ClamAV Live CD back up

So, after my previous web host screwing me over and everything and me finding a new host, getting it setup again, losing all my backups from the old site, a recreating a lot of content, the ClamAV LiveCD is back up.

http://www.volatileminds.net/projects/clamav

Only like a month late, but this release is pretty nice. The previous releases were using Edgy, but with Hardy being an LTS release, I decided to upgrade the CD to Hardy until the next LTS release. It makes the CD about 20 megs bigger, but I think having the latest drivers and stability is worth it.

Grepping and Awking text

I have been working today on retrieving, formatting, and displaying text in a certain way and have learned a lot about grep and awk. For instance, grepping strings with hyphens isn't as easy as "grep -dev". What you need to do is "grep [\-\]dev". I was also needing to get every other line of output from one command, and I found a way to do that in awk:

command | awk 'NR > 2 && (NR % 2 == 0 ){ print} /^$/{NR=0}' | xargs other_command

This stuff is quite fun. Hopefully, pretty soon, I will have a bunch of scripts that get what hardware you have (as seen by linux) and get the Windows-driver counterpart among other things.

The Bitch Album

:-)

Metallica - Ain't My Bitch
Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch
Alanis Morissette - Bitch
Ben Folds - Bitches Ain't Shit
HED PE - Bitches
Eminem - Bitch
Ludacris - Move Bitch
N.W.A. - One Less Bitch
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch up
Snoop Dogg - Bitch Please
N.W.A. - Bitch iz a Bitch
Jet - Cold Hard Bitch
Guns N' Roses - Back Off Bitch

Programmer vs Pornstar: The Duel

1. We use our hands all day long.
2. Chances are the thing we are working on has been worked on by more than one person.
3. We can do it at home or at the office.
4. If you are sober, you might make things worse.
5. As long as you finish, who cares how you get there.
6. If you can't finish on time, you will probably get fired.
7. Your free time and work time don't differ very much.
8. The end result is all people care about. (related to 6, but not the same)
9. When you can't satisfy the other person, you call in backup.


From this logic, there isn't much of a difference. ;-)

A Happy Medium

I love programming. I also love being social, having friends over, etc... But the problem is that the two don't mix well at all. I could go on and not talk to people for days as long as I was in the middle of a good project or two. It has happened before, it will probably happen again. I could also stop programming in my free time and go hang out with people instead. This isn't optimal (at all). I have yet to find a happy medium of the two. Yes, I am a programmer by trade. Sometimes, work is a bit slow and I don't get much programming done, but other days it is all that I do (especially at the beginning of a project). I love it (outside of writing documentation). I really don't want to end up like a lot of (open-source) developers that spend their whole life programming, not starting any families, etc...

There is a happy medium out there, I just have yet to find it.

FBench Redux: With Threads

DISCLAIMER: These aren't "professional" tests. These are just me running and giving you what I have found. Don't take these as cold, hard facts.

I added support for threads in FBench to see how Mono and .NET do compared to each other with threads. Most of the results weren't very surprising, but running them both threaded at the same time gave some very interesting results. I realised I was running an older version on Mono (just a couple minor build behind), so I updated it to the latest windows build on the Mono site. Pictures Below:

This is Mono and .NET running unthreaded. I first ran .NET, waited for it to finish, then ran Mono.

This is Mono and .NET running threaded (2 threads). Again, I ran .NET first and Mono second.

This is running both at the same time. This wasn't very surprising. (I clicked .NET, then Mono as fast as I could :-) ).

These are the results that surprised me. Running them both threaded at the same time (.NET, then Mono) resulted in Mono being considerably quicker (~7 seconds quicker).

Source: http://code.google.com/p/fbench-sharp/

Top 10 people who annoy me

Ranked from most annoying to least annoying (though they are still really, really, overly annoying).

1. Carlos Mencia
2. Sarah Jessica Parker (I am sure she is nice/not annoying in person)
3. Steve Jobs
4. George Lopez (not nearly as bad as Carlos Mencia, I can at least watch him without wanting to kill myself)
5. Paris Hilton
6. Theo de Raadt (of OpenBSD fame)
7. Steve Ballmer (he has gotten better over the years, a couple years ago, he might have beat Carlos Mencia)
8. Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. (aka Perez Hilton)
9. Flava Flav
10. Bret Michaels