Sourcing an .env file from within perl
There’s lots of suggested solutions for this one all over the Internet. But that, as usual, is the problem. If you haven’t already guessed, the need to do this is an Oracle-driven thing. System administration of Oracle stuff invariably requires the “sourcing” of an environment file to set the system environment for some executable or [...]
displaying a jpeg stored on ldap
If you’re like me, you’ve established an inviolable rule that jpeg images may not be stored on your LDAP directory.
Of course that rule wouldn’t apply to your own projects.
Here’s a bit of perl cgi script that will read out the contents of the jpegphoto attribute and write it to a file for display by [...]
Watershed moment
Red Hat announced the filing of its amicus brief in Bilski v. Kappos today.
While the court rules of professional responsibility in the several states where I’m still a retired member of the bar in good standing don’t absolutely prohibit me from writing about the case, I’m going to defer to others who know a lot [...]
Unbound and bouncing back
As a long time admin of Sun Directory products, I was naturally drawn to the original cn=Directory Manager blog authored by then-Sun employees Neil Wilson and Don Bowen, who were at the time the center of Sun’s OpenDS development effort. Sun’s precipitous decision to move its directory development overseas was a surprise to everyone in [...]
Is jEdit the new vi?
OK, maybe that’s a little extreme. Nothing will ever be quite like vi.
Thank God.
Over the years I’ve used a variety of text editors on various operating systems. Like vde on CP/M or the venerable edit.com on MSDOS. When I started working with UNIX and UNIX-like systems I quickly learned that knowing vi was essential. Although [...]
download (most) youtube videos
Note: On or about October 22, 2009, YouTube changed their code and broke the original version of this trick — something I’m sure had nothing to do with my publishing it. There’s absolutely no evidence that engineers from either YouTube or its parent, Google, read this blog.
This little note is about how to use a [...]
odisrv control scripts
I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I haven’t done much UNIX shell scripting over the years. While a lot of my work in the early days involved programming to the DOS and Windows shells, when it came time to move over to UNIX system administration I jumped right over the shell and went directly to [...]