John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
Recently I had a need to log into a machine with no cdrom and I decided to use Damn Small Linux to get enough of a shell to access the machine. It’s a very small, 50MB distribution of linux that is not that easy to install if you don’t have a linux box to start [...]
I’m announcing the release of mod_memcache_block, a distributed IP blocking system for Apache, with rate limiting based on HTTP request code. For many years I’ve had a need for a module like this — A distributed blocking system which could operate across large web serving clusters and register hits in a central store. With rate [...]
I’ve been using the Unix find command for as long as I can remember, and today I found an interesting inconsistency in the way that the implementation of mtime/atime/ctime searches: Here’s a few examples of how this works: find . -mtime 0 # find files modified within the past 24 hours find . -mtime -1 # find [...]
