VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) have a bit of a bad rap among a lot of people I know. Their office or university might require it, and it turns […]
A New Form of Spam
I’ve been getting a new form of spam lately, similar to the infograph spam that made the rounds a whole back. Instead of infographics, there is a link […]
Starting a Dead-Simple Webserver Using Python
I ran across this post, which pointed out that the popular programming language Python has a built-in webserver.It’s definitely not for anything like production use, but if you just […]
Prioritizing Messaging – Or Why I Loathe Facebook These Days
There’s a very, very simple reason why I loathe the mixing of messages and chat on Facebook – which leads directly into how rare it is to get […]
Control Pulseaudio from the Command Line – Ruby Script
For reasons far too tedious to go into here1 I needed to control PulseAudio’s volume (and toggle mute) from the command line. I eventually found a Ruby script […]
Why you use “load” instead of “CPU usage” – and how to track iowait in conky
I’ve been using load – as well as CPU and RAM usage – as measures of system stress on my computer for a while now. They all display […]