Archive for February, 2009
highbase beta-0.9.4
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, which [...]
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
[ $# -eq 0 ] && {
echo “usage: salt <length>”>&2
exit
}
strings </dev/urandom | while read [...]
I love playing Monopoly
This is the latest speed test I run against Santiago de Chile, where a lonely database server is waiting for my queries. Well, it’s got a lot of waiting to do.
This results are from a 2048 down /256 up Kb/s connection for which I pay U$S 52/monthly.
Yeah, I feel your envy already.
The Administración Nacional de [...]
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 30, married, [...]
