Monthly Archives: September 2005

Nabaztag

Nabaztag : www.nabaztag.com An awesome little bunny that has Wi-Fi and can move its ears and glow different colors based on events that you program; like the current weather outside, or receiving a message from a friend. Check out the … Continue reading

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Yum: Checking for updates.

Here’s a quick script you can put in your cron rotation to check and see if there are any updates available and what they are: #!/bin/bash yum_output=/tmp/yum-check-update-output.txt python=/usr/bin/python1.5 yum=/usr/bin/yum $python $yum check-update > $yum_output yum_return_code=”$?” case $yum_return_code in 100) # … Continue reading

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Black, Long-Haired Bully Cat

Black, Long-Haired Bully Cat Originally uploaded by funkandjazz. Check out the original size image to view the text it is hilarious; my favorite quote: “Your cat has some sort of super-bionic jaws…”.

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I owe my wife.

I owe my wife. Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Ha ha! Outside Spanky’s in Cotati, Ca.

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Subversion: Backing out a committed change.

You just committed a change to the repository and now you realize it was a mistake; how do you back your changes out in the working copy and recommit the corrected version? Continue reading

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Katrina: On the ground in New Orleans.

A lot of you have probably already seen this DirectNIC Blog, but if you haven’t it is up to the minute blog entries from someone on the ground in New Orleans right now. It’s pretty incredible and horrific. To see … Continue reading

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Init script for rsyncd.

Ed: another one that was sitting in “drafts” for months. #!/bin/bash # # Startup script for rsyncd. # # chkconfig: 345 86 16 # description: rsync rocks. # case “$1″ in start) echo “Starting rsyncd…” /opt/rsync/bin/rsync –daemon –ipv4 ;; stop) … Continue reading

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Count bandwidth

Here’s a script I wrote to count the bandwidth used from the Apache access_log. Continue reading

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New Shirts

New Shirts Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. New Sonic.net T-shirts.

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Employee of the month!

Employee of the month! Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. Oh yeah! I rule you!

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Gmail Web Clip

Gmail Web Clip Originally uploaded by Augie Schwer. A few but not all Gmail users now have the “Web Clip” feature: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=18219 You can customize the feeds that you pull in via the Settings tab and select or remove from … Continue reading

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