I've updated my résumés to be current.

Did some small modifications to the check_memory command I've been using to monitor servers memory use. The existing command included chache/buffers in the memory use - which was making a server look like it was in an error condition, when it was actually working normally. (Buffers/Cache SHOULD be using up free memory!)

Here is the modified check_memory. It uses bc, so make sure this is installed.

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If you find your pppd is not running /etc/ppp/ip-up , check if you have ifname specified in your peers/options. For me, having this option A) didn't change the name of the interface, and B) kept ip-up from being ran.

prevu is a useful tool for building packages from different releases.

However, when prevu fails (due to changes in the .dsc format, or depending on options in dpkg that were added in a specific version), remember prevu is just a script for setting up a chroot build environment, and you can still grab the orig source and ubuntu/debian diff, apply one to the other, then use dpkg-buildpackage to do the same thing. It won't be quite as neat, as you will need to install the build dependencies, but it should work where prevu doesn't.

In Vim, you can "show whitespace characters" using
:set list
eol is shown with $ and \t show with ^I .