Archives for August, 2009

How the Web Sees Me

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Friday, August 28, 2009 at 2:46 pm. 0 Comments.

Found an interesting article on the New Scientist web site yesterday about an MIT Musem exhibit called Metropath(ologies). In short the installation mines through data ...

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Dynamically Populate /etc/hosts in an AWS AMI

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 2:20 pm. 0 Comments.

I came across a problem recently when setting up some Fedora 8 Linux machine instances (AMIs) on Amazon's EC2 service regarding the setting of the ...

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Yum with Multiple Repos: yum-plugin-priorities on CentOS

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Friday, August 14, 2009 at 2:52 pm. 0 Comments.

I am just putting a new development server together, using CentOS 5, and have come across the same headache as usual - managing standard ...

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Pie Charts with MySQL

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 4:14 pm. 1 Comment.

Hey... ... want to know how to do this with MySQL? [code gutter="false" light="true" wraplines="false"] +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | pie_chart ...

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Getting Weather Information with Python

Posted by Chris Ramsay on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 10:37 am. 2 Comments.

I was searching around this morning for a method of getting sunrise/sunset times into a set of python and bash scripts I am writing to ...

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