Random Stuff

• Taming Firefox
• Ruby 1.9
• Resetting Dell Powerconnect Switch Passwords
• Making hme1 probe correctly on Sun Netra t1 105 servers
• hacking trac so it shows svn usernames for people without email addresses in the RSS feed

To convert asterisk gsm files to wav files it can still play:

 sox tt-weasels.gsm -r 8000 -b -c 1 -u -2 tt-weasels.wav

• Starting FORTH - online edition

Upgrading pkgsrc bootstrapped packages (bmake install-sh nawk nbsed pax tnftp bootstrap-mk-files):

bmake USE_DESTDIR=full package
rm /var/db/pkg/<pkgname>-<pkgversion>/+PRESERVE
pkg_delete "<pkgname>*"
pkg_add /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All/<pkgname>-<pkgversion>.tgz
touch /var/db/pkg/<pkgname>-<pkgversion>/+PRESERVE

• List of Operating System Defines - Handy for doing OS checking in the C preprocessor.

• Reverse engineering DOS binaries - Install the perl libwww stuff if it bitches about LWP/Simple

• Stian's CLI currency converter