solo is a very simple script 10 lines that prevents a program from running more than one copy at a time. It is useful with cron to make sure that a job doesn’t run before a previous one has finished. via solo – prevent simultaneous instances.
Create a file named, say, gtkrc-eclipse: style “eclipse” { font_name = “Sans Condensed 8” } class “GtkWidget” style “eclipse” Then set a certain environment variable when invoking eclipse: $ GTK2_RC_FILES=gtkrc-eclipse eclipse via eclipse – How can I configure the font size for the tree item in the package explorer in ecilpse – Stack Overflow. And …
Usn’s IT Blog » Oracle 11g JDBC driver hangs blocked by /dev/random – entropy pool empty. Perhaps a good idea to monitor your entropy pool on Linux servers.
I’ve noticed more spam emails get into my Gmail INBOX lately, so decided to scan it with SpamAssassin. The Perl commandline script (gmail-spamassassin) I wrote to do this can be downloaded from GitHub. I also subclassed Net::IMAP::Simple to support Gmail’s IMAP extensions, so you’ll need Gmail.pm from the repository too. I intend to release Net::IMAP::Simple::Gmail …
Dr. Dobbs – FEATURES http://m.drdobbs.com/144530/show/f81cab13b1f81aaab2cd4506173825f0/? I like YAML too.
The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet – CloudFlare blog. Does your DNS server support open recursion? If so lock it down!
Tutorial: Gathering data with the Scrapy framework. I found this much easier to follow than the official docs and more relevant to my use case. Unfortunately the site he uses as an example no longer exists, but that didn’t affect me.
I’ve written two nagios checks recently. The first, for simple http checking of websites has its own repo: check_pycurl The second check_init_service, which checks if init scripts are running on a Linux systems is in a repo I’ve set up for this and future checks: jp_nagios_checks.
Why can’t readers decide on a common configuration file that stores subscribed feeds (obviously), items read in those feeds and so on. This could then be stored either locally or more usefully in the “cloud” on Dropbox, Box.com, a personal WebDAV location, etc allowing multiple readers to keep up to date.
Emacs: Text Pattern Matching (regex) tutorial. I like this: