Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/10/28/postgresql-database-restored-from-filesystem/
lnk.to is back online. I was even able to restore the database. I was skeptical, at first, because I could not understand quite how the Postgres database was laid out, filesystem-wise. And the install provided was different in layout than the install that had preceded it. How much fighting with Postgres would be required? (more…)
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/10/27/unix-viz-good/
Unix people tend to be comfortable in their non-visual command-line world. But sometimes a picture says an awful lot:
Read that as “around 11:40, someone sent a mass e-mail through the server. It took twenty minutes to process, peaking at 916 deliveries per minute.”
What’s more, the vast majority of the deliveries were successful, and some failed. That looks like a legitimate bulk mailing to a fairly well-maintained list, and not some random virus or brute-force spam attempt. Server resources are not being wasted on nonsense.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/10/19/dovecot-sounds-good/
I’ve done UW-IMAP, Cyrus imap and Courier. Dovecot sounds like it took the best of all three:
(Thanks, Photo Matt)
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/10/16/mplayer-keyboard-shortcuts/
Yesterday we were abuzz on IRC because Jon Stewart appeared on Crossfire, and castigated them for doing a disservice to the people. Pretty funny to watch — if you watched it. Which I had not. And not even my TiVo could offer any help, because unlike Comedy Central, CNN doesn’t rebroadcast each show they do fifteen times a day.
Necessity being the mother of invention, I was shown the ways of BitTorrent, which distributes piping hot digital warez of all flavors through distributed bandwidth, and when Microsoft Media Player proved useless in the presence of a DiVX CODEC, I found that there was a Windows port of MPlayer, invented for Linux weenies who for a long time had limited video capabilities. Forced to fend for themselves, MPlayer now surpusses what ships with your Windows OS. So much for the value added retail price of $500 or whatever Windows costs these days. (more…)
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/10/14/firefox-1-port-freebsd/
From the bleeding edge — get it working thusly:
portupgradebookmarks.html.mozilla directorysudo firefox to set things upchown -R `whoami` .mozillabookmarks.html backAt least it works well under Windows.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/10/12/dumbest-update-ever/
Dumbest Update Ever, brought to you by Microsoft.
Apparently, NT will have trouble if it is installed on a disk that is too large, or, it’ll just completely lose its nut at a date in the future, when a Microsoft update will destroy the ability of the system to function, without wiping and reinstalling it. (more…)
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/09/20/windows-startup-registry/
Run regedit and review http://www.absolutestartup.com/help/Winstart.htm.
God I hate Windows.
And, for the record, Trend Micro PC-cillin sucks in many layers. I’m not going to elaborate.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/09/14/make-realplayer-suck-less/
Q: RealOne Player is evil and it sucks ass. I hate it. Is there anything else that can play RealAudio while sucking less?
A: Download Real Player 8 from http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html. This is a pretty decent version of the software that was written before they starting loading it full of spyware that auto-reinstalls itself. Be careful — it’ll occasionally offer to upgrade itself. Just hit cancel when it does.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/09/14/howto-create-tar-archive-from-manifest/
I had a list of files that someone requested. I wanted to put them in a tar archive, but the tar on the box doesn’t have an option to add a list of files. Huh. Well, this is quick and dirty, and will choke if you have any space in the filenames, but it met my purposes: (more…)
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/08/24/whatever/
So, lnk.to is situated in its new home. It is something of a shadow of its former glory, but things have been busy. I’ll be flying to California this weekend for a wedding.
People miss the “top” and “recent” listings, so I hacked up a quick top page as an exercise in making SSI XBithack <––#include virtual ––> work. But I’m mainly thinking this leads to a new Lnkto::Chain class that can return a list of Lnkto::Lnk objects. But I’m too distracted to do that right just now.
I attended a seminar on customer service today as well. It was somewhat beneficial. I am moving our “run book” / “employee guide” to yet another architecture. (MediaWiki versus POD versus WordPress.) This seminar has given me material I should include on stress management, and how to do a phone call well, and left me with ideas as to how to improve call-management procedures, with an eye toward metrics. I would feel bad about “re-implementing” my documentation a few times over, but this is my first time through something like this, and I allow myself room for experimentation. Ultimately, I suspect that the happiest medium will be some combination of Wiki and Blog software. But that’s an entirely new subject …
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/08/19/lnkto-preview/
Please visit http://p0.lnk.to/ and test it out.
The database will be wiped out and loaded with current http://lnk.to/ pretty damned soon.
But if you find a bug before then, I would be happy to hear about it.
Thanks,
-danny
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/08/18/look/
You may already know about /usr/dict/words, /usr/local/share/dict/words, /usr/share/dict/words or wherever it is on your local system that the list of English-language words is installed. I don’t know how many times I have egrepped this file to check my spelling.
Apparently though, there’s been a handy command available since Version 7 AT&T UNIX. It is called “look” and it is handy for looking up words. (more…)
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/08/16/hoohah/
The other tech support guy is out this week, so its all me, all day.
And of course, because its Monday, we have to be slammed by dumb people. (more…)
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/08/12/lnkto-progress/
I keep messing with how the database table should work, and I had a hard time figuring out how to create a new key within a class referring to an object that I am hash-tieing to the lnkto table with Tie::DBI, but the good news is, that I’ve actually gotten started. It is a little frustrating at the moment, but the knowledge that I am building a class that will make writing the actual web site so much easier is good for morale. (more…)
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2004/08/10/quick-linux-peeve/
You know what’s lame? I frequently log in to Linux boxen and try to invoke “vim” only to get “command not found.” Now, this would be reasonable on Solaris or BSD, where they maintain their own version of vi, but in Linux, vi is vim, only it is vi, and not vim. Why? … It seems so pretentious. “Vim? You mean ‘vee eye?’ I got one of them, sure, although it is just vim … but you’ll have to type vi. You know, that’s how it is done on Unix systems.”
Or is there some GNU vi that is going around?
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