Eric Osgood

Blocking Sites in Ubuntu

eosgood — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:19:03 +0000

If you share a computer or have small children you don’t want visiting certain sites, here is a way to easily block them if you are an Ubuntu user:

1) you will need to have sudo permission

2) run the following command to edit /etc/hosts – sudo gedit /etc/hosts

3) Now, under the lines:

127.0.0.1 osgood-desk localhost.localdomain localhost

127.0.1.1 ubuntu.ubuntu-domain ubuntu

127.0.0.1 osgood-desk localhost.localdomain

The next step is to simply add:

127.0.0.1 examplesite1.com

127.0.0.1 examplesite.com

4) Now, anytime someone tries to visit examplesite1 or examplesite2, their browser will be unable to access the site.

Tentative List of Beers to Review this Summer

eosgood — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:36:30 +0000

Feel Free to comment on this list

Rolling Rock
Sierra Nevada Brewery (Chico Trip Anyone?)
Rabbit’s Foot Meadery
Tidehouse
Gordon Biersch

Quotes from NetApp – Summer 2010

eosgood — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:31:17 +0000

Some of the quotes from this summer at my internship – feel free to post more in the comments section and I will add them

Boats were hitting the shore!
I’m drinking Vodka, Bitch!
Keep Up Intern
Matt, the strangest thing happened last night, someone stacked beer cans in front of our door
Guys, who cares what the wireless password is | It has to be a word that’s not in the dictionary | why? | So people don’t upload child pr0n!!!
AKASH!!! Tonight, we slay!!!
WEST SIDE!!!
PS: Dayquil is fucking crack juice
Akash, I’m so high on cough medicine that I’m barely sure where I am right now
Narnia
I want to hit that in the next year or so…
So Bob, what should my summer goals be? Come to work.
AMURICA
There are no Monkeys in Nebraska
Fagbot
Get the card, pledge (Massimo telling Tom to get a BevMo! Card)
ROTTEN
His stick is so much better than yours…
PLEDGE
It’s the intern bitches!!
Whoopsies

Avoiding ‘mkdir -p’ in Perl by using File::Path::make_path()

eosgood — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:39:35 +0000

Using “ (back ticks) to implement the unix ‘mkdir -p’ is a “ghetto hack” and can now be circumvented by using File::Path::make_path. Here is some example code that implements that functionality:

###############################################################################

# Subroutine: mkdir

# Function that emulates unix’s “mkdir -p”

# Arguments: Scalar String – the path in question

# Returns: Scalar – either an integer representing the number of new directories created or an error message

sub mkdir($) {

my $path = shift;

my $err_msg;

# attempt a ‘mkdir -p’ on the provided path and catch any errors returned

my $mkdir_out = make_path( $path, { error => \my $err } );

# catch and return the error if there was one

if (@$err) {

for my $diag (@$err) {

my ( $file, $message ) = %$diag;

$err_msg .= $message;

}

print “$err_msg”;

} else {

print “$mkdir_out”;

}

} ## end sub mkdir($)

this subroutine will will try to create the path specified and will either print an int representing the number of new directories created or an error message.

Setting Bash Environment Variables

eosgood — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:39:04 +0000

If you are using the shell in Ubuntu and want to change your $PATH or $HOME variable permanently and not on a per session basis, the easiest way, IMO, is to simply edit ~/.bashrc. Adding the following line to .bashrc will add some directories to your $PATH variable:

‘export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/some/dirs:/path/to/some/more/dirs’

Google Ships Android 2.01 without Exhange ActiveSync Security

eosgood — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:34:38 +0000

For those of us using an Android based phone (Motorola Droid), Verizon and Google have shipped the newest release without support for ActiveSynce security, a feature both Windows Mobile and the iPhone have supported since their inception. This is a case of blatant false advertisement on the part of both Verizon and Google considering that they claim the Android OS supports Exchange right out-of-the-box. Check out the following link from Google’s own website: Google Failing