PYTHON MODULE DOCS
I’ve been trying to get into Python in my spare time, since it’s got such a huge volume of modules and looks like it should be easy to be ripping it up in no time. But of course, I have my complaints. Fortunately I don’t need to write a long blog post, this guy did it for me. It’s kind of alarming this post is from 2 years ago and the docs are still a major problem.
MACBOOK AIR CONCLUSION
I made a post back in December regarding my MacBook Air and a battery life issue. About 2 weeks ago, I brought the Air back to the Apple store again, despite being completely shot down the first time. I had a 12:30 appointment, got there right at 12:30, but no one talked to me for a few minutes, so by the time I got someone’s attention, I was informed since I was late, they cancelled my...
BASH QUICK TIP - SUBSHELLS
When you’re in a shell, and you want to do 1 or 2 commands in another brand new shell, but don’t feel like opening a new window, try using a subshell. Here’s an example: ~ jhaddad$ pwd /Users/jhaddad ~ jhaddad$ ( cd /tmp/; touch bacon.txt ) ~ jhaddad$ pwd /Users/jhaddad ~ jhaddad$ ls -lah /tmp/bacon.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 jhaddad wheel 0B Apr 15 13:09 /tmp/bacon.txt Why I like it: I...
SSH REVERSE TUNNEL TO ACCESS BOX BEHIND FIREWALL
I frequently need to get access to a machine behind a firewall to do some web development, but I don’t have a VPN available. Not a problem - just use a reverse SSH tunnel. By the end of this tutorial, we’ll be able to SSH to the remote server, as well as view any web pages that server has access to. We’re going to connect to the remote server using our local port 5000 -...
TEXTMATE - STOP ._ BACKUP FILES
Pretty sure this stops TextMate from creating the ridiculous backup files in my network shares. defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakDocumentDisableFSMetaData 1
CANCEL MY GOOGLE!
I can’t believe this stuff exists… I love the internet. hello i am 82 years old and google is on my computer withour permission IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. my compoter is slow now and i want to contact the internet what is the number? Original awesome post
RUNNING PUPPET MASTER ON MAC OS X SNOW LEOPARD
_As of a few hours after this post, I’ve given up trying to get Puppet Master running on Snow Leopard. There appears to be an issue with the SSL certificates generated that’s preventing puppetd from getting it’s recipes. There doesn’t appear to be any way to disable this. I have switched to a CentOS VM, which worked perfectly the first time. The Unixy underpinnings of my...
'DEAR PRICELINE: SERIOUSLY, WTF?'
Dear Priceline, You really can’t do better than $680 for a flight from LAX to Vegas? Seriously, why is this the #1 listing? For those of you who aren’t aware, it’s a 1 hour flight that normally costs $60 each way. Southwest (cropped out middle prices for simplicity) Lame.
THE LACK OF FLEXIBILITY OF STORED PROCEDURES IN MYSQL
Over three years ago I wrote about how you cannot use a stored procedure in a subquery. Well, it’s 2010, and I’m still annoyed by this and a handful of other things. I was just working today on a report consisting of a series of queries, taking about a minute to generate. Some of the data would be created in a temporary table and queried against multiple times for performance reasons,...
'REDHAT/CENTOS: CONTROL APACHE STARTUP WITH CHKCONFIG'
Copy apachectl (or symlink it) to /etc/init.d/httpd, and add these two lines at the end of the comment section: chkconfig: 2345 64 36 description: script for starting and stopping httpd chkconfig –add httpd These commands will now work: service httpd start service httpd stop Additionally, apache will start when the system boots. You can accomplish this by using rc.local too, if you prefer,...