Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Nov 29, 2009, 5:27 pm
I’m very happy with my new CD player.It came with an older firmware on it, and supposedly the new ones will play OGGs, so I decided to upgrade. I downloaded version 2.80 of the firmware from he...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Nov 27, 2009, 10:15 am
I’ve been using Kopete on my quest to convert to KDE, and I’ve been extremely annoyed by previous conversions showing up in my chat windows. The option to disable it didn’t seem to ...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Nov 19, 2009, 7:58 am
So, recently, I installed Ubuntu karmic cleanly on my main desktop machine here at home, and I have really liked it. I even switched to KDE, and everything has been working better than it had been in...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Nov 12, 2009, 8:41 am
OOC is cool.  Yesterday I started writing some code in it after reading about it on the github blog.  Here is the first result: I’m extremely happy with how well this performs.  Using the la...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Nov 7, 2009, 9:41 pm
I used to use lirc with mplayer to allow my Packard Bell crappy remote to work awesomely, but I have since lost that configuration and switched to smplayer, since it’s awesome.  Today, I figure...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Oct 3, 2009, 9:11 pm
It’s a sad day when a random one-hit wonder band who stole your name gets a higher page rank in Google than you do. Poor Franz Ferdinand.  I’ll bet he’s rolling in his grave.  He ...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Sep 28, 2009, 3:15 pm
I was having a bunch of trouble today importing my old MySQL amarok database into the new nightly version of amarok I installed.  The Amarok Wiki had a great section on how to convert a MySQL Amarok ...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Sep 25, 2009, 4:56 pm
So, there I was, watching Firefox 3 thrash my CPU and IO, when I decided that I needed a replacement.  Something elegant, fast, preferably threaded… oh!  Google Chrome!  So, I finally found a...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Sep 24, 2009, 4:35 pm
So, Badass of the Week is awesome. We all know that. But why don’t just offer an RSS feed!? I made one out of spite. I did it, yet again, using Ruby, HPricot, and RSS Maker. Get it here.
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Sep 10, 2009, 12:04 am
This is possibly the best one-liner I’ve ever written: gcc -x c -o /tmp/out - -lgmp <<< '#include #include #include #include #include void omg_i_love_leonardo_of_pisa(uint32_t num, mpz...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Sep 4, 2009, 1:38 am
Postgres has the same type of ability MySQL has to read in files, yet much nicer syntax. LOAD DATA INFILE from MySQL is just COPY in postgres. I decided to try having it read from a named pipe today...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Aug 23, 2009, 9:53 am

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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Aug 22, 2009, 10:15 pm
I found out from this site that GPG can be used to generate random text for passwords. Here’s the command: gpg --gen-random 1 20 | gpg --enarmor | sed -n 5p Very simple. I may have to use this ...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Aug 11, 2009, 12:56 am
I called Citibank tonight to confirm that one of my checks I deposited was finally collected.  This is a good thing to ask your bank if you are concerned that a check might bounce.  They indicated, ...
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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Jul 19, 2009, 8:03 pm

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Erik G. posted an article on Ruby stole my o`o - Jul 5, 2009, 3:42 pm

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