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In case you thought a distro website doesn’t have much complexity behind it, I present you with the database diagram for the archweb Django application that is the face of the Arch Linux website.

I thought I’d share a script I whipped up to make it a lot easier to play certain radio streams from the command line.

Since there was a decent amount of interest in my prior post about composing my résumé in LaTeX, I put together a “template” and an example PDF based off of my actual résumé.

I found a helpful post a while back explaining how to get the photos off your iPhone (I have an iPhone 3G but this should work for the 3GS and the original as well) using digiKam.

There have been plenty of articles and opinion regarding stand-up desks as a place to get work done.

I’m guessing most of you have seen the comic explaining how a programmer reads your résumé.

Git introduced a new transfer protocol in version 1.6.6 known as “smart HTTP”, and every bit of documentation I’ve seen and read so far showed how to get it up and running in Apache.

Because it is what I’ve been spending most of my Arch free time on lately, I thought I’d make another quick post on what’s happening with the Arch Linux website.

Just wanted to drop a quick note saying Slicehost has finally released a new kernel that fixes all of the issues I had pointed out in the 2.6.31-302-rs build.

I finally got around to giving the site that is the face of Arch Linux its long-deserved refresher today.

A while back, I posted about a long-needed Slicehost kernel upgrade from a 2.6.24 to a 2.6.31 build.

It’s already gone across the Arch Planet feed from a few other people’s blogs, but an interview with the Arch Linux Team was published today.

Subversion was the first serious open-source (and free) version control systems to be a worthy rival to CVS.

GCC has a rather crazy syntax that I discovered tonight for the first time, and I thought I’d share so you don’t have to dig for a half hour like I did to find out what it is and how it works.

Hot tip: the last matching entry in your sudoers file wins.

I’ve been running OpenWrt on my Linksys WRT54GL router for some time.

21 months ago, I bought the new on the scene Asus Eee 701.

I rented the Blu-ray disc of Pineapple Express from Netflix the other day, and had a real fun time (read: had problems) getting it to play on my Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-ray player.

Netflix Chicago Centers I’ve been a happy Netflix customer for almost 2 years now, and in all that time, I’ve gotten my DVDs from three shipping locations.

I decided to reboot my slice today after more than 70 days of uptime.

I figured it was time for a little visual refresh, so I gave it a shot tonight.

Finally, one of my posts went big time and got linked from a site!

So I finally pulled the trigger about two weeks ago and decided to order cable for my apartment.

I rebuilt the Eee kernel tonight with a handful of changes since the last one I released.

A Netflix email showed up in my Gmail inbox today, and it looked different than I had ever seen- a little Netflix logo showed up right in the inbox view, and when I clicked on it, there was a whole fancy pane below the email containing movie recommendatio…

With the release of stable kernel 2.6.31.1, I got in to the patching game again. 6 patches have been backported from the 2.6.32 scheduler updates, which has been under heavy scrutiny since BFS (Brain Fuck Scheduler, Con Kolivas’ latest creation) and the L…

I built and released kernel 2.6.31 tonight for the Eee PC.

As previously promised, here is the python script I am currently using on my phone to keep the SMS database and application all nice and tidy.

Thank god for version control and being able to rescue yourself from stupidity.

I thought I’d share with you guys how the SMS database has changed in iPhone OS 3.0.

sed can be a powerful but tricky tool to master, but it rose to the occasion tonight for cleaning up several old HTML pages.

With the Django 1.1 release, a new feature called proxy models was introduced.

Home audio is one of those things where you keep wanting to improve what you have.

With the release of kernel-eee-2.6.30-2 tonight, I’ve made the switch to KMS (kernel mode-setting) being enabled by default.

Since writing a post a while back about my home theater setup, not much had changed, or at least until my quick to pull the trigger purchase of a Blu-ray player on Amazon last weekend.

When I moved my blog from DreamHost to Slicehost for toofishes.net, I also took the plunge and switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL as the backing database for this Django web application.

If you have ever home-rolled JavaScript to do DOM traversal and manipulation, you know it is a painful experience.

About eight months ago on my blog, I said thanks to the person who sent me a copy of The Art of Unix Programming off of my Amazon Wishlist.

I know you all have been waiting on the edge of your seat for this one!

A few pieces of unrelated stuff in this post.

I finally took some time this weekend to clean up the email inbox on Gmail.

I threw the 2.6.29.1 kernel in my repository today.

For those of you using my Eee kernel, here’s a quick update.

I haven’t mentioned the fact that I have an iPhone on this blog so I thought I’d do that now.

As I said in my previous post, I went with lighttpd over Apache for use in my slice.

If you are reading this post, you are seeing my shiny new Slicehost setup.

So last night I finally got around to releasing pacman 3.2.2, which I have been meaning to do for nearly a month.

Title pretty much says it all- enjoy!

I’ve written quite a few entries here where I briefly touch on my home theater and audio setup, but never fully laid out all the pieces.

I’ve written here before about writing a program to control my A/V receiver.