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Posted 08-22-2019 at 11:53 PM byttk (Unpopular Positions: One Geek's Take)
So .. in this post (post #323 in case that link is flawed) I referenced my unixadminbot project for illustration, and someone else in the thread expressed interest in using it.
The problem is that the original unixadminbot is the intellectual property of The Internet Archive, and is embarrassingly horrible code anyway. I've been meaning to do a "cleanroom re-implementation" of it anyway, so I could clean up the code, generalize it a bit, and open source it for the world...
Posted 06-25-2017 at 03:19 PM byttk (Unpopular Positions: One Geek's Take)
I've started a new blog, Entropy Pump, hosted on my own colo server.
I'm not sure yet what the division of labor is going to be between Entropy Pump and this LinuxQuestions blog. The current notion is to make the LQ blog mostly about software (and Linux in particular) and Entropy Pump about everything else.
If that pans out, I will update the description of the LQ blog accordingly.
Posted 07-31-2015 at 10:47 AM byttk (Unpopular Positions: One Geek's Take)
The other day I thought, not for the first time, that it was kind of dumb to be manually building my stripped-down Slackware install tarball, and having to remember the tweaks I like having done to the system after "setup" but before the first system boot. I end up forgetting things, getting frustrated at the minimalist busybox-based setup environment, and going back and making some changes after first boot instead of before (and as often as not sneakernetting files to the new system...
Posted 04-01-2015 at 03:15 PM byttk (Unpopular Positions: One Geek's Take)
Some years ago, I wrote a little utility called "sel", short for "select" (to avoid confusion with bash's "select" builtin).
It's more or less SQL's "select" statement for the command line, reading structured data on stdin and writing structured data on stdout, optionally filtering rows (like a structured-data-savvy grep) and creating / removing / reordering columns and changing the format. For instance, it could read CSV in and write tab-delimited...
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