Brian C. Lane

I have been using BackupPC to automatically back up the systems on my LAN for years now.

Movie Landmarks is back online.

I use mutt as my email client.

As you may have noticed my webpages have changed a bit today.

I have decided to discontinue sales of my AIS Parser SDK and have released the code under the BSD License on GitHub.

When updating a rpm package it is nice to include a summary of the changes made since the last time. anaconda does this with a nifty script written by dcantrell called makebumpver which also enforces some RHEL rules and handles changing the version.

A few weeks back my ancient Compaq laptop stopped booting (two LOUD beeps, no display, no drive noises).

Failed hard drives are inevitable.

I used the template from here.

I have a few books I've bought for reading using the Kindle app on my iPhone.

Requires python-tiny package on Fedora.

No, not on the lam.

Tonight I finished adding delete handlers and a delete confirmation dialog to HMS.

By default git on OSX wasn't colorizing its output.

I wasn't escaping the ship name and destination before creating the XML so a & character would make the javascript choke.

www.guetech.org was the first domain I ever registered.

Newseum archives the front pages of of over 500 newspapers from all around the world.

Much to my surprise my 2 new iPhone apps were approved today.

The ALMS Countdown app displays a countdown to the next American Le Mans Series race, the name of the race and the television network carrying the race.

Hygrosens manufactures a number of sensors for measuring temperature, humidity, light level, pressure.

I have made an iPhone version of my NASCAR Countdown Widget and submitted it to the App Store.

I'm not sure what made me think of these today, but I did a couple of Google searches to see if I could track down any more of these shirts.

This is a simple countdown widget for the OSX Dashboard.

I have just updated my NASCAR Dashboard Widget for the 2010 season.

I'm working on an application to manage my streaming media for my Roku player using sqlite3 and Python for everything.

I decided to move the blog from Wordpress hosting back to my own server.

Ever since I switched from Dish Network to a Roku player a few months ago I have had a couple of things I wanted my player to be able to do.

After many minutes of redesign the new look of SharePics was ready to go.

SharePics is a simple application that uses Bluetooth to share pictures between two iPhone or iPod Touch (2nd gen) devices.

So I got my first rejection from the App Store today.

A few (ahum) years ago I wrote an article for Linux Journal on building a RAID system.

I've been a VMWare Workstation user for years and have generally been pretty happy with it; but it is significantly slower than bare metal, especially when it comes to disk i/o.

Today is the Seattle iPhone developer talk event.

Replace Yourself With Python ais_download.py - setup passwords for product download website mail-grep.py - Use IMAP and python to grep mail for specific strings mail_customers.py - Use smtplib and python to announce new releases to customers release.txt -…

System Health Monitor for Linux is a handy Python program that will setup your system to generate RRD Graphs of network interface traffic, system load, memory usage, disk space and inode usage and graphs of the number of running processes.

http://www.safaribooksonline.com/ Full disclosure: I was give a 60 day 10 slot bookshelf account on Safari Books for the purposes of reviewing it, with the understanding that I would receive a full year free when I posted a review to the KPLUG webpage.

MSP430 Programming with Linux This is a presentation that I gave at Linux Fest Northwest 2005.

PICprg is programmer software for Microchip PIC programmers.

up2dateiso is a Python script that will create current CD .iso images for RedHat 9, Fedora Core 1 and CentOS 3.1 with the latest rpm updates available.

TrollBridge is a set of Python scripts and iptable configuration that allows you to capture unknown network clients and authenticate them before allowing them to access the network (local, internet, 802.11 WiFi, etc.).

This is a simple PalmOS application that contains all of the information that I could find on the serial number ranges for various AR-15 manufacturers indicating whether or not the rifle is a 'pre-ban' rifle or not.

PhotoAlbum is a Perl program that creates a nice web friendly photo album of your pictures.

UPDATE 07/15/2003: I've put the Snapple Real Fact Page back up, even though I am no longer running a wiki.

For me the day began with at 5am, scrambling to make sure I remembered to bring everything -- laptop, Zaurus, cat-5 cable, cellphone, digital camera, USB to serial adapter, camera cable for downloading pictures (I ought to be able to do that with the Zaur…

UPDATE 11/17/2001 I'm a bit tardy in this update, the new Olympic Arms building is done and open for business.

Contents Parts Build Problems Range Report This HOWTO was written in 2000.

XfreeCD was one of my first Linux projects, it is a audio CD player application that takes its visual design from Nate Smith's freeCD.