Posted in Linux/Unix/OpenSource, Personal by: sean
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31 Mar
The folks over at Proven Scaling offered to send three people to the MySQL conference in Santa Clara at the end of the month. I put my name in and won! Unfortunately my wife’s at a conference herself those days, so I can’t go. Major bummer! I think it’s wonderful that a company is offering [...]
Posted in Linux/Unix/OpenSource by: sean
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12 Mar
I’m doing some work with NetFlow accounting. FlowScan parses the data captured by flow-tools. However, FlowScan needs Cflow.pm which has to be specially compiled to work with flow-tools, because it’s made for Caida’s now defunct cflowd. If you don’t compile Cflow.pm using the flow-tools library, you get something like “Invalid index in cflowd flow file: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized by: sean
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06 Mar
There’s lots of documents out there on how to download the latest time zone data and apply it manually. In the interests of proper management though, I like using RPM to do pretty much everything. The problem is that Fedora Legacy has disbanded, so I can’t get patches for my FC1 and FC4 systems. The [...]
Posted in Engineering by: sean
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02 Mar
I’ve got a couple of cheap cordless drills, one’s a 9.6 volt and the other is 18.2 volts. They work well, but the annoying thing is the charger isn’t “smart”. By smart, I mean that it will continue to charge the battery even after it’s been charged. With NiCad batteries this means that the batteries [...]