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Overriding the displayed hostname in OS X

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:43:34 -0800

Overriding the displayed hostname in OS X :

sudo scutil --set HostName

A stopped clock is right twice a day, and a ticket queue is...

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:38:00 -0800

A stopped clock is right twice a day, and a ticket queue is empty twice in a geek’s tenure.

Sadness in the contemporary world. (artist unknown)

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:20:16 -0700

Sadness in the contemporary world. (artist unknown)

Openvz pretty printing disk usage

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 20:51:11 -0700

Second verse almost the same as the first.

/usr/sbin/vzlist -o ctid,hostname,diskspace,diskspace.s | \ awk 'BEGIN { totalused=0; totalquota=0; } \ $1 ~ /CTID/ { printf "%5s %20s %6s %6s\n", $1, $2, "used", "quota"; next; } \ $1 ~ /[0-9]+/ { totalused += $3; totalquota += $4; split($2, arr, /\./); \ printf "%5s %20s %6.2f %6.2f\n", $1, arr[1], $3 / 1024 / 1024, $4 / 1024 / 1024; } \ END { printf "total %20s %6.2f %6.2f\n", "", totalused / 1024 / 1024, totalquota / 1024 / 1024; }'

Pretty printing openvz memory allocation

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:53:00 -0700

awk: when you can’t be bothered to write a proper while loop.

/usr/sbin/vzlist -o ctid,hostname,privvmpages.b | \ awk 'BEGIN { total=0; } $1 ~ /CTID/ { printf "%5s %20s %5s\n", $1, $2, "mem"; next; } \ $1 ~ /[0-9]+/ { total += $3; \ split($2, arr, /\./); printf "%5s %20s %5.2f\n", $1, arr[1], $3 * 4 / 1024 / 1024; } \ END { printf "total %20s %5.2f\n", "", total * 4 / 1024 / 1024; }'

"You’re east coast, not New Mexico. If you aren’t used to seeing so much snow, you have to fake that..."

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:58:33 -0800

“You’re east coast, not New Mexico. If you aren’t used to seeing so much snow, you have to fake that you are used to it, puff up your chest and go to work. No goddamn excuses, I don’t want to hear “but we don’t have plows” You’re a goddamn American!”

- eject: Here’s the part where I tease you about Snow in America

I moved away from the snow so I wouldn’t have to feel like a pansy while making excuses.

"HAVE YOU EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT THIS PROJECT FOR MORE THAN A MILLISECOND? THE SPEC FOR THIS PROJECT WILL..."

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:08:03 -0700

“HAVE YOU EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT THIS PROJECT FOR MORE THAN A MILLISECOND? THE SPEC FOR THIS PROJECT WILL BE 5,000 PAGES! IT WILL TAKE THOUSANDS OF MAN-YEARS TO IMPLEMENT, AND *NOBODY* WILL UNDERSTAND HOW IT WORKS OR HOW TO USE IT, EVEN IF WE SOMEHOW MANAGE TO LAUNCH IT!”

- The thought that has gone through every software developer’s mind at some point during a big project, as channeled throuh the inimitable Steve Yegge.

Zeppelin Sightings: Over Stanford this Weekend

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:25:17 -0700

Zeppelin Sightings: Over Stanford this Weekend:

They put up one of my airship photos.

Square Wave, also by Steve Hanov. Fanboyish to post two links...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:59:31 -0700

Square Wave, also by Steve Hanov. Fanboyish to post two links back-to-back but this one hit a little too close to home for me.

How a programmer reads your resume by Steve Hanov. Seems like...

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:51:18 -0700

How a programmer reads your resume by Steve Hanov. Seems like this would work pretty well. By way of Jeremy Zawodny.

"Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on “white..."

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:28:00 -0700

“Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on “white people with blue eyes” and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes.”

- I’m usually all about blaming whitey for most troubles, but maybe this is a bit much. From the Financial Times, by way of a colleague. (My eyes are green, and probably bloodshot by the way.)

Creme That Egg! (via allonewordplease) — a Rube Goldberg...

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:37:17 -0700

Creme That Egg! (via allonewordplease) — a Rube Goldberg contraption can make pretty much anything better.

"The file system is not “truncating” files. The application is truncating the files, or..."

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:01:00 -0700

“The file system is not “truncating” files. The application is truncating the files, or is constantly overwriting the files using the rename system call. This is a fundamentally unsafe thing to do, and ext3 just happened to paper things over.”

- Theodore Ts’o in a bug comment on how data loss can occur on Ext4. Knowing how the file system works is what separates real programmers from people that hack things together (i.e. people like me). By way of Jeremy Zawodny.

Count files in subdirectories

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:08:00 -0800

find . -type f -print | awk '{ FS="/"; print $2; }' | uniq -c | sort -n

There’s not an easy way (as far as I know) to get a summary of how many files are in each subdirectory of a given parent directory, so I came up with this one-liner.

"Customer: ‘You’re part computer?’ Me: ‘Yes sir, I am a cyborg.’"

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:16:00 -0800

“Customer: ‘You’re part computer?’
Me: ‘Yes sir, I am a cyborg.’”

- Not Always Right. I always wanted to say something like this when I worked tech support.

Flickr: The Far side Reenactments Pool

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:57:04 -0800

Flickr: The Far side Reenactments Pool:

by way of Jeff Atwood.

I LEGO N.Y. - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:01:03 -0800

I LEGO N.Y. - Abstract City Blog - NYTimes.com:

A few lego bricks can illustrate the world. By way of my mom(!).

Flickr: In Numerical Order

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:25:44 -0800

Flickr: In Numerical Order:

Number-themed pictures posted in numerical order. Something greater than or equal to 1512 is next.

Taking photos of police officers could be considered a crime in the UK

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:23:44 -0800

Taking photos of police officers could be considered a crime in the UK:

From the British Journal of Photography, by way of Paul Buchheit.

Gizmodo: Cable Action Figures

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:18:06 -0800

Gizmodo: Cable Action Figures:

They’re not really made out of ethernet cable, it’s higher gauge stuff. But still, cool. My colleague thinks we shoudld attach cockroaches to them and use them as our minions.