just another geek in chicago tag:www.mantic.org,2005:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305 Textpattern 2013-03-25T04:55:40Z alleycat alleycat@mantic.org http://www.mantic.org/tp/ alleycat 2006-04-23T14:02:00Z 2006-04-23T14:08:23Z tag:www.mantic.org,2006-04-23:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/07bd62e11f9949e6d06b8f9bb5edab18 <p>It’s very handy, and simple enough to get going, tho this may save a little reading on your part. Cliff’s Notes:</p> <ul> <li>you have to allow hosts to connect in gkrellmd.conf</li> <li>you have to open a port in your firewall</li> </ul> <p>Take a peek here: <a href="http://mantic.org/wiki/Gkrellm-server">Gkrellm-server</a></p> alleycat 2006-04-11T18:12:00Z 2006-04-11T18:13:31Z tag:www.mantic.org,2006-04-11:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/2e86b7bfd143eb0b3da4f343cf31c6f9 <p>Turns out there are a couple things you have to do to make it fly. No doubt it’s a temporary situation.</p> <p>Take a peek here: <a href="http://www.mantic.org/wiki/Freenx_tips">Freenx tips</a></p> alleycat 2006-01-06T05:47:00Z 2006-01-06T06:13:27Z tag:www.mantic.org,2006-01-05:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/b27985779626a7d8d99e800f793fd4e0 <p>...a green and yellow basket. How embarrassing is this? I just got the color scheme on the <a href="http://basket.kde.org/">website</a> as I was typing that… lol.</p> <p>Anyway, I just discovered this charming little app after getting a mailing about it on kde-announce. I’ve only used it a bit, and I’m sure i don’t know everything it’ll do, but it’s attractive in its flexible simplicity. But, that said, one can have only so many tabs, and while heirarchies suffer from scalability issues as well, v0.6.0Alpha1 has a tree, its baskets can contain baskets, and it has other nice features as well. </p> <p>Being lazy, naturally i searched around for an rpm. No joy. Soooo… I made one on my fc4 box. Didn’t have to modify anything but the basket.spec file – how sweet is that? Here it is, if anybody wants it:</p> <p>RPM: <a href="http://www.mantic.org/tp/file_download/4">basket-0.6.0Alpha1-mantic0.i386.rpm</a></p> <p>SRPM: <a href="http://www.mantic.org/tp/file_download/3">basket-0.6.0Alpha1-mantic0.src.rpm</a></p> <p>Sloppy, nasty, quick and dirty SPEC: <a href="http://www.mantic.org/tp/file_download/5">basket.spec</a></p> <p><a href="http://basket.kde.org/downloads/?file=basket-0.6.0-Alpha1">Original source tar.gz</a> </p> alleycat 2005-12-27T03:49:00Z 2006-01-02T16:48:45Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-12-26:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/48bc02dd2cbf4368c6796d56eeee2a15 <p>I spent part of the weekend implementing BackupPC at a client. I&amp;#8217;ve had it running on my network at home on a Suse 9.3 server for some time now, but alas, I didn’t write that up. It’s similar on Suse, though some of the paths and other details differ. This time around, I figured I’d make <a href="http://www.mantic.org/wiki/BackupPC_-_Network_backup_to_disk">some notes on it in the wiki</a>. </p> <p>This describes an install on CentOS 4 – Fedora would be quite similar, except I’d use reiserfs instead of ext3. So far I have it backing up a few linux servers and a desktop, and a couple AIX 5.2 boxes, and there are notes in the wiki on installing the server, getting it functional by backing itself up, and then adding linux clients. The AIX clients are quite similar, but I haven’t annotated the differences between them and linux yet. </p> <p>The notes were made as I was doing it, so they’re probably not as organized as one would like, but it’s there down to a fair amount of detail and resulted in a functional server and half dozen clients, so it’s a start.</p> <p>I really like BackupPC a lot – it solves problems many other backup systems I’ve tried don’t, so I’d like to really expand this bit of the wiki. I’ll be adding notes backups of Windows clients and a shared hosting account, and anything else more general that comes to mind along the way.</p> <p>Anyway, I hope it helps someone out.</p> alleycat 2005-12-08T05:18:00Z 2006-11-06T20:15:34Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-12-07:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/fc9dc548e7c5594644222a20389ff9e3 <p><BLOCKQUOTE>“The McDonald’s® regular hamburger is the one that got it all started in 1948. It’s as basic as can be…yet the ones they serve today don’t even taste CLOSE! Make em exactly as I instruct, and you can enjoy that long-lost flavor once again.<br /> <br></p> (In the mid 80’s, McDonald’s® began cooking both sides of the meat at the same time, This was to cut cooking time in half. But it also forever changed the flavor of the original hamburgers—-ALL of them!)”<br /> </BLOCKQUOTE> <p>I always <strong>thought</strong> so – that it wasn’t just my imagination or just me growing up and my tastes changing. I used to love mickey-d’s burgers when i was a kid, and there came a point when they just weren’t the same – and it seemed pretty sudden to me. I wasn’t eating there much at the time, so I suspect it took me longer to notice than to happen.</p> <p>I gotta try this soon – see if it’s true. </p> <p><a href="http://www.stuffucanuse.com/Macdonald%20recipies.htm">McDonald’s Hamburger Secret Recipes</a></p> alleycat 2005-12-02T03:44:32Z 2005-12-02T03:44:32Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-12-01:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/2873f04421bd247c50a9702dc1b167ab <p>Oracle is offering a free version of their dbms as Oracle Express. Here&amp;#8217;s the <a href="http://www.mantic.org/wiki/Oracle_Express">links and other stuff on the wiki</a>.</p> alleycat 2005-12-02T02:53:00Z 2005-12-04T07:35:54Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-12-01:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/7f48d198677b2343987c1d94e6d6ed20 <p>Added a page to the multimedia section of the wiki on installing <a href="http://jinzora.org/">Jinzora</a> on Fedora Core 4 – not that it’s hard or anything. Jinzora’s a pretty sweet and featureful web based music jukebox that can either stream the playlist back to the desktop you’re accessing it from or run in “jukebox” mode, where you can remotely control the server’s sound card (presumably connected to a stero) from a web insterface on your desktop – or it can be installed to do both and you get to choose where to route the tunes from the web page.</p> <p>As of now, the page is sufficient for a streaming install &amp;#8211; the simpler and more common case. I have a start and some reference links on the jukebox install portion – which is pretty much server stuff outside of <a href="http://jinzora.org/">Jinzora</a> so none of the work in the previous section is wasted.</p> <p>Check it out in the wiki <a href="http://www.mantic.org/wiki/Installing_Jinzora_-_A_web_based_music_jukebox">here</a></p> alleycat 2005-11-06T12:56:00Z 2005-11-07T03:31:00Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-11-06:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/f350f91b3a02bff4953bb48aca7f1710 <p>They got me. </p> <p>So I just mirrored the old site to a static image and that’s what you get with the old site link now, because apparently the siteframe cms i was using for it had insecure php code. Oops. </p> <p>Naturally, certain links like login and search won’t work anymore. That’s ok – i never intended to update that site ever again. I’m only leaving it up ‘cause apparently some people still visit parts of it, and I sure ain’t gonna take the trouble of moving it into the new setup. BTW, one trick to doing that for purposes of publishing it thru a server is to use a command line like <strong>wget -k -p -E -r -l0 [URL]</strong>. </p> <p>It was a kind of interesting learning experience. The attack was fairly simple, yet they managed to do a bit with it. Some people just suck, I guess.</p> alleycat 2005-10-28T06:50:00Z 2005-10-29T03:17:36Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-10-27:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/8d358e3fe1dbfe8a873cee1de91c09f4 <p>I would have voted for McCain in a heartbeat. As it is, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/opinion/26wed2.html?ex=1287979200&amp;#38;en=0e060f96c09bb586&amp;#38;ei=5088&amp;#38;partner=rssnyt&amp;#38;emc=rss">things go from bad to wierd.</a> </p> alleycat 2005-10-28T00:22:00Z 2005-10-28T08:11:15Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-10-27:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/4c17d235a1af3a957f88cb6ae0eb587b <p>I could see getting to like it. This is going to the textpattern here from flock’s blogging tool. I wonder if it’ll work…Hey! It does! So it’s got a builtin blog tool sopporting several protocols, and you can integrate your favorites with del.icio.us (or not) and organize them into collections with an instantly switchable bookmark bar. I don’t know if I’d call it revolutionary just yet, but it’s kind of nice. </p> <p>Firefox is more mature, but given flock’s youth, that’s hardly a criticism. Maybe I need to think about making some fedora and centos rpms.</p> alleycat 2005-10-25T07:35:00Z 2005-10-28T06:51:54Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-10-25:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/70ce8926ab938135efd944fb4811abc9 <p>“It is the final proof of God’s omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.” – Peter De Vries</p> alleycat 2005-10-10T18:31:00Z 2005-10-28T06:09:47Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-10-10:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/ca5e8622d7456c9fe7406d1f8f327cca <p>Since I had to do it on another workstation anyway, I documented the steps I took to do it on the wiki at <a href="http://www.mantic.org/wiki/Oracle_instantclient_and_tora_on_fc4">Oracle instantclient and tora on fc4</a>, for what it’s worth. Pretty easy.</p> alleycat 2005-09-30T18:09:00Z 2006-07-28T16:36:02Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-09-30:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/50a76be08a37904600c54708073387fb <p>Some new-ish (and one older) dynaglide pics. Wish I got to ride her more often. She’s 9 years old this summer… happy b-day to her.</p> <div class="rssThumbs"><div class="rssThumbFloat"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/2.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'popupwindow', 'width=420,height=620,resizable'); return false;"><img class="rssThumb" src="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/2t.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><span class="cap"></span> </div> <div class="rssThumbFloat"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/3.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'popupwindow', 'width=620,height=420,resizable'); return false;"><img class="rssThumb" src="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/3t.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><span class="cap"></span> </div> <div class="rssThumbFloat"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/4.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'popupwindow', 'width=420,height=620,resizable'); return false;"><img class="rssThumb" src="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/4t.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><span class="cap"></span> </div> <div class="rssThumbFloat"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/5.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'popupwindow', 'width=620,height=420,resizable'); return false;"><img class="rssThumb" src="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/5t.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><span class="cap"></span> </div> <div class="rssThumbFloat"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/6.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'popupwindow', 'width=420,height=620,resizable'); return false;"><img class="rssThumb" src="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/6t.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><span class="cap"></span> </div> <div class="rssThumbFloat"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/12.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'popupwindow', 'width=420,height=620,resizable'); return false;"><img class="rssThumb" src="http://www.mantic.org/tp/images/12t.jpg" alt="" title="" /></a><span class="cap"></span> </div> <br style="clear: both;" /></div> alleycat 2005-09-30T05:51:00Z 2005-10-31T03:39:35Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-09-29:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/1e1721a362acbcdeb28235007f7e819e <p>...I’m liking it, and I’m starting to get the feel of it. It’s still a p.i.t.d., but all cms’s are. But so far tp doesn’t make me feel boxed in, or force workarounds ‘cause i want to do something that isn’t in its structural assumptions. That seems to be my story with every cms I’ve ever tried.</p> <p>Which is not to say i don’t have niggles. </p> alleycat 2005-09-26T05:19:00Z 2005-09-30T07:16:45Z tag:www.mantic.org,2005-09-25:caf545ce5d818c554658761a320a5305/bd61f8fb24293967ffbd8bfbaa87a7a6

<p>Textpattern is a p.i.t.d. – textpattern rocks.</p>