Sunday, November 21st, 2004
I am a recent convert from “blogs in tabs” to a RSS aggregator called NetNewsWire. Because of this instead of reading 5-10 different websites a day I can now quickly (almost as fast as I can read mail in pine) scan through almost 80 different subscriptions.
One of the coolest ways I’ve been able to integrate NetNewsWire into my life is by utilizing the RSS feeds that are built into PHPwiki. Now when an article is modified on our corporate wiki I get a nice link and summary.
Now if I could only convince the last two remaining blogs that I read that don’t have RSS/syndication: Nick Finck and Digital Butterfly.
Sunday, November 21st, 2004
I am spending my evening repairing a MySQL table. I was going to document here on the problem and the resolution, but Jeremy Zawodny has already done so on his blog.
So in short, if you are getting errors about your mysql table being full, this is more than likely the fix.
I learned about iTerm from some comments on photomatt’s weblog. I looked at this application about a year ago and didn’t see any reason to use it over terminal.app (besides tabbed terminals).
But it’s better now. I recently took a contract job that required setting up 8 servers (FreeBSD). This is something that would take me a few hours normally. With iTerm’s option of “Send input to all tab’s” I can now open sessions to each server and every command I type on one tab is replicated to all the other tabs. Very cool.
If they could just work out some other bugs(?), like not being able to turn off the toolbar (the option under view doesn’t work, but you can click on the oblong button upper right hand corner), and for some reason my font and color settings aren’t saved.
Overall, I think i’ll continue to use iTerm for when I need to replicate commands to many servers at once; probably won’t be replacing my every-day terminal though.
Sunday, November 23rd, 2003
Sophia is in the neglect-o-matic because it seems to be the only thing besides pacing the room that will keep her quiet at the moment. She’s fighting not to sleep really hard. I thought I would take advantage of this time (being awake) to scribble some online.
I’m almost done setting up a corporate IM server at work. We are using jabberd and i’m quite impressed with it so far. I’ve tried out at least 5 different jabber clients for OS X and have decided that nitro is the most pretty, but does not have a whole lot of options. It might be a project I would be interested in getting involved with to start playing with Xcode.
We are headed to Portland for thanksgiving to spend time with my family. Charlotte and I are bringing a 20lb Shelton turkey and two bottles of Allegrini Amarone red wine.
I should spend some time putting together the other areas of this site I have planned but it’s so difficult to find time now days. Just so I don’t forget, J. remember to upload the reviews of the iPod and iPhoto Book. Also you were thinking of documenting how you were able to create transparent copyrights on your images. Oh, and why not copyright the existing gallery and write your thumbnail code?
Sophia is now sleeping in the swing. I moved it down to the lowest rocking speed. She weighed 11lbs 12oz on Friday. Charlotte and I are really proud of her. It’s a shame that she just fell asleep and I will have to wake her up in 15 to give her some meds. Oh, also; she’s starting to smile and make little noises now. More a deliberate emotion than before. It’s nice seeing them grow up and mature. She has some outfits that are too small now.
It’s time for her medicine now. I’ll go wake her up and then hope I can get her back to sleep before 3am. lates.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2003
So here I am migrating two servers so I can start tcp-banging some alteon switches to see if I can reproduce some crashes i’ve had on live systems. I suspect that I just need to get a support contract to get the most recent WebOS for those switches but hey, i’ll do my best to spare the company 1 grand.
I’ve been alerted to several OpenSSL vulnerabilities that mean i’ll have to yet-again patch most of the computers at work (last time from the twice-released OpenSSH vulnerabilities).
And then I’ve got Freeradius that is crashing and burning on FreeBSD. Best I can tell the software runs out of threads and then stops authenticating. It’s being impossible to trouble shoot because in debug mode (yes, with threads enabled) the server behaves very well. The answer can’t be to use Linux, can it?