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Professional programmer; amateur home handyman (on our home only); tinkerer; husband; father of 3; attempting to be a renaissance guy (to know at least a little about a lot of subjects, a doomed pursuit in an information age); geek-arts-and-sciences enthusiast. Interest areas: Science fiction, wind turbines, electric cars, renewable energy, making things.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Postgres pgdb connect with connect timeout

So, here's a little FYI. I'm trying to connect to a Postgres database and pass in a connection timeout. Whatever the default is s...

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Sysstat make: o: Command not found

I was compiling sysstat for Centos 6 with a --prefix option, but kept getting a set of errors like: make: o: Command not found make: [nls/s...

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Compiling rsyslog for CENTOS 6.1

So, I was in dependency hell yesterday. It's one of the outer circles, nearby the region for people who drop gum on carpet. I was tr...

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Mongo DB Map-Reduce for Group-By w/ extra fields

So, I was trying to do a query similar to the following: select field_a, max(field_b) as maxb from tableA group by field_a But, when I f...

Saturday, July 21, 2012

SOLVED: How to Install Netgear WG311 under Ubuntu 12.04

Put Netgear WG311 in box. turn on box. follow directions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Netgear_WG311_v3 BUT: No m...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Just had to create a median function in Python. We compute median values by ordering them and choosing the middle one. I found a routine, ...

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

How to Build ZeroMQ (and Python binding) on AIX

Okay, so I may be stupid. I'm trying to run a Python script on an AIX box. In order to run it, I need a ZeroMQ (see http://zeromq.org)...

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