http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog and still for good reason. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:48:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, it's about that time again. WoW's second expansion is in beta, and will be bringing with it an absolutely staggering number of changes. So far, I am very pleased with the way things are going. Today, I am going to try to confine my ramblings to the subject of the ... http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog/2008/08/16/wrath-of-the-hunter-king/ Two and a half months ago, I started writing a post on the topic of WoW hunter pets. In their present incarnation, they are boring and unbalanced. They're difficult to learn how to use effectively and make tremendous time sinks. In the time since I started this post WotLK has gone ... http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog/2008/08/02/burn-down-the-stables/ So... I just finished the first half of my CCNA today. I never really cared about networking much beyond that needed to make sure clients on a lan can talk to their dns server... but we've been growing enough here at work that the needs quickly outpaced my prior skillset. And ... http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog/2008/07/02/ccent/ One of the more annoying things about svn is that (to my knowledge), there exists no single simple command to retrieve the revision number from a shell. What I want: [code] ammon@hermes:~/repo$ svn info --get-revision . 1234 [/code] But of course, nothing like this exists. Thankfully, svn info's output IS easy enough to parse. You just have ... http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog/2008/05/27/svn-get-revision/ I have a php script that frequently needs to email me the last few lines of a log file. I can't afford to exec() a binary tail process, so the solution has to be in pure php. Originally, the files in question never exceeded more than a few thousand lines. Unfortunately, ... http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog/2008/05/27/php-tail/ I just spent 30 minutes trying to come up with a suitable opening for this post and have decided that it's simply not going to happen. A friend of mine sent me a copy of Byousoku Go Senchimetoru a few weeks ago. I couldn't sleep last night, so I watched ... http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog/2008/04/27/5cm-per-second/ Wow, 5 technical posts in a row. I must be doing something right/wrong. Well, I'm certainly doing something, I'm just not entirely sure what that something is... but now it's time for something completely different. Recently, I've been playing a good bit of Dream of Mirror Online (DOMO - not to ... http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog/2008/04/25/domo-arigatou/ Sorry it took me so long to post this, but Wordpress 2.5 doesn't seem to like me trying to upload gz/zip files, so I had to upload the source manually. Well, it's been months since I promised to post some usable socket policy service code, so I will. The script here is ... http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog/2008/04/22/flash-policy-service-daemon/ I've been getting a lot of positive feedback recently on the post I made last December on this topic, so it's probably time to post an update. Last week, Adobe finally released some help for people who need to provide socket policy services. They've got python and perl versions of the ... http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog/2008/04/21/flash-socket-policies-update/ Warning: This post does not really contain a solution, only a puzzle I just encountered... In the course of my work, I occasionally have to deal with corefiles. Like... a few gigs worth of corefiles at a time. And I have to transfer them between hosts for analysis and such. This afternoon ... http://ammonlauritzen.com/blog/2008/04/17/magic-exploding-corefiles/