So, the next milestone for AllTray on the path here is the 0.7.4dev release. This milestone is already in Launchpad with bugs associated with it, of course. There are a few iffy things on that list, though—things that either I am not entirely sure about how to implement or things that I am not sure [...]
So, I am still trying to work out some issues with my home network, and I needed a better way to look at the data. I learned a bit of awk, and came up with this: #!/usr/bin/awk -f # # Generate a CSV from the output of ping-report # BEGIN { OFS=”,” print “Downtime Start”,”Downtime [...]
I read an article today on things some guy things we should not do in C#. It’s title is designed to evoke response, much like Knuth’s paper Structured Programming with go to Statements. The similarity stops there, though, because the post seems to assume that everyone reading it is a bumbling idiot. The first two [...]
Today, I had a need to check out the reliability of my connection. So, I wrote a small program to do just that, and adapted a script I found on the Internet. So, here they are: #!/usr/bin/expect # Description: unbuffer stdout of a program # Author: Don Libes, NIST set stty_init “-opost” eval spawn -noecho [...]
Once upon a time, adequate space was a rare thing to come across, and so many UNIX and UNIX-like systems set aside an allocation of space reserved for root when a filesystem is formatted. This usually is done as a percentage of the filesystem—by default with ext{2,3,4} file systems, that is 5%. This tends to [...]
Recently, I came upon Vala, the new programming language that has been created which is similar in nature to C#, but compiles to C (and thus to an efficient native executable). This is the kind of interesting thing that can come from research with managed code systems—and like any new technology that someone gets the [...]
Just a quick set of notes I accumulated earlier when I installed the new JRE on a couple of 64-bit (AMD64) Intrepid machines. Download the JRE or the JDK for 6u12 from Sun Microsystem’s Java download page. Select the bin option, NOT the RPM. Save the file to your home directory. When the download is [...]
So I was finding myself working on AllTray and finding myself kinda wishing for some object-oriented way to do things. I realized that I was likely reinventing the wheel while working on my current refactoring branch, and that I shouldn’t do that. So I started reading the GObject Reference Manual to see what I could [...]
Hrm. Not sure what I should do about this one. GUI systems programming is a concept that is new to me, at least in all of its low-level glory. Traditionally, I write things in C# because I really like that language. Eventually, I’d love to see the majority of the software out there using something [...]
So, I am back in GA (got back yesterday late afternoon) and am finding that I have to force myself to do anything that isn’t strictly relaxing. That having been said, I did get the movement of AllTray to Launchpad done while I was in Toledo—you can now go to its project page on Launchpad [...]
