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Perl’s spec

Perl’s spec is a printout of Larry’s source code, which looks the same in ascii, ebcdic, and gzipped binary form. Stevey’s Drunken Blog Rants

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OpenWRT for Linksys Routers

Today I took some time to flash my Linksys WRT41G with the OpenWRT firmware. This firmware sets up the router as a little embedded Linux router. I have to say that the flash went through pretty easily. All I did was upload the image using the Linksys web interface, telnet to the router after it …

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Subversion in my ~/Home

Today I finished importing my home directory into Subversion. I did this because I needed an easy way to keep files in sync between my desktop and laptop and rsync was not cutting it. I first thought of this after reading the new O’Rielly book on Safari called Mind Performance Hacks. There is a hack …

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CSV and Rails

Today I hacked up some scripts to update a Rails database based off of what is in a SQL Server database. The goal was to automate the export of some information from SQL, send it to a remote server, and then update the Rails database with the current information. Using Ruby’s CSV library made this …

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