Gamer #1 — The youngster. The youngster grew up playing games… The NES isn’t so much nostalgic as archaic. They don’t have much money working on getting through high-school, college, or fresh out. But what they lack in cash flow they make up for in time. These are the purists. If this person spends $60 [...]
This is just me screwing around, really…. This implements a counting bloom filter in native php. I read about bloom filters this morning, and wrote this tonight in between playing Command and Conquer 3 campaign missions. The hashing function is configurable (and easily extensible,) rehashing the key multiple times to reduce the chance of collisions [...]
This is a simplistic use of the pattern that I wrote about in my last post to wait on multiple commands in bash. In essence I have a script which runs a command (like uptime or restarting a daemon) on a whole bunch of servers (think pssh). Anyways… this is how I modified the script [...]
You know that you can run something in the background in a bash script with ( command )&, but a coworker recently wanted to run multiple commands, wait for all of them to complete, collect and decide what to do based on their return values… this proved much trickier. Luckily there is an answer #!/bin/bash [...]