Category Archives: Open-Source

Facebook Spider

Posted on 1/26/2006 by Stephen

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Open-Source, Perl, Tech | 21 Comments

Richard M. Stallman and Chris DiBona Pictures

Posted on 10/29/2005 by Stephen

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 … Continue reading →

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Back in Business

Posted on 10/20/2005 by Stephen

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, Open-Source, Perl, Tech | 3 Comments

Chris DiBona Speech

Posted on 10/14/2005 by Stephen

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkeley, Cool, Linux, Open-Source, Tech | 1 Comment

Bad Meets Evil

Posted on 5/3/2005 by Stephen

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Penguin Meets A Huge Leech, originally uploaded by zeroion. Perhaps the penguin represents Linux and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny, Open-Source, Random, Tech, Windows | 3 Comments

Server Tweaking

Posted on 5/2/2005 by Stephen

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, Linux, Open-Source, Tech | 3 Comments

coldray.com’s wiki

Posted on 4/24/2005 by Stephen

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. … Continue reading →

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So What Else Do I Do?

Posted on 9/19/2004 by Stephen

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Berkeley, Brewing, Linux, Open-Source, Personal, Tech, Unsorted | 2 Comments

zeroion.evilcoder.com is up!

Posted on 2/28/2004 by Stephen

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 … Continue reading →

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Here Comes the Weekend…

Posted on 2/27/2004 by Stephen

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 … Continue reading →

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