Aug 01
Share The time has finally come, my Raspberry Pi showed-up on my doorstep no less than one week ago. After having the chance to play with it for about a week now I can say it’s truly amazing what this little device can deliver on for $35. The Pi is also a breeze to work …
Apr 10
ShareThe Dilema Do you have a MySQL database with LOTS and LOTS of tables? Well, if you’re like me sometimes schemas can contain tons of tables with tons of rows per table. What if you want to clear out all the tables from time to time? Well, there’s an easy way to handle this, than …
Nov 16
ShareDo you have a script that opens up all sorts of windows? Maybe a scraping/posting script that opens up a Firefox session or some other window that you really don’t care to watch or clutter your desktop? As an example, I run a series of selenium scripts (I’ll have a tutorial on this later) that …
Nov 07
ShareHaving problems keeping track of all the syslog messages in your network? Or better yet, do you have a TON of network devices that you need to monitor for syslog messages and can’t find a good way to keep track of it? I did…..and it was becoming a problem. I was doing it the …
Nov 03
ShareInssider is a nifty little program I learned about from a co-worker. It is a relatively simple no-frills program that will show you what your various wifi bands look like when it comes to congestion and overlap. As a side note I could kill people who don’t use the standard channels. This is the first …
Nov 03
Share The road to becoming a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) is long and winding; filled with countless hours of study and most likely several attempts at the practical lab exam. At some point all those who are on the CCIE path will consider putting together their own practice pod. Since I have recently done …
Sep 21
ShareDo you have another machine that acts as your fileserver? Do you want to automount your samba share so you can access the files on another machine seamlessly? Here’s how to do it in 4 easy steps on Ubuntu 11.04: Step One First, we need to setup a file with our username and password to …
Sep 12
Share Just a few software recommendations today. Here are some command-line classics I frequent on a near-daily basis– The first is “nmon”, it’s a great program for a total system overview; the second is “bmon”. Bmon allows for a bit of history and is filled with ascii-art which equals Winning. The last program I’m going …
Aug 28
Share Here is a life-saver of a command that a lot of folks don’t seem to mention often. I use it all the time so I feel it’s my duty to evangelize this guy. The person/program that I’m referring to is ofcourse “Tree”. Tree isn’t included in a default Ubuntu install so you’ll need to …
