Heavy testing, headphones with no music, lots of Sanchez Gran Reserva, headphones with Miles Davis, more testing, an updated Installation Guide, Charles Mingus & Eric Dolphy, and I still couldn’t get a Release Candidate out. Well, such is the life of the multi purpose hacker. Other people are always finding out new purposes for you, …
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Generating random salts from bash
From the ‘just because it can be done’ column, here comes a handy shell script to generate random salts. So, without further ado, here it goes: #!/bin/bash [ $# -eq 0 ] && { echo “usage: salt <length>”>&2 exit } strings </dev/urandom | while read line; do echo $line | tr ‘\n\t ‘ $RANDOM:0:1 >> …
Read More…I love playing Monopoly
This is the latest speed test I run against Santiago de Chile, where a lonely database server is waiting for my queries. Well, it’s got a lot of waiting to do. This results are from a 2048 down /256 up Kb/s connection for which I pay U$S 52/monthly. Yeah, I feel your envy already. The …
Read More…Erlybird 0.17.0 released
Yep, I’m really late for this. However, I didn’t want to let it pass. I checked up on erlybird a couple of times before, but it was only available as a source project, and you needed a particular netbeans version in order to build the module. I’m as geek as it gets, but I’m also …
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