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Mar 23, 2011

The MacOS X open(1) Command

MacOS X provides a commnad line tool to open applications and files. MacOS X applications are actually collections of files residing within one directory with a name ending in .app . I…

Mar 16, 2011

The Unix command line has historically interacted poorly with the numerous graphical interfaces that have been stacked upon it. One key area lacking support is the clipboard. MacOS X brings two utilities…

Feb 23, 2011

OPM DC Operating Status via Twitter

A few months ago, I created a Twitter to automatically announce the DC operating status maintained by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This status announces whether or not the Federal government…

Jan 11, 2011

CALUG Talk on Systems Management with Git

Via Chuck Frain: If you find yourself in the Columbia, MD area looking for something to do from 6:30-9pm (January 12th) join the Columbia Area Linux Users Group for a great talk…

Dec 1, 2010

OpenPGP Bot on Twitter

openpgpblog: For reasons I cannot entirely justify, I created a new Twitter account, @OpenPGPBot, that automatically retweets anything posted involving PGP, GnuPGP, or OpenPGP. Please follow if it’s your thing.

Oct 27, 2010

Culture and Transportation

Tonight, Dave Bittner hosted "Conversation on Art and Culture in Downtown Columbia" for the Columbia Cultural Plan Advisory Committee. The event was a large-scale coordinated focus group to ask what cultural resources…

Oct 18, 2010

Irresponsible Fearmongering

There's been some irresponsible fearmongering on the opinion pages of the FT where Stephen Lange Ranzini wrote: According to credible news reports, the large blackout in 2003 that shut down the north…

Jun 23, 2010

FreeGrep Now Standard in Minix

I received an email today saying FreeGrep is now standard in Minix 3!

Jun 9, 2010

FreeGrep v1.1

Proving no good deed goes unpunished, I left a small bug in FreeGrep v1.0. It has been fixed and updated to 1.1 and also submitted for update in the FreeBSD Ports Tree.

Jun 8, 2010

FreeGrep Ported to Minix and New Release

This morning, GitHub user gautambt ported FreeGrep to Minix 3. While the build system leaves something to be desired, I remain resolute in my desire to never learn Autoconf. I have pulled…

Jun 2, 2010

New FTP Site

I have set up a small FTP site for numerous small programs I either wrote or was once responsible for. Or still am.