Images from a Morning Walk

Posted on March 27, 2006 | Comments Off on Images from a Morning Walk



Images from a Morning Walk

Originally uploaded by S.D..

I was passing by on my way to work when she poured water on the sidewalk to clean it. When she saw me, she was nice enough to smile for the photo. From my Camera, she thought I was a professional! At the Elephant Parade, Semyon pointed out that as long as your lens has a Lens Hood, people will think your a Pro.

Posted from Flickr.
Still needs work. I wonder If I need to modify the CGI program to have a default Catagory when being hit from Flickr?


Music I'm listening to right Now:
"Brother where you bound" by Supertramp from the "Brother where you bound" Album.

 

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Fault Tolerant Servers

Posted on March 27, 2006 | Comments Off on Fault Tolerant Servers

Words you never want to see on a Server console:

Hit F1 to Rebuild Drive

Needless to say, I was a little Worried. The Proliant is an Odd and quirky server to set up. The 256 megs of RAM in it do not have a sequential addressing scheme. For the Non technical: It has big gaps in it's memory. To get Linux to "see" the memory properly, you have to map the memory segments in grub.conf or Linux will think you have 640K only and will just not install. 

Aside from this, the server  is a Pentium Pro with Old SCSI drives that are one big sequential volume. I've set it up and forgot about how I did that exactly. Being a bit of a chicken, I did NOT hit F1, backed up the server and then rebooted and hit F1. It came up perfectly and near as I can tell, the files are intact. RAID is a beautiful thing.

BTW, I know the Proliant 5000 is an old  server with "old" technology, but that's exactly why I'm using it. Linux has a small footprint so it doesn't need a "Kick Ass" server to run nicely. To make life more fun, Compaq SCSI drives are more reliable than IDE with a lower MTBF.


Music I'm listening to right Now:
"On her Mind" by Duncan Sheik from his "Daylight" Album.

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Multiple Ip’s on a secured server

Posted on March 26, 2006 | Comments Off on Multiple Ip’s on a secured server

Once again, I'm running into something fairly easy, but I'm not sure quite how to do it. I'm retiring one of my older servers (It makes really ominous noises) on account that if I shut it down, I'm reasonably sure it won't come back up.

I've configured all the software I need on it and simply want to assign another ip address to a Network Interface that already has one. No problem, aliasing it was not a problem. The problem: configuring the firewall to allow traffic to that interface. Traffic is hitting the eth1 IP that is destined for the eth1:0 ip. It's probably a simple FW change, but I'm so not seeing it. The frustrating thing is: I've done this exact config on so many other systems professionally. Nuts.


Music I'm listening to right Now:
"Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Ah" by "The Trio" from their "Da Da Da" Album (Sample on Amazon)

Quick Update: Ipod on shuffle followed with "Fa Fa" by Guster from their "Lost and Gone Forever" Album.
Very Odd.

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Backup Server is up and running

Posted on March 25, 2006 | Comments Off on Backup Server is up and running

Ok, some background: My current server is an Old Comaq Proliant 5000. The current Kernel does not support my SCSI drive array without recompiling the Kernel. To make matter worse, one of the drives in the array is reporting that it needs rebuilding. I have a backup server (which while faster is not as Fault Tolerant) for just this contingency.

Build the Server: Done
Install All needed PERL Modules: Done
Install MySQL: Done
Install Movable Type: Done
Restore the DB and certain Directories: Done
Test MT: No Good

The problem: Getting GD to work. 

What a Pain that was. I have a tendancy of getting proficient on things that work, so when something new breaks, it takes me a little while to figure it out properly. In this case, the "fix" was re installing GD-Devel.


Music I'm listening to now:
"Would You…?" by "Touch and Go" from their "I Find You Very Attractive" Album. 

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Walking The Dog

Posted on March 25, 2006 | Comments Off on Walking The Dog
 


Walking The Dog

Originally uploaded by S.D..

This was posted via my Flickr Account. It Sort of works, but I may need some customizing to get it to work the way I'd like.

While on a walk during lunch, this little dog attempted to ensnare it's owner.


Music I'm listening to now:
"Blood and Roses" by "The Smithereens" from their "Especially for You" Album,  

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Repetitive Tasks…

Posted on March 25, 2006 | Comments Off on Repetitive Tasks…

When I take photos, I save them on my PC as RAW files in a directory based on the Day I take the photo( ie 2006-03-25). It's fairly simple but tedious.

Things like this is exactly why I became a programmer. I have Perl on my PC so I made a quick little script to copy  the files based on the last Mod time on the Compact Flash file. Simple and Easy.

 


Music I'm listening to now:
"Gotta Knock a Little Harder" Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts on the "Cowboy Bebop: Future Blues" Album

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Flickr Meetup – The Elephants Have Arrived

Posted on March 21, 2006 | Comments Off on Flickr Meetup – The Elephants Have Arrived

Went to see the Elephants march into NYC. It was a lot of fun, and I met more people from Flickr. The funny thing is: Couldn’t get too many photos of the Elephants! Those guys are Fast! LarimdaME did a great job of wrangling us all together. Other than freezing my toes, it was a great.

Got a lot of other shots that I put up in Flickr.


Music I’m listening to now:
“Crazy” by Seal from Seal (1991)

Note: Seal’s Music Never gets Old.

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Ajaxify: EnhancedEntryEditing by Arvind Satyanarayan

Posted on March 19, 2006 | Comments Off on Ajaxify: EnhancedEntryEditing by Arvind Satyanarayan

Ajaxify: EnhancedEntryEditing by Arvind Satyanarayan is a Very cool and useful Movable Type Plugin.

It makes use of another program called TinyMCE for creating and Editing Movable type pages. Turns out that you can configure TinyMCE for all sorts of Options.

 

Among Other Things:

  1. Easy Ordered  Lists
  2. Tables
  3. Insert/Edit Flash
  4. Easy Font Control
  5. Easy HTML Code viewing/editing
  6. Easy Custom Character (∞) insertion
  7. Sub and Super Script
  8. Easy Color Control

It's a Nice plugin.

 


Music I'm listening to now:
Nothing, I'm watching TV (TLC on Cable) with my Wife

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Mars Needs Women

Posted on March 18, 2006 | Comments Off on Mars Needs Women

No not really, but the Title got your attention. Google now has Google Mars. This is on top of Google Moon and Google Earth. You could read about it here on Google Blog.

It's a pretty interesting site that allows you to, among other things, allows you to find out where various space craft (or their remains) is located on Mars surface. As a child, I had a gigantic Map of Mars on my wall from the National Geographic. The Google Mars site makes me wish we had Web pages back in the day…


Unrelated: "Mars Needs Women" was a movie in 1967. You so have to go to BMovie Central to see an actual clip of the movie. I kid you not, the Main character, Dop, wears what looks like a Wet suit with Duct Tape for Silver Stripes.


Music I'm listening to now:
"Did You Get My Message?" by Jason Mraz  from Mr. A-Z

 

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Flickr Meetup – Hey Hot Shot!

Posted on March 18, 2006 | Comments Off on Flickr Meetup – Hey Hot Shot!

Via the NYC Social Flickr group, photographers have the opportunity to meet people with the same interest in photography. It also gives you the opportunity to meet people who actually post on Flickr. This is the second one I've been too and like the first, it was a lot of fun. This is the photo we took in the Really Small vestibule at Nyonya, a really good Malaysian restaurant on Grand Street. Many is the time I've eaten there and I highly recommend it. A few of us went there after meeting at the Hey Hot Shot reception.

In this meet up, we went to the Jen Bekman gallery Wednesday night. Lots of great photo's displayed, interesting people; in short, It was a lot of fun. I got wind of it via the NYC Social Flickr group, but it's been advertised via word of mouth all over the place.

The "Hey Hot Shot" competition is a great idea by Jen Bekman. It gives interested photographers a chance to submit their work, have it reviewed by professionals and, if selected by the panel, displayed. I think it's a great idea and I hope for it's a continued success.

Photo originally posted by me on my Flickr account. 


Music I'm listening to now:
"Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" by Gorillaz from Demon Days

 

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