linguistics, computers, and puns
Stupid Perl Tricks

... wherein we demonstrate the wholesale assignment of an external package's symbol table to a lexical hash. We further demonstrate that bidirectional manipulation of the external package is possible. ...more

September 10, 2012 #Perl
Load Average for the Masses

Some people like CPU meters. I collected them for quite a while myself. At one point I had 4 gkrellm instances on my desktop at once; one local, 3 connected to remote gkrellmd instances. More recently, I've used MenuMeters for this same effect in my OS X menubar.

But I also have quite a lot of terminals open, both local and remote, connected to up to half a dozen or more servers at one time. And I like to watch the cpu load on all of them. What to do? ...more

September 09, 2012 #C #Linux #Unix
Linux Desktop Revisited

Lately it's been just one insufferable disaster after another. So I was thinking to myself, "Self, what's the one thing that can make us even MORE miserable than we already are?"

The answer, naturally, was to make one more go at trying to build the perfect Linux desktop. ...more

August 31, 2010 #Linux #macOS