http://polibyte.com/ 2012-05-18T17:50:28-04:00 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki 2012-05-17T16:55:28-04:00 2012-05-17T16:55:28-04:00 http://polibyte.com/resume?rev=1337288128&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

2012-05-15T02:13:47-04:00 2012-05-15T02:13:47-04:00 http://polibyte.com/blog/how_nethogs_works?rev=1337062427&do=diff Brian Pitts

There are a lot of underappreciated monitoring utilities for linux. From time to time, I plan to dive into one and write up what it's useful for and how it works. I'll start with nethogs. Unlike most network monitoring tools, nethogs breaks down traffic per-proccess rather than per-host or per-protocol. Its focus is answering the question “What program is using my bandwidth?”. It provides a top-style interface for real-time monitoring. So how does it work?

2012-05-15T01:14:46-04:00 2012-05-15T01:14:46-04:00 http://polibyte.com/blog/automatically_fixing_the_gnu_screen_environment?rev=1337058886&do=diff Brian Pitts

Stale environment variables, particularly those related to SSH agent and X11 forwarding, are a well-known problem for GNU Screen users. Search google and you'll find many solutions to this problem (including one from my fellow Athenian Sam Rowe), but I wasn't happy with having to manually run a command to fix each screen window. Thus, I whipped up a script I call rescreen.

2012-05-14T19:45:01-04:00 2012-05-14T19:45:01-04:00 http://polibyte.com/about?rev=1337039101&do=diff Brian Pitts

I’m a twentysomething male resident of Athens, GA. I moved here for graduate school, but now my time is mostly divided between system administration tasks for a bioinformatics resource center and volunteer work for Free IT Athens. To contact me, write to brian at polibyte dot com. Online, I'm active to varying degrees at the following places:

2012-04-27T01:32:52-04:00 2012-04-27T01:32:52-04:00 http://polibyte.com/blog/export_news_from_google_sites?rev=1335504772&do=diff Brian Pitts

I've added a script, export_google_site_news, to my catchall repository on github. It's for downloading the section of a Google Sites hosted webpage generated by the News Gadget. It takes two arguments, the address of your site and the name of the news section. It will download all the news stories it finds as html files into your working directory.

2012-03-30T09:24:47-04:00 2012-03-30T09:24:47-04:00 http://polibyte.com/gift2010?rev=1333113887&do=diff

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