Irssi typing speed script
I have written an irssi script which measures how fast you type on IRC and reports both words per minute and characters per minute.
More details and download: WPM script.
Detecting memory type on FreeBSD
If you need to upgrade your RAM on a Windows machine, you can just use the Crucial Memory Advisor wotsit, which scans your computer using the power of, er, power to find out what your motherboard is, what RAM you already have, and then can tell you which overpriced Crucial RAM to buy.
On FreeBSD, this doesn’t work so well. However, you can tell manually tell the Crucial site what motherboard you have and it will tell you exactly what sort of RAM is best.
This is fine if you know what motherboard you have.
if you don’t, the answer is dmidecode(8) (/usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode). This utility grabs the same information which the Crucial thingy does, so all you need to do is find the info you need.
A productive day
What a productive day (for a Sunday):
Released bMotion 0.1.0 - only about 3 years after I planned on it originally. 0.1.0 is greatly improved over the previous version, and a few weeks ago I finally decided I should stop pointless tinkering with it and get a stable releasable version :)
Finished Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on the DS - mainly in celebration of releasing bMotion.
Started using my Simple Monitor project at home and on my colo, and it’s working well so far. The only problem was that both machines needed Python updating to support the native sqlite class. Once that was fixed, both worked fine and are now monitoring their services. Once I get some other features I’m planning on written in, I’ll release it for other people to try.
