bash: Checking a port number

By docwhat | Published: 2010-07-16

Image by Manfred Heyde.

Ever needed to check if a given port number is valid in bash? It’s harder than it looks because if you accept any input from the user, you can’t use declare -i since it spews errors and aborts functions if the input is malformed.

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IAT on Cygwin

By docwhat | Published: 2010-07-03

Image by Tjeerd Wiersma

For those that use Cygwin on Windows, Mike Hostetler has a post detailing how to use Cygwin editors with It’s All Text!
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English in IIS thread

By docwhat | Published: 2010-06-14

Peter noticed today that IIS has an error in the English for one of its dialog boxes. We immediately searched for it and found this bizarre thread.

It’s hard to read it in its original form, so I have re-organized it here and saved it for posterity.

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Two ways to improve OS-X…

By docwhat | Published: 2010-04-19

I found this excellent article, Mac OS X SSD tweaks by Ricardo Gameiro, and have stolen two of the ideas for my non-SSD MacBook Pro laptop. I’ll cover all three, though, since I don’t agree with his hibernation trick.
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We Haz Ferrets!

By docwhat | Published: 2010-04-09

The ferrets in question.

We just got our selves a pair of ferrets. Yay! And boy are they cute and energetic.

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