Monthly Archives: January 2009

100th blog post!

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

This is my 100th post to this blog! And there’s a lot more where that came from! Token graphage: A domain change (formerly: assistedsilicon.blogspot.com), a platform change (Blogger to WordPress), 805.5 themes, and coming on two years later, the topics … Continue reading →

Posted in Meta | Tagged graph, graphing, pylab | Leave a comment

Easy and informative: Call graphs in Python

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

While I was looking for different graphing modules in Python, I came across pycallgraph. This module allows you to create a graph of all the different calls that occur between the time you initiate it and when you tell it … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged graph, graphing, pycallgraph, Python | Leave a comment

Gorgeous and useful information: Configuring conky

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

For quite some time, I have wanted to use conky on my Linux desktop. The screenshots were incredible. All the best looking and informative Linux desktops I have seen use it. But whenever I tried to follow the tutorials, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Desktop | Tagged Conky, Desktop, monitoring | 3 Comments

Tabs in PuTTY

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

When hanging out in Windows land, life is pretty rough without PuTTY. And while PuTTY is awesome, it too is missing a few nice features. One noticeable default lack is the inability to open multiple tabs with sessions in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Desktop | Tagged CLI, putty, ssh, Vista, Windows | 4 Comments

Tracking down used disk space: Follow largest directories

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Samuel Huckins

When a server is getting low on disk space, you need to find out what is taking up that space, and fast. I previously would run this command in /: 1sudo du -ch –max-depth=1 . This would show all the … Continue reading →