Archives – @jbobbylopez

Below is the full list of articles that I’ve posted to this blog. Articles are often curated for relevance or taste, so some older articles may no longer be listed here. Enjoy!

J. Bobby Lopez – Personal Blog (9/21/2003)
The Evolution of AI: Quantum Intelligence, And What It Means For Humanity (9/24/2017)
Tiny linux disk usage reporting script – dux.bash (5/7/2017)
Checking OS Version Across Multiple Hosts with Ansible (3/11/2017)
Our Galaxy is a Seed that Will Eventually Grow into it’s Own Universe (12/28/2016)
Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual – A Review [Audiobook] (10/21/2016)
Arrested DevOps: Operationalizing Open Source With Michael Hedgpeth And Doug Ireton – ADO70 on Player FM (10/15/2016)
rbenv and multiple local ruby version installs (like perlbrew) (9/21/2016)
How to Backup an Ubuntu Desktop (12.04, 14.04) (2/21/2016)
Expressing Your Authority May Be Working Against You (2/14/2015)
Ansible Playbooks – Externalization and Deduplication (2/5/2015)
Examples of recursion, in Perl, Ruby, and Bash (10/23/2014)
Managing Your SMTP Relay With Postfix – Correctly Rejecting Mail for Non-local Users (4/6/2014)
Bad advice on “free advice” (1/29/2014)
Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy – 2010-Jan-29 (1/27/2014)
Beautiful people do not just happen. (12/1/2013)
Every Minute is a Reflection of Life (11/3/2013)
My Fun With Necrolinguaphilia (8/7/2013)
Maybe Big Brother Isn’t As Bad as You Think.. (7/19/2013)
Installing CentOS 6.4 from a Net Install Image on a Virtual Host (7/2/2013)
What is the “Cloud”? (5/15/2013)
Just Another Perl Hacker (4/25/2013)
Please join us in welcoming the newest member of our family! (2/23/2013)
Bookmark Update! (1/20/2013)
Democracy Now: Lawrence Lessig on Aaron Swartz (1/14/2013)
Nosaj Thing “Eclipse/Blue” (1/12/2013)
Why You Shouldn’t be Sharing “Live” Documents by E-mail (1/10/2013)
Team Meetings at the Workplace (1/10/2013)
Adventures with Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) (12/29/2012)
Michio Kaku on the efficiency of gasoline (11/25/2012)
Mmmmm… (8/31/2012)
Experiences and Recorded History (7/14/2012)
People Aren’t Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say (3/6/2012)
Are your feelings as important as those of others around you? Should they be? (3/3/2012)
“I Paint” by Thijme Termaat (2/25/2012)
The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates the 17th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server with the release of v2.4 (2/21/2012)
TEDxUW – Larry Smith – Why you will fail to have a great career (2/20/2012)
UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call And Email (2/20/2012)
Stop And Smell The Roses, But Be Wary of The Road Yet Travelled (2/19/2012)
Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’ (2/19/2012)
Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994) (2/18/2012)
Somethin’ Freaky – Bison on a Sheep (2/18/2012)
Just finished “The Book” by Alan Watts. I like it. (1/29/2012)
Using CouchDB with Perl? (1/22/2012)
[Quote] Alan Watts on the difference between where we are, and where we are going.. (1/22/2012)
Playing With Prime Numbers (10/10/2011)
Playing with Factorials, Haskell, and Perl (10/5/2011)
Now Listening: Deadmau5 – Faxing Berlin (Grifta Dubstep Remix) (8/26/2011)
The Movie Review: Limitless (8/23/2011)
Understanding the Concepts of Classes, Objects, and Data-types in Computer Programming (8/20/2011)
New drug could cure nearly any viral infection (8/10/2011)
A Universe Not Made For Us (8/7/2011)
Trac and Reverse Proxies Using Apache 2 (7/9/2011)
So Whats New? (6/28/2011)
Coke Zero taste in my mouth, and my legs are rather numb (6/19/2011)
Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use (1/11/2011)
Thoughts on Religion and The World Today (1/2/2011)
Someone Hacked My Web Server (1/2/2011)
S5 Presentation Software, XMind, Freemind, and mm2s5 (11/23/2010)
Work on CPAN-API and Perl Modules Indexing (11/13/2010)
Understanding… (10/5/2010)
Jolicloud is of the Awesome (7/22/2010)
Diving in with Arch Linux (4/27/2010)
Syncronizing Xymon’s ‘bb-hosts’ Configurations (1/28/2010)
Using DZEN with Xmonad to view Currently Active Network Shares (1/27/2010)
Nationwide Blackberry Outage – 22/23 December 2009 (12/23/2009)
Xmonad: For Hardcore Desktop User Interface Efficiency (11/13/2009)
Recession, War, Politics, Poverty…. Software Development? (7/17/2009)
Converting Freemind Mind-maps Directly to Perl Hash Trees (5/29/2009)
VMware vSphere 4 Announced! (4/21/2009)
Double Shot of Tequila (4/18/2009)
I’m not crazy (4/16/2009)
WebPIM: A Custom, Web-based, Personal Information Manager (3/27/2009)
Back to Basics – Very Simple Log Monitoring with Perl (3/6/2009)
Sesame Street’s “The Count” Loves to !@#! Himself (2/16/2009)
Configuring X.Org Display Resolutions Under Ubuntu 8.04 (2/15/2009)
Dev Tools: Recent Updates to Bazaar and Loggerhead (2/5/2009)
Second Presidential Debate: Obama vs. McCain (10/8/2008)
Keeping Your Pockets Organized (9/27/2008)
High Praise for Cogeco Cable (9/18/2008)
Why I Woun’t Be Jumping on the “Google Chrome” Bandwagon Any Time Soon (9/18/2008)
Braindump: WxWidgets, Version Control, and Firefox Bookmarks (9/17/2008)
Whats in a Baby Name? (9/5/2008)
Setting Up SSH Keys (9/3/2008)
What Does It Take To Be A Teacher? (8/27/2008)
Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Blogspot.. How Do You Manage? (7/16/2008)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Once Again Read, Once Again Loved! (7/15/2008)
Revision Control Systems (1/17/2008)
Ear Plugs (1/9/2008)
How Enforceable is a Disclaimer? (1/9/2008)
Productivity Tools and Systems (1/8/2008)
Re-embracing The Blog Scene (1/7/2008)
More Than Just Another Todo List (4/24/2006)
Designing Finance Management Software (1/28/2006)
Doing What You Want To Do (1/28/2006)
Happy Holidays (12/27/2005)
J. Bobby Lopez, VMware Certified Professional (10/5/2005)
Working at VMware (8/5/2005)
At Work, on The Road, at Home… Practical, Non-intrusive Solutions to Data Syncing (4/11/2005)
Methods for integrating feedback and discussion functionality into a website (3/7/2005)
Diet SQL? (3/3/2005)