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Out of fun I wrote a simple Python script to pull the version number out of Intel's ucode firmware, for example, the firmware used by my wifi driver. I needed this so I could see what version I was running versus a new version I had downloaded from Intel's Linux Wireless site. So here is the ...

I've recently been running network benchmarks and I wanted to highlight a quick gotcha that caught me out. My benchmark script would run ifconfig before and after the experiment and record the number of packets sent and received. The same would be recorded on another machine which was generating the packets. I started to notice a ...

A while ago I wrote a python script that does a similar job to GNU's watch command. You use it like so: ./persec.py [--interval=<n>] <command> so for example ./persec.py ifconfig Now in a similar way to watch, it executes the command every second, and highlights the differences between each execution. However, in addition to this it ...

I just purchased the Humble Indie Bundle, 5 games which run on Windows, Linux and Mac. They kindly offered md5 hashes, however they weren't in a convenient format, so I created a md5sums file. 187287db6226ef6a306a4cd0cfa8dd45 *Aquaria111.2008.12.12.exe 8b24ddeeb553e028bbd501102f891cc2 *aquaria-lnx-humble-bundle.mojo.run 336d89eb431e0b00535a2b50146c579d *WorldOfGooSetup.1.30.exe f5afa40893d0fbcc37885191404f6d8c *WorldOfGooSetup.1.41.tar.gz b373132f6e78665f1076752b038a8218 *gish153-1.tar.gz 94e82d53e2104914f19ec97f7cf5da42 *gish1531.zip 41ea2e41fe42c40b5ad017ae1afb45c7 *lugaru-full-linux-x86-1.0c.bin d40d4076ed3ffa2a9bc9913202c55a06 *lugaru-windows.zip 56060bb550e0cd7e90bc7bc60d7c4c23 *penumbra_overture_1.1.exe 539567b590cf53e65a8e8f1b2bc728b3 *penumbra_overture_1.1.sh and for ...

I came into my office today to find that my keyboard would no longer type capital letters. The shift, caps lock, and even num lock keys seemed to be broken. After a quick WTF it was pointed out to me that VMWare occasionally does this to Linux machines. Thanks to Matt who showed me a quick ...