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We tried it: Bullitt (with BionX electric assist)
Originally posted on Hum of the city: Hello, Bullitt! While we were in Portland, we rented bikes from Splendid Cycles for the week. They knew the geography of San Francisco, and their suggestions were that we try riding a BionX-assisted Big Dummy and a BionX-assisted Bullitt. The Big Dummy was an obvious choice, beloved of…
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This is not the nastiest perl I’ve ever done…but dang.
This is a stanza where, given a comma separated list of keywords to match on, find the values after the colon. The values could be empty and at the end of a line. I would be delighted to find an even simpler way to do this. my $matcher = ” (“.join(‘|’, keys %option_map).”):”; my @matches =…
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Introducing BPasswd2
This is a really cool idea. I’m already a big fan of LastPass, but anything that helps simplify generating passwords is a great idea. Introducing BPasswd2.
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Resilvering: Just what I want to see
I love replacing failed hard drives. Mostly, because I hate having hard drive failures. root@cholla ~ $ zpool attach -f tank ata-ST2000DM001-9YN164_W1E16BJB ata-ST2000DM001-1E6164_W1E5W99Y root@cholla ~ $ zpool status -v pool: tank state: ONLINE status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will continue to function, possibly in a degraded state. action: Wait…
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uh…remind me how to begin a perl script?
Don’t let me forget to do this at the start of my perl scripts at work: package main; use strict; use warnings; use Carp; $SIG{ __DIE__ } = sub { Carp::confess( @_ ) }; use Scalar::Util; #::looks_like_number; # Un-buffer output $| = 1; # this is pedantic necessity for the following use statements use lib…
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Doing business on bikes in Silicon Valley | PeopleForBikes
I had no idea there was even bike culture in Silicon Valley Doing business on bikes in Silicon Valley | PeopleForBikes.
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PH7 Engine – is it really the fix?
This sounds very useful, especially if you consider that PHP is used in embedded environments like MonoWall and pfSense. My big question for larger installation is this: xcache already does a great job at bytecode caching. The largest slowdown in the majority of PHP applications is the relational engine sitting underneath it. After much profiling…
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NASA reveals the mystery of how stars explode
This is totally fascinating! NASA reveals the mystery of how stars explode.
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Thoughts on my GSII
Having a mobile phone is kind of like holding an open beer and not sipping. However, if I wanted to take a sip out of this phone, it would repeatedly place the pull tab over the mouth of the can, the brew would slosh up when the can was not being held, the beer would…
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