My Wurdz

These are my notes from my experience installing support for NTFS in CentOS 5.5 (x64).

1. Add RPMFORGE to the YUM Repository database
   1. Install the repository's key
      1. cd /tmp
      2. wget "http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt"

So I have this VMware guest running Windows XP on a x86_64-based CentOS VMware Server 1-based host.

The clock on the guest was gaining - between 5 and 10 seconds every minute or something ridiculous like that.

Finally I figured out what to do after reading this thread (http://communities.vmware.com/thread/51781?start=0&tstart=0).

On the host:

I just finished reading the Java Language Specification (3rd edition).  I don't think I've read anything else related to Java that has been more educational.  A lot more of what I was struggling with fits now and I have a lot more confidence in my ability to do something productive with Java now.

On to Beginning J2EE.  Oy.

Ok, so it's taking me longer to read this than a weekend.  But I've got other responsibilities and priorities so I can't completely devote myself to reading and hacking.  It's called work-life balance.

This is just a basic histogram program. The maximum frequency is 30 just to keep it simple (I mean, jeeze, how many words are longer than 30 characters?). I know this is pretty elementary but after 16 years of not thinking algorithmically, it did stretch my brain a bit.

This exercise wasn't especially interesting except that it's the first C code I've written in about 16 years!

I have some files that need parsed and the fields assigned into variables using only bash and other builtin UNIX commands (not Perl).  The file is colon delimitted and has the following columns:

Perl has a nice little construct that lets you do something like this:

I frequently find myself wondering "what package does such-n-such a file belong to"?

My favorite rpm command comes to the rescue.
<br />rpm -qf &lt;file&gt;

For example, what package does the 'which' command belong to?

http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~reddy/links/gnu/m4.pdf

I've been working with UNIX for about 19 years but I've never taken the time to learn sed and I've only worked a bit with awk.  This book has help fill in quite a large gap in my knowledge and skills.

I'm gathering data about how my company uses LDAP and need to peruse some rather large chunks of the schema + data and turn it into information I can use to build an extraction routine to use with SAS.

I've decided to use Perl to write a dump routine to spit out data to a file. Data::Dumper seems like the right place to start, especially if I want to reuse the dumped data in more Perl code. So, I started out learning about Data::Dumper.