http://polibyte.com/ 2012-01-12T04:43:20-05:00 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki 2011-10-06T00:46:11-05:00 2011-10-06T00:46:11-05:00 http://polibyte.com/resume?rev=1317876371&do=diff Brian Pitts

If you have an opportunity that you believe would interest me, please write to brian at polibyte dot com. You can download a nicely-formatted and condensed PDF of my resume here. Academics * Master of Arts, University of Georgia * Bachelor of Arts, Emory University * BA and MA in Political Science * Minor in Computer Science

2011-10-03T12:13:05-05:00 2011-10-03T12:13:05-05:00 http://polibyte.com/code/last_day?rev=1317658385&do=diff Brian Pitts

A wrapper script that executes a command only on the last day of the month. The success or failure of the command is logged. Find it on github. code, ruby

2011-10-03T12:11:20-05:00 2011-10-03T12:11:20-05:00 http://polibyte.com/code/focuser?rev=1317658280&do=diff Brian Pitts

The Focuser class is a python interface to rainbow from Andrew McCallum's 'Bow' Toolkit. You must have already trained rainbow. At the moment, the path to the model's parent directory is hard-coded into the program. For example, if you have a model in /home/username/models/free_trade you would replace /PATH/TO/MODELS/ with /home/username/models/. You could then create and use a new Focuser like this

2011-09-12T18:19:21-05:00 2011-09-12T18:19:21-05:00 http://polibyte.com/blog/updating_dell_firmware?rev=1315865961&do=diff Brian Pitts

Dell has several methods for updating their BIOS. Working Approach Out of all the different approaches, this is what I cam up with that successfully let me install the latest BIOS without taking a trip to the data center. * Install smbios-utils from EPEL * Download the BIOS package from the Dell website, here is an example * Rather than running what you downloaded, just extract the files, e.g. ./PER610_BIOS_LX_2.1.15.BIN --extract bios_files