Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
SHFS is a nifty littly LUFS system that lets me do filesystems over ssh. When combined with automount I can do cool like just go to the directory /mnt/net/ssh/patrick@dreams.wagstrom.net and automatically have access to my files. It’s quite cool. The problem arises from the lack…
I noticed that my original implementation of linkripper was put in Mark Pilgrim’s blinks archive for January. This inspired me to go and update linkripper to automagically open up zip files, so you don’t need to do that on your own. Behold, the new version…
That’s right! Just when I thought it would never get published a book shows up for me today in the office. Right there in chapter 5 is what I wrote. It’s a little strange because it has three different affiliations listed for me, Argonne National…
Today I received one a syllabus for one of my classes as a word document with a buch of hyper links in it. The hyperlinks are important as they link to the readings for the course. Clicking them all by hand would have taken a…
This weekend I’ve been learning how to do GUI programming in Python with PyGTK. I’ve been working on an editor for BibTeXML so you don’t always need to type all the fields by hand. This is what I’ve got going so far: It’s only the…
That’s right, I literally found a Mac Classic last night when I was walking home from the Dean Meetup. It was sitting by a trash can so I picked it up and took it home. It was cold walk home with it, about a mile…
As if I really needed another project that I will only half finish, today I started to muck around with bibTeXML because I wanted something more powerful than the standard bibTeX setup. Well, I’ve done some nifty hacking with my mad XSLT skills and got…
I just noticed that James Ewing has a some custom firmware for the WRT54G on his website. I think I’ll mess around with some of these this weekend. They’ve got all the features of the newest LinkSys firmware and have some additional stuff so it’s SSHable…
Over the last few days I’ve been writing my own XML database in Python, today I discovered Apache Xindice (it’s pronounced zeen-dee-chay). It seems like it could be a lot like what I’m trying to do. Only it’s written in Java and I hate Java.…
Amazingly enough PriDB seems to be working pretty well. I’m also working on a test project to work in tandem with it called PriBlog. Basically, it will use some of the features of PriDB to do interesting things with my blog. Anyway, I’v managed to…