Author: Marc

C struct initialization and strptime bug

I wrote some code to use strptime to parse a human-readable time string into a struct tm and I had a bug where the struct had the hour one hour in the past, which suggested a daylight savings time (dst) problem. After puzzling...

General

Upgraded to WordPress 1.5

I made the switch from WordPress 1.2 to WordPress 1.5. Pretty easy and I noticed that some annoying bugs in 1.2 were fixed, so I don't have to waste time looking for patches. Perhaps most notably, I can post trackbacks to other...

Music

Yahoo! Launch is now Yahoo! Music

Same service. Different name. http://music.yahoo.com/...

Project Management

The Fifth Discipline

The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge was mentioned in my Role of the Project Manager class, as a good resource about goal misalignment....

TiVo

BusyBox compiled for TiVo Series 1

Index of ftp://ftp.alt.org/pub/tivo/mirrors/kazymyr/

General

A Bourne shell function for repeating a command

This is one of my favorite Bourne shell functions. It lets you repeat any command at a regular interval. rept () { delay=$1; shift; while true; do eval "$@"; sleep $delay; done } For example, if you want to monitor the size of a...

TiVo

Got Telnet working to my TiVo Series 1!

Yesterday, I took the A drive out of Series 1 TiVo and put it in my PC , booted Knoppix, and did a backup using "dd" (mfstool would not work for me, presumably because my TiVo Series 1 has two drives and mfstool probably needs to...