http://www.mukund.org Science is fun! Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:12:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On my workstation, which is one of two machines I use: [muks@jurassic ~]$ uname -a Linux jurassic 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Mar 29 09:15:49 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [muks@jurassic ~]$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head 326 ls 168 cd 92 git 74 clear 66 joe 30 grep 28 ... http://www.mukund.org/2008/04/16/history-meme/ Touch my body has hit #1 this week on the Billboard 100. She has all of my 99 cents. The song is a tune and it seems we're the demographic (you'll have to watch the video for that). What the heck is 802.11n? You don't want me to compile your kernel? ... http://www.mukund.org/2008/04/06/so-the-nerd-is-in-now/ Try Sparse to analyze your C code. Unlike Splint, it works well with the GTK libraries and reports a wide range of issues. It also neatly fits in with the autotools build system, so you can basically run your autotools and prep for a make, and then call: make CC=cgcc cgcc is ... http://www.mukund.org/2008/03/29/try-sparse/ For the last 9 months, I've been working on a SMB/CIFS virtualization product at Brocade. We announced this product to the world yesterday. FME lets sysadmins migrate open files (holding rangelocks and oplocks) that are being used by client applications in a DFS namespace, from one filer to another without disruption. ... http://www.mukund.org/2008/03/20/smbcifs-file-migration-engine/ The last maintainer of tinyproxy transferred over maintainership of the project yesterday. So the fork nanoproxy is now obsolete and has been removed. The tinyproxy project will keep its old name, because existing users know it as that. Visit the tinyproxy project! http://www.mukund.org/2008/03/06/tinyproxy-is-back/ I forked tinyproxy to create nanoproxy today. I've been a regular user of tinyproxy for the past 2 years, as it allows me to masquerade as a user in another country/university pretty easily through a SSH shell account. Unfortunately, tinyproxy has been unmaintained for about 3 years now and is ... http://www.mukund.org/2008/02/11/forked-tinyproxy/ Here are some cool scripts found on the web: pat2pdf will take a US patent number and generate a PDF document of the patent for you. Google patents can also do the same, but it is missing many new patent applications. (Btw it's wonderful to go through some of the old ... http://www.mukund.org/2008/01/27/some-cool-scripts/ Make Magazine has a nice list of items that gadgets should conform to, so that they are user friendly. Most of them are reasonable and should be required. Here are some more that I want: Gadgets must support open formats, and preferrably not have DRM at all No frail wires in the ... http://www.mukund.org/2007/12/24/ethical-gadgets/ I'd asked on this blog for hosting after Nerdfest's demise. While some kind folks offered to pitch in free user accounts, I needed a full server as there were many web applications to run. After a lot of careful evaluation, I decided to go with The Planet for hosting. At ... http://www.mukund.org/2007/12/17/new-host-new-website/ After the demise of Nerdfest, I was/am looking for a dedicated server setup to host projects and other assorted websites such as Graphics Planet. The trouble with popular hosts such as ServerBeach and Layered Tech is that they filter useful ports such as IRC to achieve a false sense ... http://www.mukund.org/2007/12/03/got-a-spare-server/