Tag: General

I came across a funny quote on Twitter yesterday:

“Anyone who thinks American Idol is a great show should be smacked upside the head with a Wal-Mart.”

Just before the iPhone/iPod Touch 2.0 update, I restored my iPod Touch
after having had it jailbroken for a few months. One of the immediate
things I missed was the SSH client. Then I learned that recently, a few
SSH clients had popped up in the App Store, which pleased me to no end,
especially once I discovered the best one to use.

Thanks to Mr. Cooper, who had already done the research, I downloaded
Touch Term, which is a pretty slick little SSH application. There are
certainly a few things lacking, which is explained in this nice article about all the available
SSH apps, but it certainly gets the job done.

And really, this was about the only reason I still considered
jailbreaking my 2.0 iTouch. Now, however, I don’t think I need to.

Last week there was a lot of buzz online regarding the discovery of a
dead sasquatch.
I’m sure you probably heard about it.

I watched the news conference led by the two guys in northern Georgia
(the state, not the country) who had allegedly discovered the
body while out hiking. After the news conference, I had my doubts.
The ‘expert’ that these men had recruited started blinking really fast
when directly questioned about certain topics, and it led me to believe
he was lying. Then he showed some blurry photos and didn’t offer any
real proof that what they claimed happened actually did. If you have a
dead big foot sitting in your garage, even a yokel from Georgia could
take a decent picture with a digital camera.

Apparently the men who discovered the body sold it to some researchers.
This is where the impetus behind the hoax comes in. Once the
researchers decided to unfreeze it, the truth came out. A
doggone monkey suit!

But on the other hand, don’t you love monkey suits? I remember my
grandmother made me one as a halloween costume when I was about 10.
Actually, it was a gorilla suit, but it was still fun. It was the only
gorilla in the neighborhood who wore sneakers.

Dear IE6
In this heartfelt breakup
letter, author Jin outlines all the reasons that web developers
should drop support of the antiquated browser known as Internet Explorer
6. It is funny. And correct.

DVD Catalyst
As an iPod Touch owner, I found the DVD Catalyst tool to be
invaluable for backing up my DVD’s to watch on my iPod.

The Whappers
I updated The Whappers web
site, and there are some nice pics of us from the recent Grey Eagle show
that someone from the Asheville Citizen Times took.

Linux Geek?
NixCraft is the site for
you, with tons of great tutorials, answers, scripts, admin tips, and
more. Any Unix-based OS is relevant there, from X Server to Ubuntu to
RedHat to Solaris, as well as anything that runs on them. Definitely a
keep for the bookmarks.

The company I work for is seeking a Linux Admin to work with us here in
Asheville, NC. This is a great opportunity to work on some really cool
stuff and gain good experience with the federal government.

Here’s the rundown of skills sought:
Must Haves:
2+ Years Linux Administration Experience (prefer Red Hat Enterprise)
Some experience with compiling code from source.

Must be a US citizen able to obtain a secret security clearance

Installation, configuration and management of the following:
Apache
Tomcat
MySQL

Nice to Have:

VERITAS Netbackup
Qualstar/Quantum Tape backups
EMC SAN / Navisphere
Fiber HBA installation/configuration
Fiber Switching (zoning etc)
Cisco Switches
PIX Firewall

If you are interested, let me know!

Ran into a problem today where users were trying to download Office 2007
documents from a web site, but were prompted to save them as a Zip file.
Turns out the new extensions for Office 2007 documents (docx, xlsx,
pptx, etc) need to be added with a new mime-type for Apache to serve
them up correctly.

It’s a pretty simple fix.

In /etc/mime.types add this:

application/vnd.openxmlformats docx pptx xlsx

Save and restart Apache, then the documents should be handled correctly.