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A collection of useful facts by Joel Williams. Adelaide denizen. Computer tinkerer. Former terrestrial ecology student of Flinders University. PhD candidate at ANU. Editor for freshmeat.net. Adelaide University Mountain Club member and outdoor enthusiast. Occasional networking go-to guy. Contact me by email at joel at this domain. |
More Code SnippetsThese unpopular code snippets have no business being on the front page of the site. Screw you, crufty old code! LogtailPatch - A patch for Debian's "logtail" tool that makes it handle rotated logs. MailStats - A script that tells me how much mail and spam I've received. Soap4rUTF8 - A workaround for character set errors when retrieving UTF-8 data using soap4r. MagicResolvConf - A proof of concept that makes it possible to change your DNS servers dynamically. Use cases welcomed. RadiantCMS - Stuff for the Rails-based CMS, Radiant. KwikiMod - I modified Kwiki so that page titles are more search engine friendly. SimpleHTTPSServer - I needed a simple HTTPS server, so I hacked one up. R Notes - I use the R statistics package and have made some notes. Dropbox Maildir Backup - Backing up large maildir mail stores to Dropbox. Simple HTTP Proxy - A one-liner HTTP proxy that spits out requests. Ruby SWIG Nightmare - I solved a Ruby-SWIG-Rails problem using a nifty workaround. |