http://www.genehack.org purveyor of fine links since 1998 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:03:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My mail filter report from yesterday: Total Number Folder ----- ------ ------ 35457 5 .BOUNCES/ 12131742 3090 .SPAM/ 1957617 184 .maildir/ ----- ------ 14124816 3279 Yes kids, over 3000 mails and ... http://www.genehack.org/2008/03/14/the-first-thing-we-do-lets-kill-all-the-spammers/ Voting in first round of Beer Madness now open USENIX makes old proceedings freely available on-line http://www.genehack.org/2008/03/13/couple-quick-links/ Introducing Catalyst -- slides from a jrockway talk Devel::NYTProf is the hot new profiler in town -- there's some code at work that should maybe meet this profiler gibak -- git-based backups. It's a desert topping, it's a floor wax... Patch deployment via BitTorrent We don't understand the orbital mechanics of (relatively) small objects ... http://www.genehack.org/2008/03/10/tab-dump-20080310/ I've been using Hiveminder for several months now and I'm fairly happy with it -- the task review interface in particular is a big win for me, as I can take 5 or 10 minutes in the morning and carve out a chunk of things that I can then focus ... http://www.genehack.org/2008/03/09/sunday-afternoon-hacking/ Kansas HS refuses female official -- my high school used to compete against this high school. No idea they were this crazy. Full Lunar Eclipse in the Americas tonight -- supposed to be snowing here, I think The rules of optimization club -- there are several people who I would like to ... http://www.genehack.org/2008/02/20/tab-dump-20080220/ First person account of anonymous CoS protest in London. Very interesting; great pics, including: The CoS has a building in DC near Dupont Circle; was there any protest activity there? http://www.genehack.org/2008/02/13/anonymous/ RIP Sheldon Brown. Memorial rides April 1st? The Great British Venn Diagram http://cpan.org/scripts/ is a generally useful looking thing that I just found out about Dormando's [crappy] Operations Mantras -- stuff to agree and disagree with, but thought-provoking LISA '08 CFP New travel document requirements for USA citizens -- freedom on the march Lego manufacturing defect ... http://www.genehack.org/2008/02/13/tab-dump-20080213/ Or, since I haven't made much recent progress at it, "What I've been trying to do while doing all the other stuff required by life": I'm writing my own blog engine/CMS thing. I'm doing this for several reasons. First, it's partly because I think it's a fun thing to do ... http://www.genehack.org/2008/01/29/what-ive-been-doing/ been a while. Emergency Elisp -- break glass in case, yadda yadda Rules of Sysadmins. At $ORK, we call #8 The Friday Rule; I just wish all my cow-orkers respected it. I'd add a corrollary to rule #4: there is a better way, but you don't have the time to implement it... Stop ... http://www.genehack.org/2008/01/29/tab-dump-20080129/ As I mentioned last week, I've been working on a little reading list management tool. I'm using App::Cmd as the framework, which has been a somewhat frustrating but ultimately worthwhile choice. I first learned of App::Cmd at the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, through a talk given by the module's author Ricardo Signes. ... http://www.genehack.org/2008/01/09/testing-appcmd/