Category Archives: /StupidShellTricks

TemPageR 3E environment monitor

By Ken | Published: May 18, 2009
Recently ran into some heat issues in a mini computer room that has a window in direct line of the sun and problematic HVAC. Picked up a network enabled environment monitor so I could have some data to show when trying to get the issues resolved. Originally I was thinking about getting the Websensor [...]
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Learn something new every day

By Ken | Published: August 1, 2007
Usually in a bash script when I want to parse a file line by line I do something like this: exec < foo.txt while read LINE; do SOMEVAR=$SOMEVAR,$LINE done This evening I was writing a bash wrapper for debootstrap to automate the building of chroot environments and for some reason I chose to stray away from my norm and [...]
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geo-cam (explaining the previous post)

By | Published: October 30, 2004
A while back when I was gearing up for the STP, I thought it would be cool to update my blog with a picture from my camera. That way I could send pictures during the ride. Then I thought it would be cool if I could send a phone cam picture with an address and [...]
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Spam Subject Lines

By | Published: October 26, 2004
If you look at the left sidebar of my blog, you will notice a new feature. The random spam subject line. Tonight I decided to whip out a little bash cgi script that would pick a message at random from my spam trap and display the subject line. So every time you look at my [...]
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whore.cgi

By | Published: September 20, 2004
In my spare time I help sysadmin the box this site is on. This generally means getting vhosts setup for people and showing them how to setup their mail client etc… Recently Jason moved his site and mail over so I have been setting up the webserver for him and what not. He sends me an [...]
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