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Life is Perfectly Fair

almost 2 years ago by Tekhne on Tekhne.
It bugs me when people say “life isn’t fair.” For one, it’s a disempowering belief. It encourages people to act as victims, or to...

Making a Sinatra Web Application Work as a CGI

almost 2 years ago by Tekhne on Tekhne.
Here’s how I got a Sinatra version 1.0 web application to work via CGI using Rack version 1.1.0 behind an Apache httpd version 2.2.15 web server on...

Book Review: Business Stripped Bare. Rating: 2/4.

~2 years ago by Tekhne on Tekhne.
Based on the little bit I know, I’m a fan of Richard Branson. However, his book “Business Stripped Bare” is fairly shallow. I didn’...

Book Review: The Talent Code. Rating: 2/4.

~2 years ago by Tekhne on Tekhne.
I couldn’t finish “The Talent Code” by Daniel Coyle. Sorry. The writing isn’t too bad, but there’s just not enough rigorous...

Making Ruby work with SELinux on Fedora

over 2 years ago by Tekhne on Tekhne.
The version of Ruby that comes with Fedora 12 is: I wanted to try some things with the latest version of Ruby which is 1.9.1-p376. So, I compiled it and...

My Syndrome

over 2 years ago by Tekhne on Tekhne.
I have a syndrome. I’m constantly looking at how to simplify things or make them more efficient. Things I’m actually able to make simpler or...

Rails, git and Empty Directories

~4 years ago by Tekhne on Tekhne.
It seems that Git ignores empty directories by default, just like Mercurial. Unfortunately, when you create a new Rails project, you also create empty directories...

DTrace One-Liner: Which Processes Doing I/O to Which File Systems?

~4 years ago by Tekhne on Tekhne.
I recently had to figure out which processes on a Solaris 10 system were writing to which file systems, and things like lsof weren’t helping. Here...

Compiling hping3 on SUSE Linux 10.1

~4 years ago by Tekhne on Tekhne.
I had some trouble compiling the hping3 command on SUSE Linux 10.1. The 10.1 version of SUSE is a little bit old at this point and I’m using the libpcap...

Data Matters, but So Do Algorithms

~4 years ago by Tekhne on Tekhne.
I just read this post about the importance of data over applications. It reminded me of a passage from Eric Raymond, in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, where...