Michael Papet

Use Debian’s awstats to make pretty IIS log graphs and charts!

Verizon business service doesn’t provide service. Just people picking up the phone.

I am in the unpleasant position of having to do a couple of things related to my MythTV server.

The server is off most of the time.  We just don’t use it very often and it doesn’t make sense to keep a dual-core PC running for no reason.
Manually update the tv schedule on my MythTV box. The [...]

A script to recategorize misspelled words in the popfile corpus.

How to install and use Debian Testing.

The attached script is a perl version of some popular Drupal MySQL database optimizations plus a mysqldump. I added some extra stuff. I suppose it might work on a Microsoft OS, but I didn’t check into it at all.
Please note: The script is dual licensed.
-If you are using it for your non-revenue producing [...]

Debian has KDE 4.3 packages in Sid. If you are running Debian’s testing then, it’s not too hard to get it installed. FYI: Debian’s Testing version is equivalent to running a Ubuntu distro only the bugs are (on average) fixed faster.
1. Add Sid repo’s to your sources.list
2 create a /etc/apt/preferences file and [...]

I found myself needing a perl script on a windows server. I run strawberry-perl distro on these servers. The perl script needed libxml2. As you may not know, strawberry-perl is built with entirely free tools. (mingw) There is the gnuwin32 project that builds gnu libraries using Microsoft’s build tools, but [...]

This is a follow-on to my last post here.
Typical form mail garbage that has nothing to do with the problem from Barracuda Networks. My replies are in bold. Thank you for contacting Barracuda Networks regarding your issue. Your issue is important to us. We have assigned a confirmation number: **** to this [...]