The fix (change to whatever language or version of english you’re using eg en_GB):


export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
dpkg-reconfigure locales


If you get the following warning below for apt-get or dpkg in ubuntu:

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings ubuntu

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = “en_US.UTF-8″,
LC_ALL = “en_US.UTF-8″,
LANG = “en_US.UTF-8″
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (”C”).
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

First install imagemagick.

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Then cd to your folder with your jpg images and type the following:

mogrify -quality 75 *jpg

Image optimization quality is defined by the number after -quality. In this example 75%.

Sometimes wordpress plugins can interfere with the basic functionality of wordpress such as uploading files.

One plugins was preventing a jquery action occuring to reveal an image which had been uploaded with the wordpress image loader.  The file was there, but you couldn’t send it to the browser.

The fundamental blog layout can be pretty crap for converting visitors unless you have exceptional content that can’t be found anywhere else.

The ‘above the fold’ (top of the page before scrolling) area on most blogs is usually taken up by one story and a bunch of basic links in a sidebar. Layouts like Smh homepage are optimized to get a user to click on an article with a selection of images associated with articles.

Hot images can really help increase ctr. The band of images near the bottom of the fold on the shm is a proven converter.

Here are some blog layouts that help with converting one time visitors into two time visitors.

• Pajamas Media
• Huffington Post
• I can has cheez burger
• Apartment Theory
• Underwire
• Style Hive
• Style List
• xxlmag

If you’ve created a new larger elastic block store volume from a snapshot with more disk space and size you will need to also resize the partition.

Let’s say you have mounted the new volume on /dev/sdh at the mount point /vol on an xfs partition. Note you need to have the new volume mounted already.

Type into your terminal:


xfs_growfs -d /vol


The above will expand space out to the maximum available. Also if you cannot umount your old elastic block volume so you can detach and attach your new volume try the following:


umount -l /vol
umount -f /vol


How to install and run Ie6 on Internet Explorer on Ubuntu Ibex with Wine Tricks.


sudo apt-get install wine
sudo apt-get install cabextract
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks ie6

To run Ie6:

wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/iexplore.exe

If you’re moving or copying MySQL Binary files be sure to do the following:

• myisamchk –silent /path/to/mysql/data/files/*/*.MYI (check integrity)
• chown -R mysql:mysql /path/to/mysql/datafiles
• chmod -R 0660 /path/to/mysql/datafiles

Hilarious excerpts from SlashDot – a nerdy tech site on an article about male fertility:

“A host of common chemicals is feminizing males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people. Many have been identified as ‘endocrine disruptors’ or gender-benders because they interfere with hormones. Communities heavily polluted with gender-benders in Canada, Russia, and Italy have given birth to twice as many girls as boys, which may offer a clue to the mysterious shift in sex ratios worldwide. And a study at Rotterdam’s Erasmus University showed that boys whose mothers had been exposed to PCBs grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea sets rather than with traditionally male toys. It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminized genitals. It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone. And sperm counts are dropping precipitously. Studies in more than 20 countries have shown that they have dropped from 150 million per milliliter of sperm fluid to 60 million over 50 years.”

On behalf of my fellow males I’d like to say:

…shit

Yah, but the males that are left have 2x better odds. TWOOOOO GIRLS FOR EVERY GUY

If you think that actually means you’ll get chicks then I suggest you remember where it is that you are posting

Women will get so desperate they can’t resist any male guy! My plan is all falling to place. Muahahahahaa.

This makes me think about a period after a war with Brazil and Argentina when Paraguay’s government actually encouraged polygamy.

I could be happy in a place like that.

Polygamy? Most man can hardly tolerate one wife!

You think tolerating multiple wives is difficult, try more than one mother in law!

no problem, just go for sisters!

That’s not the downside of Polygamy.

The real downside is that women who live togather tend to have synchronised menstral cicles. Imagine your pain on that one weekend off when you get home to find 5 wives and nobody to screw.

Or worse. 5 wives with PMS all bent on “discussing” your failures with you.

That’s not the downside of Polygamy.

The real downside is that women who live togather tend to have synchronised menstral cicles. Imagine your pain on that one weekend off when you get home to find 5 wives and nobody to screw.

Or worse. 5 wives with PMS all bent on “discussing” your failures with you.

Men Weaker Sex

I looked at different ways to “Search and Replace” Text in Files Recursively using the Linux Command Line.

“Find and Replace” with grep and sed combinations all sucked so I created this Python script to search through files and folders recursively for text then replace it. This script also creates backups of the files before it does the string replace.

Here is how to use it:


./fnr.py '/path/to_begin/from/' 'string to find' 'string to replace'


The script uses python regex regular expression syntax:


./fnr.py '/path/to_begin/from/' '^Let me tell you a funny .*$' 'Let me tell you a funny story!'


Here is how to set it up:


wget --output-file=fnr.py http://images.honewatson.com/random_files/find_replace_files.py
chmod +x fnr.py


Here is the code:


#!/usr/bin/env python
#search recursively through folders and replace text in files.
import sys, os, re, string, subprocess

setup_find_results(base_path, find_string, replace_string)


Here is the link for the script:

Find and replace text in folder files recursively.

Here’s an explanation of a desktop setup for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.

I instantly thought the banner photo of this blog looked liked New Zealand.  New Zealand flora and fauna have a unique vibe.  Easy setup.    Noted the user of Zend Studio in this post.  I’ve been avoiding PHP lately with a preference for Python.  The Python syntax is nicer than PHP.  I like Komodo Edit and Vim but Zend Studio sounds interesting.

Here is the perfect ubuntu 8.10 desktop setup.

4 more guides:

• Manual Partition
• Visual Guide
• Complete Guide