A major new release of Homebrew has landed and now includes support for Linux as well as Windows! via the Windows Subsystem for Linux. There are overall stability and speed improvements baked in as well. The aforelinked notification has all the info you need to see the minutiae. Unless you’ve been super-lax in updating, brew… Continue reading
Andreas Diesner’s `#spiffy` [Fit2Tcx](https://github.com/adiesner/Fit2Tcx) command-line utility is a lightweight way to convert Garmin/ANT [FIT](http://www.thisisant.com/resources/fit) files to [TCX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Center_XML) for further processing. On a linux system, installing it is as simple as: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andreas-diesner/garminplugin sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install fit2tcx On a Mac OS X system, you’ll need to first grab the `tinyxml` package from… Continue reading
R lacks some of the more “utilitarian” features found in other scripting languages that were/are more geared—at least initially—towards systems administration. One of the most frustrating missing pieces for security data scientists is the lack of ability to perform basic IP address manipulations, including reverse DNS resolution (even though it has nsl() which is just… Continue reading
Work & home chaos has me a bit behind in the “ThinkStats…in R” posts, but I “needed” to get some of the homebrew kit working in Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 (to run some network discovery tools while waiting for #4’s surgery to be done at the hospital). Keying off the great outline by @myobie… Continue reading