June 28, 2009
I’m currently working on rebuilding a server on a project, and went to hit the tab key to auto-complete, when I was presented a delightful error…
$ vim RE-sh: <( compgen -d — ‘RE’ ): No such file or directory
-sh: <( eval compgen -f -X ‘*.@(o|so|so.!(conf)|a|rpm|gif|GIF|jp?(e)g|JP?(E)G|mp3|MP3|mp?(e)g|MPG|avi|AVI|asf|ASF|ogg|OGG|class|CLASS)’ — $(quote_readline $cur) ): No such file or directory
This is actually a reported bug in Debian [#502804] and is caused by using /bin/sh as a shell, rather than /bin/bash due to some POSIX compliant code. A simple change to the shell until they release the fix..
usermod –s /bin/bash jangliss
And we’re all set again.
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June 3, 2009
One of my more popular posts, oddly, is about CapitalOne and Fraud, which is going on nearly 2 years old now. There are a number of comments on the thread, but I noticed something that just started bugging me. When replying, I had no way of creating a nicely formatted reply (threading).
So I went in search of plugins, and discovered that Wordpress 2.7.1 actually supports it natively, you just have to update your themes. I found a great reference here which detailed how to do it, but it seemed to not work, so I went in search of more details. I found that the old comment handling used to be performed using an array, and you’d have to setup the formatting yourself. They now provide a nifty function wplistcomments that outputs the entire array of comments for you, including all the settings for the reply information.
You can see the new modifications at work here on this post, see the second comment down is indented to reflect a comment to Bill.
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May 23, 2009
I’ve been on the SquirrelMail project for quite some time now, and an administrator on the project for several years. One of the things that has always been an issue has donations. As there are multiple people that contribute to the project at varying levels at different times, we’ve never figured out a good way to handle donations. Other projects, such as MySQL, setup a foundation, and generate enough donations that they’re capable of supporting full time working developers. Whilst it’d definitely be cool to do that, we’re not there project wise. So recently Paul sent out a rather interesting option, and it hit the lists.
He gave the users the ability to donate to individual people on the project, as well as sign up for bounties. The copy of the announcement can be found here. The other option was bounties. This has been used on several open source projects before, and the idea is that people “sponsor” a project, bug, or target. There are already several listed, but we’re always looking for more ideas. So if you have some, submit an idea.
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May 20, 2009
One of the things I’ve been working on is migrating our equipment over to the corporate domain off of our domain. For the most part, this has been relatively easy, and given me some changes to fix some things I’ve wanted to get to, but not had time to. One of the stumbling blocks was cutting the file server over to the new server.
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April 19, 2009
Every now and again, I get on a creativity kick. It’s not always an artistic type of kick, just creative….
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April 7, 2009
Today I’ve decided to finally shut down a trusty server. It’s been the office firewall for 4+ years, happily chugging away on an old HP desktop, running Gentoo linux.
$ uptime
08:44:48 up 267 days, 17:51, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
It’s currently been running for nearly a year. It’d be double that if we’d not had an issue with a snake, and the office transformed. Before that, it’d been running without issues for nearly 2 years, where the failure before that was caused by a PSU fan failure.
It was recently phased out with some network reconfigurations, and is no longer needed…
Good night lestats.
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April 1, 2009
Bill and Theresa will probably get a kick out of this, especially as they seemed amused by stories of my son’s (mis)adventures when we took them out for dinner so long ago.
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March 29, 2009
Apparently the folks at Microsoft get bored from time to time, and knock out small handy tools, but never really announce them to the world. Here is one called “RichCopy”. Mentioned on the TechNet magazine this month, the name hints at what it is… An improved copy/move utility, with lots of options. The cool one I have been after for a long while… threaded copy. Check it out… lots of cool bits and pieces.
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March 20, 2009
Courtesy of the::unwired, news of YouTube’s new mobile client for Windows Mobile, and Symbian clients. I must say, I’m rather impressed. Blazing fast searches, nifty scrolling, and pretty damn good video quality too. Have it deployed on my Motorola Q9h, works nicely. Only issue I’ve uncovered is the search box, but I believe this is an issue with my phone, as the backspace key acts as the “back” button for general navigation too.
You can get it too at http://m.youtube.com.
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March 19, 2009
I’m a little bit of a photography fan. I might not be great , but I do enjoy playing around with the gear. A few weeks back, Joe McNally announced a new book. I took advantage of Amazon’s pre-ordering, and snapped one up. It arrived today. Now to get reading…
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