Read My Shorts

Nov
9th

Mon

Mac and "Cheese" nutritional Yeast

3 1/2 cups elbow macaroni
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup flour
3 1/2 cups boiling water
1.5 tsp salt
2 Tbs tamari
1.5 tsp garlic powder
pinch of turmeric
1/4 cup oil
1 cup nutritional yeast
paprika to taste

Boil pasta while preheating oven to 350 F.

In a saucepan, melt margarine over low heat.
Beat in flour with a wire whisk and continue to beat over a medium flame until mixture is smooth and bubbly.
Whip in boiling water, salt, tamari, garlic powder, and turmeric, beating well to dissolve.
The sauce should cook until it thickens and bubbles.
Then add oil and yeast flakes.

Mix part of this sauce with the noodles.
Put noodles in a casserole dish and pour the rest of the sauce over the top.
Sprinkle with paprika and bake for 15 minutes at 350.
Then broil for a few minutes until “cheese” sauce gets stretchy and crisp.

Nov
2nd

Mon

… to copy the inner identity to the outer identity [for accounting] (works with freeradius 1 and 2):

DEFAULT FreeRADIUS-Proxied-To == 127.0.0.1 User-Name := `%{User-Name}`, Fall-Through = yes

— Nabble - FreeRadius - User - EAP/TTLS on LDAP with freeradius 2.0.1

Oct
15th

Thu

InformIT on Pattern Matching

Using the replace() function in Javascript, $& is the found pattern.

Oct
9th

Fri

Research shows that motorists talking on a phone are four times as likely to crash as other drivers, and are as likely to cause an accident as someone with a .08 blood alcohol content.

— Driven to Distraction - NYTimes.com

Sep
25th

Fri

Clear print queue in OS X

Works like a champ!

<blockquote>cancel -a -</blockquote>

Sep
22nd

Tue

JavaScript undefined vs. null

JavaScript is annoying me today.

Use if(!foo){foo="bar";}

Sep
18th

Fri

Still Seeking an Exploded Tinderbox for Tiger – 0xDECAFBAD

Oh, I completely agree! Except I never got sucked into TinderBox because I didn’t trust that I could get out ALL of my metadata. Exploded Tinderbox would be the best Finder replacement ever!

Sep
11th

Fri

use expect on local machine

I thought I was going insane because expect_out didn’t exist and I was starting to loathe expect … and it turns out that all I needed was to

spawn sh

. There goes a day of searching for the wrong answer to

can’t read “expect_out(buffer)”: no such variable

!

Sep
3rd

Thu

Example 14-17. Using set with positional parameters

Interesting … how to fake out ‘getopts’ and maybe support short and long options without needing a different options processor.

Sep
1st

Tue

non-greedy matching with sed

The trick to get non greedy matching in sed is to match all characters excluding the one that terminates the match. I know, a no-brainer, but I wasted precious minutes on it and shell scripts should be, after all, quick and easy. So in case somebody else might need it:
Greedy matching
% echo "<b>foo</b>bar" | sed 's/<.*>//g'
bar
Non greedy matching
% echo "<b>foo</b>bar" | sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'
foobar

Or, if you want to echo the input without displaying -p password then use
echo $@ | sed 's/-p [^ ]* /-p **** /g'