http://www.culmination.org You are what you've become. Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:50:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.culmination.org/2008/12/21/wicked-cool-ruby-scripts/ 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 ... http://www.culmination.org/2008/12/10/cups-freebsd-windows-domain/ 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 ... http://www.culmination.org/2008/12/08/phprecode-fail/ 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 ... http://www.culmination.org/2008/11/20/x11-forwarding-via-ssh-from-openbsd-44-to-os-x-1055/ 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) http://www.culmination.org/2008/11/09/vimperator/ 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 ... http://www.culmination.org/2008/11/04/the-latest-reason-i-hate-windows-server/ 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 ... http://www.culmination.org/2008/10/28/so-about-that-golden-apple-project-of-mine/ 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 ... http://www.culmination.org/2008/10/28/isc-dhcpd-duplicate-uid-lease/ 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 ... http://www.culmination.org/2008/10/21/wow-its-been-a-while/ 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 ... http://www.culmination.org/2008/05/21/gourmet-popcorn-to-go/