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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts
Having fun and solving problems can be mutually exclusive. Even for professional programmers and system administrators who chose their career because they enjoy problem solving, there can be times when finding a solution is an exercise in the mundane. Luckily, there are tools designed to ease the pain and frustration faced by programmers and [...]
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Cups / FreeBSD / Windows Domain
So as you may know, I’m working on secret PHP project using the Zend Framework. It’s coming along well and I have been taking some notes on the server which is on the local network. I was about to download my notes and print them when I decided that printing directly from the FreeBSD server [...]
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
PHP/Recode fail
I use PHP on FreeBSD servers, compiled from the ports system. It works very well, except that sometimes… well… sometimes… segfaults happen. Yes random, bizarre, “how did this working system suddenly become non-working wtf” errors happen.
Here’s an example of what happened to me today. This is a snip from my lighttpd error log
(mod_fastcgi.c.2722) child signaled: [...]
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
X11 Forwarding via SSH from OpenBSD 4.4 to OS X 10.5.5
Does it work? The answer is yes!
All you have to do is edit the sshd_config file on the OpenBSD machine and set X11Forwarding to yes, then fire up X (I’m using XQuartz 2.3.2 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple18)) and in an xterm (or Terminal.app!) enter
ssh -Y user@openbsd_machine program
Voila!
P.S.: Actually, you don’t even have to start X on [...]
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Vimperator
I love vim. I love firefox. I love Vimperator because it lets me control firefox as though it was vim. Nuff said. If you love vim, then you should install this
http://vimperator.org/trac/
Oh - and Happy 4th Birthday Firefox! (http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-11-09.html)
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
The Latest Reason I Hate Windows Server
Why can’t I just reboot? Why do I have to choose some option from a dropdown? I only wanted to reboot! Now I was tricked into shutting down a server that isn’t even in the same zipcode! What the hell Microsoft? Why couldn’t you make reboot the first choice? Now I’m stuck making calls and [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
So about that Golden Apple Project of mine…
I was just looking through my archives and remembered the Golden Apple Project. Ahhh yes. Well it turns out that the machine was so old it just stopped working altogether. OpenBSD was running just fine on it, but after a year the network card died and when I tried to add a netgear PCI NIC [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
ISC DHCPD duplicate uid lease
Ever see this?
dhcpd: uid lease 192.168.1.150 for client xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is duplicate on 192.168.1/24
or something like it, in your dhcp logs? Well I checked /var/log/messages today and saw that I had thousands of this message repeated over and over (so much so it was spamming my log and making it harder to find what might be [...]
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Wow it’s been a while
I am not going to shut this blog down because it’s still got some useful info on it, but I really don’t update much. I did just help someone who found my blurb about Apple’s ilo-like features, so that was cool. Every now and again someone finds something I’ve posted and thanks me and that’s [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Gourmet Popcorn to go?
I just walked by this place called Garrett popcorn. If you ever wondered what popcorn would cost of 5th avenue, here you go: it’s $2.30 for a small buttered or plain and it’s $185.00 for a 6.5 gallon tin of caramel crisp w/ nuts. The 1 gallon tin of caramel crisp is only $40.
If [...]