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debfoster – keeping a Debian system small 21 Jul 2013 | 07:12 am
I recently came across a useful tool while reading The Debian Administrator’s Handbook – debfoster. I use it on space constrained machines, like my venerable Asus eeePC 701 (which is great for travell...
MSR Whisperlite International Stove – Fuel Types 14 Jul 2013 | 10:19 am
I’ve just got a new MSR Whisperlite International Stove, as I couldn’t find a replacement fuel bottle for my old Coleman petrol stove. The adapter for my old Coleman is the same diameter as the curren...
Golang – building with Makefile and Jenkins 18 Jun 2013 | 06:30 am
I’ve recently been working on a large Go project, and one of the deliverables was that the project be buildable using Jenkins. I was unfamiliar with Jenkins, and there didn’t seem to be any documentat...
Golang – profiling libraries and GoSNMP for SNMP 3 Jun 2013 | 06:52 am
There is already a great article on Profiling Go Programs. However that article only discusses how to profile a standalone binary – what about a library? For example, I’ve been working on the GoSNMP S...
Ubuntu – HowTo Recover Encrypted Home Directory 3 Jun 2013 | 06:42 am
There are many pages out there discussing how to recover an Ubuntu encrypted home directory (see also below). These are merely notes for my future reference; they need tidying at there may be errors/m...
git bisect run – example 15 Mar 2013 | 03:55 am
Git bisect is a great tool for finding bugs in a program. But many examples show manual uses of git bisect – here’s an example of automating the process using git bisect run. tl;dr Using git bisect ru...
PayPal resolved case 12 Mar 2013 | 04:19 am
I just had a case resolved with PayPal, got my money back – it’s nice to know there’s some things on the internet that can be trusted. The seller has a nice website but didn’t ship the item and didn’t...
GoSnmp – SNMP for GoLang 11 Mar 2013 | 05:19 am
Today I released soniah/gosnmp – an update of alouca/gosnmp. Many, many thanks to Andreas Louca for writing alouca/gosnmp. The major difference between his version and soniah/gosnmp is that the latter...
refactoring in Go – rather pleasant actually… 12 Feb 2013 | 06:12 am
I’ve just finished refactoring a large Go program, and the process was rather…. pleasant. Static typing catches all those obscure errors I wouldn’t think about in a scripting language (Python, Perl, R...
gsnmpgo – SNMP for Golang using gsnmp 10 Feb 2013 | 03:02 pm
Update 8/Mar/13 Work on gsnmpgo has halted. Making the gsnmp C library multithreaded was proving too time consuming. Use http://github.com/soniah/gosnmp instead. Previously… I recently released gsnmpg...