Archive for May, 2008
RDTSC using GCC
26 May 2008A lot of the work I do involves making a given piece of code do the same thing it used to do but in less time (some people call it optimisation). The first step in this is to accurately quantify the amount of time taken to perform some piece of work and to that end […]
OpenSSH upgrade
15 May 2008The latest version of the openSSH server/client has just landed for both Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 and this has generated some problems with our local network. Namely our public/private keys that we use for password-less access between our development machines, turns out the keys were generated using a version of openSSL that had a faulty […]
What is my IP address?
14 May 2008If you are on a 192.168.*.* subnet the following should work for you
ifconfig | grep -e 192.168 | grep -o -e addr:[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]* | grep -o -e ‘[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*’
which gives you a nicely formated “192.168.0.1″ or whatever your ip address might happen to be
BT Tax Guide
12 May 2008tax guide
Mounting NFS under Ubuntu
8 May 2008Just realised that NFS support is (somehow) not included out of the box with 7.10 so when I added an NFS mount to my fstab like so
192.168.xx.xx:/bigraid/sunshine /sunshine nfs user
and then attempted to mount with “sudo mount /sunshine”, I got an error as follows
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.xx.xx:/bigraid/sunshine,
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Until you Fall
7 May 2008My boy Liam has been working real hard getting his music career off the ground and I am very happy to post a link to his first video clip “Until You Fall” which is fresh off the press and now up on youtube.
Tasque
1 May 2008Just saw this app from the Remember the Milk page and decided to give it a go. Tasque is a gnome mono app that allows you to manage your RTM task list from the desktop, which is quite handy for me (I can add stuff straight from gmail but I don’t want to have gmail […]