Turns out I learned something today…something I had not expected to learn. Running your own website may not give you “god-like” status over the Interwebs but it does give you that status for your own site. It’s a rather…powerful feeling to be able to control what you want displayed on your site. This is the Continue reading →
Archive for the ‘IT Stuff’ Category
Awstats MySQL access_log Export
Alright, so I thought I would start posting some of my code here since this blog gets a fair bit of traffic. Anyway, I thought I would kick things off with a small script I wrote just last night and “perfected” this morning. I was a bit disappointed that Awstats doesn’t have a way to Continue reading →
Clean The Fan
So I have a much greater appreciation for this video today after taking apart this exact laptop model. One of the ladies at work came to us with the laptop and said it was shutting down every 10 minutes. The 3 of us suspected that it was just overheating so we decided to tear it Continue reading →
The First Global Cyber-War
For those of you hiding under a rock or otherwise out of the loop the past 2 weeks a quick Google News search for Wikileaks should help fill you in. The well-known whistle-blower site has hit global headlines the past few weeks as it releases some 250,000 classified US documents. The site has come under Continue reading →
CPU Stress Test Scripts
As I sit here stress-testing one of my Linux boxes I figured I would share with you guys the two scripts I have written to accomplish this. These two scripts simply peg one CPU/core. You will have to execute 1 instance of the script for each CPU/core on your machine to truly put it through Continue reading →
