DEC 30

Sample code:

anim = Magick::ImageList.new(*Dir["/some/path/*.jpg"])
anim.each {|img| img.resize!(200,200) }
anim.delay = 10
anim.unshift Magick::Image.read("/some/image.jpg")[0].resize(200,200)
anim << Magick::Image.read("/some/other/image.jpg")[0].resize(200,200)
anim.write("animated.gif")

Example image:

DEC 03

After seeing Christian von Kleist’s solution, I couldn’t help but play with it a bit to come up with this:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

puts ARGV[0].split(/\s*/).inject([]) {|n,i|
  n << ((%w[+ - * /].include?(i)) ? (b,a=n.pop,n.pop; "(#{a} #{i} #{b})") : i)
}[0]

DEC 03

My extremely lazy whack at the latest Ruby Quiz. Turns a postfix expression into an infix expression via regular expressions.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

str = ARGV[0].split(/\s+/).join('_')

while str.include?('_')
  str.sub!(/([^_]+)_([^_]+)_([+\-*\/])/, '(\1 \3 \2)')
end

puts str

A few test cases I used in developing the solution before turning it into an actual script:

require 'test/unit'

def postfix_to_infix(str)
  str = str.split(/[^.\d+\-*\/]/).join(' ')
  while str !~ /^\(.*\)$/
    str.sub!(/([^ ]+) ([^ ]+) ([+\-*\/])/, '(\1\3\2)')
  end
  str.gsub(/([+\-*\/])/, ' \1 ').sub(/^\((.*)\)$/, '\1')
end

class PostfixToInfixTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  def test_postfix_to_infix
    assert_equal '2 + 3', postfix_to_infix('2 3 +')
    assert_equal '12 + 34', postfix_to_infix('12 34 +')
    assert_equal '1.2 + 3.4', postfix_to_infix('1.2 3.4 +')
    assert_equal '(1 - 2) - (3 + 4)', postfix_to_infix('1 2 - 3 4 + -')
    assert_equal '(56 * (34 + 213.7)) - 678', postfix_to_infix('56 34 213.7 + * 678 -')
  end
end

DEC 02

Throughout this post, I’ll use foobar as a fake domain. You should replace this with the appropriate domain(s) for your own use.

First, install AWStats.

$ sudo apt-get install awstats

/etc/lighttpd.conf will need to be modified; this will be slightly different if you want to use a directory instead of a subdomain to check your stats.

/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

server.modules += ( "mod_cgi" )

$HTTP["host"] =~ "stats.foobar" {
  alias.url = ( "/icon/" => "/usr/share/awstats/icon/",
                "/css/" => "/usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/css/",
                "/cgi-bin/" => "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/" )
  cgi.assign = ( ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl", ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl" )
}

Make sure this works by visiting http://stats.foobar/cgi-bin/awstats.pl. You should get an error message from the AWStats CGI file.

In /etc/awstats, make a awstats.foobar.conf file, replacing foobar with whatever is appropriate for your purposes.

/etc/awstats/awstats.foobar.conf

LogFile="/var/log/lighttpd/access.log"
LogType=W
LogFormat=1
SiteDomain="foobar"
HostAliases="localhost 127.0.0.1 REGEX[foobar$]"
DNSLookup=1
DirData="/var/lib/awstats"
DirCgi="/cgi-bin"
DirIcons="/icon"
SkipHosts="127.0.0.1 localhost REGEX[^192\.168\.]"

Run awstats.pl to initialize the statistics database.

$ sudo -u www-data /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=foobar -update

Your stats should now be visible at http://stats.foobar/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=foobar.

Now all that’s left is editing the crontab and logrotate configuration files to automatically populate the stats.

/etc/cron.d/awstats

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * www-data [ -x /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -a -f /etc/awstats/awstats.foobar.conf -a -r /var/log/lighttpd/access.log ] && /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=foobar -update >/dev/null

/etc/logrotate.d/lighttpd

prerotate
  /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=foobar -update
endscript