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Looking forward to biking!
It’s still winter here but day dreams are wandering towards spring. For fun I’ve started planning out a possible bicycle ride on the Maine coast. A quick search provided a wealth of information. For the gear I’m using my dependable old Pure Fix bike. A minimalist city bike once used to get from Quincy toContinue reading “Looking forward to biking!”
ClamAV on MacOS via pkgsrc
I desired to be able to do an anti-virus scan on my MacBook. After trying and paying for several large proprietary alternatives and being dissatisfied I decided to try and use ClamAV like I do on Gnu/Linux. At the time of this writing there is a proprietary GUI using ClamAV in the backend but thatContinue reading “ClamAV on MacOS via pkgsrc”
Convert an XML feed to a new Mastodon status.
I’ve been greatly enjoying a social media alternative called Mastodon. For fun I’ve started on a PHP script to convert XML, RSS, and ATOM to a new Mastodon status. While there are multiple libraries that can do this such as simplepie, it seemed like a good exercise to write one from scratch. I currently haveContinue reading “Convert an XML feed to a new Mastodon status.”
WhereAmI? Situational Awareness with HostReconX.
After stumbling upon the useful HostRecon, I hope to start a conversation on a possible non-Windows variant called HostReconX, targeted at macOS and Ubuntu. It is a shell script that gives the user common environmental information. I have merely begun an outline of the code and have only tested on my personal laptop. As timeContinue reading “WhereAmI? Situational Awareness with HostReconX.”
A Great User Group: Boston Linux & Unix
This is an excellent example of a to notch computer user group. Check out The Boston Linux & Unix User Group. They have several email lists and meet once a month in or around MIT. The members are diverse and you would be surprised at the talent lurking. I have enjoyed their “discuss” list forContinue reading “A Great User Group: Boston Linux & Unix”