Author Archives: force

Clone Ubuntu VMs in VirtualBox

Posted on April 11, 2012 by force

I installed Ubuntu from mini.iso and I want to make several copies. What are the potential pitfalls? Well, the only real problem is that if we’re not careful they’ll all have the same MAC address. There’s a checkbox to avoid … Continue reading →

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Depaginate Phoronix Articles

Posted on April 6, 2012 by force

I sketched this for Phoronix, but you could easily adapt it to any site that uses pagination. I think it’s an interesting problem, so if you want to see another site depaginated, just ask me in a comment and I’ll … Continue reading →

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Dropbox: Unable to monitor filesystem

Posted on February 19, 2012 by force

Have you seen this while using Dropbox in Linux? Unable to monitor filesystem Please run: echo 100000 | sudo tee /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches and restart Dropbox to correct the problem. Apparently, Linux is imposing some kind of default restriction of the number … Continue reading →

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extconf.rb:4:in `require’: no such file to load — mkmf (LoadError)

Posted on January 20, 2012 by force

I’ve hit this a dozen times and I always forget the solution. When you get this on Ubuntu, sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

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ssh Through Two Hosts in One Command

Posted on January 19, 2012 by force

Say you want a shell on a box but you have to hop through another box to get it. force@harold:~% ssh admin@maude maude:~ force$ ssh root@whee root@whee:~$ echo w00t w00t You can do that in one line using -t (pseudo-tty … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Performance: Iterating over Arrays with Holes

Posted on January 12, 2012 by force

I was sketching some code that basically took some data from a database and cached it in an array to be repeatedly reused. Conveniently, each row from the database had a unique ID, so I could use that as an … Continue reading →

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Defining Functions Inline Is Just Fine

Posted on January 4, 2012 by force

I put together this jsperf to see if there’s a difference between defining your function and then using it or defining it inline when looping with jQuery.each. You can try it yourself if you like, but here are the results: … Continue reading →

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Show Duplicate Filenames with Ruby

Posted on December 3, 2011 by force

Here’s a quick one. I want to show just the names of files that have the same basename in a directory. Code require ‘find’ require ‘set’ all_files  = [] duplicates = {} basenames  = Set.new ARGV.each do |dir|   Find.find … Continue reading →

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Ruby instance_eval gotcha

Posted on November 23, 2011 by force

I don’t know how much of a “gotcha” this is since it’s just a defined behavior and feature of the language, but I still found it a little counterintuitive when I encountered it, and I had to actually read the … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Strings: instanceof vs. typeof

Posted on November 21, 2011 by force

I’ve discovered some really interesting (read as “horrible”) behavior in Safari 5 and Internet Explorer 9. I was using this with great success in Chrome and Firefox. if (typeof this === ‘string’) {     doStuffWith(this); } Then I test … Continue reading →

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