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Dirty Patch for Yaird and 2.6.16 ATA Block

3/10/2006 – 12:10 am

When trying to use Yaird 0.0.12-7 with a recent 2.6.16 release candidate kernel, I noticed that it fails for vanilla ATA devices as the logic for discovering the device node doesn’t work with changes to the sysfs tree. I opened a Debian BTS bug and included the patch below, which needs to be cleaned up [...]

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polltc 1.04 pushed

3/7/2006 – 12:37 am

I updated polltc finally. I haven’t had much time to mess with traffic control, so I haven’t really been watching all the patches and bug reports streaming in. Write something for a tight niche and users will come, I guess. I fixed a pretty huge bug with a regex pattern that prevented stats from being [...]

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gcupdate, small Perl hack for OFX/QFX payee field

10/22/2005 – 5:28 pm

gcupdate is a small Perl hack (~ 50 lines) that removes some of the noise from QFX/OFX payee names so they sort better in spreadsheet tables and accounting software if you wish to sort by payee and not just your assigned categories. I used Config::General to make it possible to hardcode output for entries on [...]

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polltc 1.03 released

10/7/2005 – 7:54 pm

I finally updated polltc with a few minor changes and fixed a warning. # 20051003 v1.03 # Added support for pulling readable names for class minor ids from ENV # Added support for stacked graphs, but set default to LINE2 # Added the graph into the network group for Munin (Xavier Dutoit, sydesy ltd) # [...]

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polltc 1.02 released

1/28/2005 – 3:48 am

Thanks to the contributions of several people, a new version of polltc is available with bug fixes. It should work on a wider range of traffic control configurations now. From the README: BACKGROUND polltc_ is a small Perl script I wrote for gathering statistics on the effectiveness of a given traffic control configuration under Linux. [...]

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