How the Other Half Lives

 Main, Music  Comments Off
Jan 182008
 

My favorite music, running on decades now, has been instrumental music — electric guitar by Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen, etc., — or at least vocal music in non-English like hippy hare krishna music by Rasa, or new age music by Kevin Wood. I’d prefer to listen to the music without being distracted by the words. However, I have an eMusic subscription and decided to check out the alternative world, with real live English lyrics. Continue reading »

Sparklines

 Computers, Main  Comments Off
Jan 182008
 

I spend a good deal of time now working on effective, efficient communication. It is a sin to waste someone’s time. If you have to produce documentation, investigate sparklines (“Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics”). Edward Tufte‘s writing should be required reading for almost any profession I can think of.

Jan 182008
 

Sun: 4137237 patchadd 106300-01 results in rm -rf / as root (That’s bad)

Microsoft: Computer Hangs While Booting with HP 6L Printer out of Paper (paper-powered pc’s ??? FEED ME!!!)

And I can’t find it now, but back around 12 years ago or so, uninstalling Norton Antivirus resulted in deleting all files not in use. That amuses me.

 

Visual Basic implementation of Double Metaphone. I posted it to Planet Source Code several years back, but I want a local copy…..

 

Here’s the free (it doesn’t cost money) Windows software I use. Continue reading »

 

Convert ListProc .subscribers file to format suitable for emailing in a LISTSERV //JOB .

convert_subscriberspl.txt

Continue reading »

Jan 112008
 

Solaris 10 SMF manifest for taiclockd.

Continue reading »

figgerips.pl

 Main  Comments Off
Jan 092008
 

Here’s a quick script to figger out [sub]totals of a list of IP ranges.  Easy, but handy.
Continue reading »

© 2011 Jason Filley - SnakeLegs Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha