStream has ended, and I am now in the ranks of the unemployed. If you know of any programming or system administration positions you could point me to, that would be greatly appreciated!
My resume is linked over on the right side of this page. Feel …
more ...After being out of full-time work for 17 business days, I’m starting up a full time job! I’m going to be doing, as I have been for the past 2.5 years, programming and system administration. My title is still in flux, but my duties will be a …
more ...So, due to lack of projects at my current employer, I might be getting laid off come Wednesday. Not the news one wants to hear. :)
If anyone has any leads for telecommuting tech jobs, please let me know. There is a link to my resume at the right of this …
more ...As part of yearly compliance, I have to go through some sort of training on sexual harassment. (Yes, even though I work at home and can’t really harass anyone.) I don’t particularly mind, it’s not that onerous. What I do mind, however, is having to redo sections …
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