Now that all of my photos from the Ski Trip and Boston have been posted, I decided to play with some software a bit. Using Mac OS X has been getting boring (everything works, sigh…), so I decided to put some Linux back into my life, among other things. Here are some observations on bleeding-edge [...]
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Bleeding Edge
March 10th, 2008 · Comments
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Writing a web server in bourne shell
March 5th, 2008 · Comments
One of my favorite (now retired) interview questions is: How would you write a webserver in a shell script? It may surprise you how easy it is. The thing that makes it easy is inetd, the “internet super server”. It wraps a TCP or UDP server around any command line application. Using a bit of [...]
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At the Curb
February 26th, 2008 · Comments
Buying a computer for your bustling property management company in 1998: $500 City of Roswell Garbage Pickup Cost: $22/mo Leaving the social security numbers for hundreds of people at your curb: Priceless For everything else, there are the half dozen Visa card numbers you left on the computer.
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My Home Network
February 18th, 2008 · Comments
One question that I try to ask during every interview (and I interview a *lot* of people), is “Tell me about your home network”. You find out a lot about someone’s geeky disposition from this question. Are they the kind of person who is just doing their job, or are they genuinely interested in technology? [...]
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