My (infrequently updated) Blog...

After my friend neal recently started using OpenBSD, I decided to upgrade the version on barwise (the machine of mine that hosts this website, along with others) and also decided to update a few packages I maintain.

phpsymon has been updated to work with the new(er) versions of symon/symux. I also gave xosd-clock an update, and even wrote two new xosd-* applications, xosd-systat and xosd-battery. The first is a simple system monitor that outputs, essentially, the first few lines of top(1) to your X root window (like xosd-clock). The second is a simple battery monitor that does the same thing, showing if the power source is either AC or battery, and how much battery is left both as a percent and a simple bar-graph. Battery information is queried through sysctl(3)'s, which you specify on the command line.

On a side note, when writing xosd-battery, I wrote another program called find-sensor-mibs which displays the MIB (Message Interface Buffer) of all attached sensors. I used this to write a sysctl(8)-like function where you supply the sensor name as a string, and it returns the MIB array. It could be extended to query other sysctl objects, which I plan to complete here shortly. Kinda handy for applications such as this where the sysctl name is supplied by a user.

Three blog posts in one year... I fear I might actually become a (gulp) "blogger".

But the magnitude of this development demands it.
It's my civic nerd duty to report that the gloriously unthinkable is, in fact, happening.

Tron 2 is coming! (and Jeff Bridges WILL BE IN IT)

XKCD comic here.

I suppose it's that time of year again when I "blog"...

NIN just launched remix.nin.com.
If you like NIN and haven't checked this out, you should.

until next year...

While reading the man page for setquota, a utility that makes managing user/group disk and file quotas easier to automate, I came across the following...

     Block sizes are in the form of valX where X is {K,k} for kilobytes or
     {M,m} for megabytes.  The default unit is kilobytes.

     Inode sizes have no modifiers.  Cope.

That's right... don't whine or complain... don't make a "feature request" for something that you could automate in a one-line shell script... just cope with it.

At 3:44am, I find this hysterical. With that, I'm going to bed.