I’ve written a Perl program to spider Facebook. I was looking for a way to quickly generate statistics about the University of California, Berkeley student population, and I figured that since almost everybody had a Facebook account, I could dump all of Facebook’s information into a database and generate reports from that information. Since this [...]
I’ve uploaded pictures taken by CalLUG (UC Berkeley GNU/Linux Users Group) staff during the Richard M. Stallman and Chris DiBona speeches. Please click on either of the following thumbnails to browse the complete album.
Richard M. Stallman Speech
Chris DiBona Speech
Now that I’ve survived my first wave of midterms, I plan on devoting more time to my extracurricular activities.
I’ve noticed that my daily del.icio.us script for Wordpress is broken, so I’ll be updating it to work again, and I’ll be finally addressing the nagging issue of time sync in that script. I also just finished [...]
The UC Berkeley Linux Users Group will be hosting a speech by Chris DiBona, Open Source Program Manager for Google and a former editor of Slashdot, on October 17 from 6-8 PM at 306 Soda. As with all CalLUG events, the speech is open to the public and there will be no cost to attend.
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Penguin Meets A Huge Leech, originally uploaded by zeroion.
Perhaps the penguin represents Linux and the leech represents Microsoft, who has been “leeching” ideas from Apple and Linux. Unfortunately I didn’t have any apples in my [...]
I’ve just finished some intensive tweaking of the Cold Ray Hosting servers. I was able to reduce the memory used by Apache, our web daemon, and MySQL, our database daemon. By reducing the memory used by each daemon, I was able to release memory to other active processes.
The immediate benefit of my tweaks is a [...]
Now that all my midterms are over, I’ve been able to dedicate some time to working on my web hosting company, coldray.com. Our system has been up for a few months, and a user-friendly control panel is now undergoing testing. This weekend, I’ve added one more component to our web hosting offerings: self-service support in [...]
During the weekends, when I have some free time, I’ve been (besides studying and sleeping):
Developing my ISP - pluto.betanegative.com went active last week (since renamed to mars.coldray.com). We’re currently hosted at ThePlanet with a modest amount of disk space and plenty of transfer. Since I’ve been busy with classes, I’ve only been able to configure [...]
I just installed Drupal on zeroion.evilcoder.com. I’m quite impressed by the number of plugins available for Drupal; a lot of functionality can be added to it. It’s also a lot better than php-nuke, which suffers from over-design and just plain ugliness.
In other news, I continue my search for better blog software (does any exist?). So [...]
Just got out of my Chem 4B lab. The lab this week was pretty straightforward, so we finished early. And now, I can finally rest.
I’m going to meet Bryan of ABSK for dinner at 7 around Durant Square, and afterwards, read my Chemistry textbook (quantum chemistry is evil). Sometime afterwards, I’ll setup some test-blogs at [...]