As some of you know, I went to a bit of effort to create a script that tries as many ways as possible to generate random numbers. Some would say I went a bit too far. Overboard. So to speak. So recently I’ve been working on rewriting my passphrase generator […]
[160309/20:49][rawiri@minty ~]$ rand -h rand – generate random positive integers Optional Arguments: -c [count. Number of numbers (Default:1)] -d [debug. Tells you which processing method is used (Default:off)] -h [help] -m [minimum number (Default:1)] -M [maximum number (Default:9223372036854775807)] TL;DR: I made a script that should generate a random integer for […]
For those of you who don’t know, shellcheck.net is a fantastic resource for improving your shell scripts. When I came across it, I felt that I was a pretty good scripter. How wrong I was. Using shellcheck has probably been the single most influential factor on my scripting since the […]
Quality ramblers rejoice! I’m back for a rare quality ramble. Articles for sorting out SSL configs are aplenty if you’re after nginx or Apache, but for squid they’re sadly lacking. So here we are. I have a client who has some pokey old squid reverse proxies. They’re running on RHEL5 […]
Royksopp – A Higher Place I recently moved house, to move in with my girlfriend. To make things simple, I sold my old HTPC (a first gen Mac Mini, slightly warmed over and with a 1TB external drive) and home theater to the mates whose flat I was departing. This […]
Moby – Disco Lies Flax search is a search engine based on the powerful Xapian search engine. Basically it’s Xapian pre-configured with a nice UI and some extra features, and their business model is custom configuration and support, while offering Flax Basic as a taster. At the moment Flax Basic […]
Eagle Eye Cherry – Permanent Tears Subsonic is a brilliant piece of software that you can use to stream your music collection over the web. Imagine being able to login from a friend’s place and share with them realtime the tune that’s come up in conversation, or imagine being able […]
1 Giant Leap – Nothing Wrong With Me I was having a hard time figuring out how to migrate Cacti from one box to another, or more specifically I could do the migration by the book but nothing was working, so after much head scratching and googling I’m going to […]
Paul McLaney – Don’t Wanna Know I’m using Zimbra Desktop on KDE4.1 as Thunderbird seems to be a little crash-happy, and it also seems appropriate that I jump right into all things Zimbra if I’m going to be working on a Zimbra project. Zimbra Desktop is currently at Beta-3 and […]
Lemon Jelly – Ramblin’ Man I have been quite busy lately working with the Zimbra platform – trying to figure out a path to upgrade our existing infrastructure at work (OpenLDAP, Postfix, Mailman, SquirrelMail, SpamAssassin, Amavis, Mailzu etc) and the more I look at it, learn about it and work […]