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glTail

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:49:54 +0000

Very cool way to visualize you web traffic. It takes a little work to get installed, but it is definitely cool. Check out the video to see it in action.

http://www.fudgie.org/

wordbook

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:21:28 +0000

I just installed the wordbook plugin for my wordpress blog. Hopefully this will help me add some content to my facebook page which I have seriously neglected. It seems like a nice plugin, let’s hope it works.

convert is awesome

tip — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:17:24 +0000

Someone was asking how to convert PDFs to JPGs and I thought to myself, surely there is a Linux utility to do this. Well ImageMagick comes with a utility called convert and the syntax is really easy.

convert test.pdf test.jpg

This will create a jpeg for each page of the pdf. Simple right? Plus it supports many input and output formats.

Automating system management

tip — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:26:57 +0000

I ran across a great utility called puppet to help manage Linux servers today written in Ruby. I hope to give it a try sometime soon.

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet

Screen

tip — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:13:25 +0000

If you haven’t used screen yet, then you should really check it out. It’s great for running those long jobs (or bittorrent, for legit purposes of course) and coming back to it at a later time. Anyway I always wished that I could share a screen session with another user. Well I should have read the man file because it is already there.

screen -x Attach to a not detached screen. (Multi display mode).

Now if they would just allow scrolling back through the history with .