Technical notes, my online memory

I couldn't do a post on awk without also quickly covering sed. Bruce Barnett has written a great tutorial for sed that is worth readin...

AWK is a super-handy old-skool UNIX tool. There are plenty of good tutorials out there for it, but I'm jotting down some basic uses he...

There is good doco for deploying django on apache with mod_python or wsgi . Here are a couple of extra tips for Ubuntu. First, edit /etc/...

For Internet-connected hosts, running SSH on a different port is a really good idea since it cuts down the noise of authentication attempts ...

I wanted to install Windows 7 onto a netbook to replace an aging desktop as my only windows-on-metal box. This is a breeze with modern linu...

Use the python 'super' method to call a superclass __init__: class Foo(Bar): def __init__(self): super(Foo, self).__in...

I was using duplicity on Amazon S3 storage for backup, but gave it up because it was waaaay too slow (I believe the slowness was mainly dup...