ZAZZYBOB.COM NEWSLETTER November 2004 ======================= ============= Contents -------- * Preamble * ZBKB * SUSE RAID * Tips and Tricks * Script Repository * C Programs * Rants * Fortune.shtml * shutdown -h now Preamble -------- This e-mail has been designed with plain text e-mail clients in mind, and looks best when viewed using a monospaced font. You are receiving this mailing because you asked for it when you signed up to the Zazzybob.com Members Area. If you want to stop receiving this newsletter, sign into the Members Area, at http://www.zazzybob.com/members/login.html and select "Change Mailing Details" from the list of tools on the main members page. ZBKB ---- I have recently uploaded ZBKB, a fully featured Knowledge Base application written in PHP, which uses PostgreSQL as its DB backend. Full source code is, of course, included, as is documentation. You can get ZBKB from http://www.zazzybob.com/zbkb.html SUSE RAID --------- If you've never used the software RAID provided by the Linux kernel and Raidtools, I'd recommend giving it a try. I have recently carried out a series of tests using SUSE 8.0 and 8.2, using RAID1 and RAID5. See the article/tutorial at http://www.zazzybob.com/suseraid.html for more inforamtion. Tips and Tricks --------------- The Zazzybob.com Tips and Tricks library is now online at http://www.zazzybob.com/tips.php It's a bit sparse at the moment, but I will be uploading tips and code over the next few weeks. You can also submit your own tip by visiting http://www.zazzybob.com/tips.php?type=submit Script Repository ----------------- Another update at the Zazzybob.com Script Repository http://www.zazzybob.com/bin.html I've added many new scripts, most notably "tcltree.tcl" which is a TCL script to display tree-like representations of directory structures, and "rping" which will ping a list of addresses specified in a file. Other smaller additions include "sugid", "myterm", "revwords" and "revwords.awk". Also added are "remcoms.sed" to remove comments from C/C++ programs, "neartime" to display what the time "nearly" is (!), and "cpiobak" which is a configurable backup script. C Programs ---------- Many moons ago while I was learning C, I wrote some small programs. Some are re-implementations of Unix tools, others are new programs. I have uploadeded these to http://www.zazzybob.com/misc_c.html Of note is "p_ind", which displays various forms of progress indicators and can be called from shell scripts. Rants ----- I have uploaded a rant about a certain browser (guess which one) effectively breaking core HTML functionality. See it here http://www.zazzybob.com/popup_rant.html Fortune.shtml ------------- If you haven't already seen it, ThinkGeek have a fortune generator (http://www.thinkgeek.com/fortune.shtml). My favourite so far has to be... /************************************************************* * Before you criticise a man, you should walk a mile in his * * shoes. * * * * Then you are a mile away from him. * * * * And you've got his shoes. * *************************************************************/ shutdown -h now --------------- Until next time..... Cheers, Kevin Waldron kevin@zazzybob.com http://www.zazzybob.com