My Name is Bruce Myers and I live in Grand Rapids,MI.
I enjoy hiking, nature and gardening.
Let my trusty friend on the left, Sharpy, guide you on your travels through my website.
My favorite hiking trail is the Chapel Rock - Mosquito Beach trail in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Visit it literally or pictorially.
Take a peek at my pond construction photos.
If your sister jumped out of an airplane would you follow her? I did.
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Recent Blog Entries
My DSL internet was becoming painfully slow, so I decided to upgrade from 768K to 3Meg download speed. DSL was not available to me at 3Meg because of my distance from the exchange. I compared Uverse to Xfinity (Comcast) internet on price and chose Uverse. The order process was simple and it looked like the installation would be the same as the DSL installation. ie. Install phone line filters and plug the new modem in after the activation time. ...
Mysqldump to TSV Conversion Using Flex 2012-04-01
First a little background information. I wanted to import an 8 Gig Wikipedia table dump for a project that I was working on. The table was too big to import all of the records on my Linode server. I only needed certain rows and columns, so I tried parsing the dump file in PHP. This worked, but it was much too slow. So then I went looking for text processor programs. This turned up awk, grep, lex and sed. awk, grep and sed are all line based processors. These would not work because the dump file has multiple database records per line. That left lex and its successor flex. ...
Adventures with ModSecurity 2012-01-08
I saw a reference to ModSecurity while reading the following article on Slashdot: Writing Hardened Web Applications?. It is an Apache web server firewall module that is designed to look for and reject malicious access attempts. What follows are the trials and tribulations of installing it on debian. ...
