October 27, 2011
Via careful use of nroff directives and comments, it’s possible to make a Ruby script that works both as a command line utility you can run, and as a man page. It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping. This is handy, as it means you can distribute both the utility and the documentation in [...]
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July 19, 2011
How to get your IBM Lotus Domino server to send its logs to syslog.
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December 31, 2010
Recently on the ruby-core mailing list, someone asked why Ruby doesn’t have multi-line comments. I did a few searches, and didn’t find much discussion of the evils of multi-line comments. I thought it was common knowledge that they were a bad thing and a historical mistake made by Kernighan and Ritchie, but apparently not. So, [...]
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May 7, 2010
Suppose you want to install a DB2 server, and connect to it from some client software. If you browse the IBM DB2 Software pages, you’ll soon find that there’s a bewildering array of products with confusingly similar names. For example, IBM Data Server Client and IBM Data Server Runtime Client are two different things. Fortunately, [...]
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April 12, 2010
A script to safely and automatically remove unneeded kernels from Ubuntu systems.
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January 31, 2010
In October of last year, someone built a new RubyGems hosting site called Gemcutter. Everyone liked it so much that GitHub decided to stop offering RubyGem hosting, and point people at Gemcutter instead. Then the maintainer of RubyGems decided to make Gemcutter the default repository for gems when you install RubyGems. Then RubyForge decided to [...]
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