I really like automating processes and Open Source software is great for that. Here is one such incident.
Background: when you are managing other peoples’ stock portfolios, you don’t just login to E*Trade as them and buy/sell stocks. You trade the stocks through a trading system (like E*Trade but there are many others), the trading [...]

[This is being reposted since I’m too lazy to move the WP database from the old host to the new host. — f^2 ]

If you’re writing alot of file to a USB Drive formatted with ext2/3 file system, here’s a tip that will speed things up tremendously (for various values of “tremendous”): mount the USB [...]

[This is being reposted since I'm too lazy to move the WP database from the old host to the new host. -- f^2 ]

An old client called up with a problem. Whenever he went to one of the sites he hosts, he was prompted to download a trojan. He didn’t test all of the sites [...]

We’ve just moved hosts to hostgator! So far, everything seems pretty good.
Still gotta figure out the mail-sending part.  I use mutt and postfix locally, so if you’re not getting any email from me forthe next coupla’ days, you know why.