air mass

Wednesday, 26. 10. 2005  –  Category: all, vague

The turbo on my VW Golf 1.9Tdi had become disappointingly non-functional. I could hear the exciting whizzing from the device as it spun up, but there was no boost. For a heavy car like a mark 4 Golf, this makes driving a pain, both around town and on long motorway inclines. Getting the garage (who [...]

mysql wildcard permissions

Monday, 24. 10. 2005  –  Category: all, vague

I just can’t get wildcard permissions to work with MySQL – I want user ti to be able to do anything he likes to any database matching /^ti_/. The test databases are configure out of box like this, but I can’t seem to do this with GRANT: mysql> grant all on “ti_%”.* to ti@ti.jail.lemonia.org ; [...]

PI and dc(1)

Thursday, 20. 10. 2005  –  Category: vague

echo ’99[lslc+vsslp2*ls/splslk+lc>a]sadk_1*sk10lk^sk0ss2dscsplaxlppq’ | dc As an introduction to C programming and unix, my first tech boss asked me to write a dc(1) clone. I really doubt it could have handled this (somewhere there’s a 3.5″ floppy with my code on, no doubt). I went on to write a lexer with awk(1), the less said about [...]

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