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January 6, 2013

(Home) Inventory Software

Filed under: Database,Projects,Software — Landis V @ 7:10 pm

Something I’ve thought about off and on for some time.  Looking primarily at open source software.  This post may be updated as I continue to look.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/asset-tracker/ – last updated 5-Apr-2012.  Fairly rudimentary interface.  Simple.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/homeinv/ – last updated 22-Feb-2011.  Interface looks nice.  Vulnerable to SQL injection (here) and not being updated any longer (here).  Also need to make sure to install php-mysql, php-pear, and php-pager to get it operational.

http://xataface.com – Pretty simple and fairly customisable, just need to build the backend database properly.  Not sure about handling of images, but does appear to support BLOB fields, might be able to use with an inline image (stored in the database) or link to an images database in that case.  This also looks like a fantastic frontend for the grocery price and location database with a small amount of tweaking.

http://www.vfront.org – similar to above.  Doesn’t appear to do pictures.

December 28, 2012

Low End Box – Cheap VPS Hosting Providers Listing & Reviews

Filed under: Internet,Links,Linux,Web Applications — Landis V @ 7:15 pm

http://www.lowendbox.com/

There have been a few times I’ve thought it would be nice to have a small, “low end box” somewhere for various tasks and viewpoints to the world.  They list some pretty good prices here, down to about a dollar a month for some of the very lightweight solutions.

Why I Might Drop the iPhone 5 for the Galaxy Note II, and you should too. – Forbes

Filed under: Android,Apple,Technology — Landis V @ 6:43 pm

http://www.forbes.com/sites/edzitron/2012/12/28/galaxynote2/

December 26, 2012

bash – what is the windows equivalent of the command “date+%s” – Stack Overflow

Filed under: Links,Monitoring,Software — Landis V @ 11:22 pm

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11124572/what-is-the-windows-equivalent-of-the-command-dates

The VBScript at the bottom of this article has proven functional for me on XP.  I haven’t tried any of the other suggestions at this time.

December 11, 2012

Shrubbery Networks, Inc. – RANCID

Filed under: Configuration Management,Cygwin,Links — Landis V @ 8:34 pm

RANCID is one of those tools that will bubble up in my mind every now and then for some purpose.  I’ve tinkered with it a time or two but it never quite seems to “just work” in the situations I’ve put it in.  Probably because most of them are nonstandard.

Once again I’ve been trying to get it working in a less than typical scenario (under Cygwin, and with HP switches rather than Cisco gear).  Encountered some problems with it not properly retrieving configuration from the HP’s, and just kinda hanging the process.  I didn’t really do a whole lot of investigation on it.  I’ve written some Expect before, but I don’t have the time to dig into it right now just for some statistical information.  So, instead I’ll just make some notes on what I did find in case I ever get a chance to get back to it.

Several people mentioned having problems with terminal length, but that didn’t appear to be the source of my problems.  Tested with rancid-run, clogin, and hlogin all to no avail.  I was able to log in interactively with hlogin, but on logout it left the hpuifilter process running in the background looking like it couldn’t find its parent process to talk to.  Below are a few of the articles I ran across while troubleshooting and still have open in tabs  (tabs I would like to close out, which is my primary reason for making these notes).

 

Tips For Linux – A Quick Introduction to Bash Programming – Part 2

Filed under: Links,Linux — Landis V @ 8:01 pm

http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles2/044.html

Useful.  I’m always forgetting how to do shell math.

December 6, 2012

Building a Mac and iOS App Store Software Update Service « 318 Tech Journal

Filed under: Apple,Links — Landis V @ 7:56 am

http://techjournal.318.com/scripts/building-a-mac-and-ios-app-store-software-update-service/

This is something I looked into doing when configuring a bunch of iCrap to allow caching of an iOS update, but ultimately didn’t have time to do and just downloaded each update.  (I get the irony of not having time to set up a caching server, yet having time to wait for all the updates to download; there were other individuals actually performing the updates and doing other things while they ran.)  Wanted to make a note of the procedures here in case they become relevant at some point in the future.

 

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