Monthly Archives: April 2009

Speed up your firefox (ever so slightly)

So I noticed my places.sqlite has grown to over 80M. Since Fire­fox 3 thats where things like book­marks are stored. I guess fav­i­cons are stored in that same data­base. At any rate I am very tab happy. I have to con­trol myself and about once every 2 weeks or so I have to sit down

Nice console regex helper

Last week I stum­bled on a nice con­sole regex helper. It’s not that I’m bad at regex but switch­ing between sed, vim, python, perl regex trips me up a bit some­times. Go ahead and check it out for your­self [.]quit [0]reset [*]color [/]programs ^txt2regex$ !! not sup­ported RegEx perl : RegEx php : RegEx post­gres:

Improving debians nginx init script

nginx is a high per­for­mance HTTP and mail proxy server writ­ten by Igor Sysoev. I’m not sure what the init scripts do for other dis­tros but it seems a bit of an over­sight to leave out check­ing the con­fig file when run­ning the init script. Add this line to your nginx init script right after

Testing mail servers with swaks

I hadn’t seen this tool before so I fig­ured I would share. Swaks is the swiss army knife SMTP accord­ing to the home­page. I’ve cov­ered test­ing email from the com­mand line before but this tool sure makes it easier.