Sean’s Obsessions

Linux Unwired
Weeks, Dumbill, Jepson
O’Reilly, 2004
$24.95USD/$36.95CDN
While Windows users have no problem using all the wireless gear out there, not everything is supported in Linux. Add to this the command line tools for dealing with wireless, and you have a recipe for confusion. “Linux Unwired” demystifies the Linux Wireless system, and provides guidance for purchasers […]

One common thing in systems administration is “fiddling with knobs”. You know, some value that has to be changed, that affects results. One approach is to randomly try values, the other is to use a systematic approach.
I use the excellent picprog software to burn PIC microcontrollers on occasion. One day, after not […]

I found this article about a perl script that downloads True Type fonts from http://grsites.com/fonts/. Looking at the script, it’s about 100 lines of fairly dense, comment-less code that’s quite tied to the web page and url structure that it’s scraping. I rewrote it using WWW::Mechanize in 33 lines including comments and it […]

Fedora uses Apache 2 and mod_perl2, which is completely incompatible with Movable Type. Even under Apache::compat, there are a lot of problems which I got tired of debugging.
Since I’m using it for SmokePing, I already had CGI::Speedy installed, and figured I’d try it with Movable Type. The only thing to change is the […]

I’m in downtown Toronto next week for some training, not sure of the schedule, but let me know if you want to hook up for a beer.
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