I lusted, I acquired, I loved and, alas, I lost. The Galaxy S3 was quite the phone. Big and slightly curved. The second day I had it fell and the screen cracked but it still worked. Even when a splinter…
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Internet privacy opinion after the NSA revelations
Made me laugh Transcript The Philosopher: Megan: “Privacy” is an impractical way to think about data in a digital world so unlike the one in which our soci– Ponytail: So bored. The Crypto Nut: Cueball: My data is safe behind…
All configuration variables in Moodle code
Ever wonder what configuration variables lie withing the moodle code? Well you have the config.php file but that only tells you a small fraction of the available configuration variables. Why might you need to know this? Well it is interesting…
Linus Torvalds responds to petition to remove RdRand from /dev/random
Really funny petition at http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/linus-torvalds-remove-rdrand-from-dev-random-4 Linus’ reply: Where do I start a petition to raise the IQ and kernel knowledge of people? Guys, go read drivers/char/random.c. Then, learn about cryptography. Finally, come back here and admit to the world that…
Hello again
Well here is the blog once again. This is the second blog at this domain, gl.ib.ly, the first one disappeared for unknown reasons. Now it’s back. The last bog was popular, unbelievably popular, for reasons that escape me. Anyway, here’s…
Installing SNMPD (with remote access) on Debian 5/Lenny
Today we’re installing snmpd so that we can query our debian server from another remote server that will use snmp in alert scripts and pretty graphing software. Snmpd installation is a little obtuse so here is how to do the…
Fixing binary merge conflicts in git
Git is an awesome tool for managing your code. However, it does take a while to get used to doing things in git. One question I get asked a bit too often is “how do I resolve binary merge conflicts”?…
Encoding audio and removing file extensions from files
Earlier today I got a massive SCORM object that contained lots of mp3 files. They were all high quality files, so I wanted to cut them down in size for web use. For this purpose I am using ffmpeg which you can…
All configuration variables in Moodle code – Part two
Earlier we looked at how you can extract a list of all the $CFG variables in your Moodle code. Now that’s not of much use! We need to know where in the code all these variables hide. I feel some spooky awk a…
Tagged with: awk, cfg, computers, configuration variables, grep, moodle, one liners
Posted in Computing, Stuff
Posted in Computing, Stuff
Searching compressed Apache logs
From time to time things tend to go wrong and systems tend to go crazy. Sometimes these errors are more of nuisance than anything else, an intermittent annoyance you’d prefer not to investigate — trawling through logs is a pain in…