Ancker’s Limited Infinity

Over on my PhotoBlog I had some problems getting the fancy resize/(prev/next) AJAXy thing working. The documentation for the “Reflection” theme doesn’t mention you need this….just PHP5. The JSON support isn’t included by default until PHP5.2.

What you need to get it working on Centos without PHP5.2.

1) yum install php-devel
2) yum install php-pear
3) pear install json
4) add “extension=json.so” to /etc/php.ini
5) service httpd restart
6) You’re done.

I’m sure most of you have seen those new Microsoft ads.
The ones where some lady talks about “Mining the Mountains of Data find the useful nuggets of information”.

I pretty much vomit every time I see it. Maybe that sort of speak works for some people, but I just get annoyed.
The commercial doesn’t even seem to be selling anything. It’s just a bunch of marketing speak for 30 seconds with the Microsoft logo at the end.

Congratulations Microsoft, all you’ve done is annoy me into the ground.

Yes, I admit it.
I judge you on the size and quantity of your desktop icons.
To be clear, the more or bigger they are. The less I think of you.

Across the five computers I use regularly at work and home, I have a total of three icons and they are set to the smallest setting possible.

If you’re like me and like to futz with stuff and end up blowing away your lower panel in KDE, simply log out and remove this file.
It’ll make KDE think you’re a brand new user and restore everything to the defaults.

‘rm ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc’

Since I update my status so much on Facebook I pretty much always forget to update my blog.
I’m going to try to keep this more up to date. I’ll likely post more and more technical stuff and hopefully more photography related posts as well.

So, on Thursday I turned off the last server in my apartment.
The machine known as carnivore was a VALINUX 1220. It was a pretty nice ebay find way back in 2003.
I think I bought it for $300. It’s ran three or four websites for myself and a few friends over the years.

Since carnivore was my gateway I had to replace it with a Linksys BEFSR41 that I had laying in one of my tubs of electronic gear. (I’ll eventually replace this with a more modern VPN router thing to make life/work easier) I had to update the firmware but using MAC cloning I was able to swap it without any incident. It’s going to be weird not having a box I can just SSH into from anywhere and have direct access to my network. I port forward SSH to a machine inside but it still isn’t the same.

The nice thing is that I now only have two large towers running in my home office. They are still loud and way more trouble than they’re worth. I’m thinking about walking down to the Apple Store today and picking up a Mac Mini to replace the aging Windows box. Since I found out TurboTax has an OSX version, I no longer need Windows for anything. I plan to replace my aging Linux box with a Shuttle PC. This reduction of fan noise and heat in that room will be amazing.

Because I’m likely to forget this the next time I upgrade or transition to a new server or something.
This adds the “Image resize” drop down in the Carbon Theme for Gallery2.

edit ~/gallery/themes/carbon/templates/photo.tpl

look for ‘class=”giInfo”}’ On the next line add..

{g->block type=”core.PhotoSizes” class=”giInfo”}

A quick note, so I don’t forget, on how to make InterMapper Remote launch ssh/telnet in iTerm instead of OSX’s Terminal.

Monitor>Helper Apps>Customize

Launcher:
osascript -e ‘tell app “iTerm”‘ -e ‘activate’ -e ‘set myterm to the first terminal’ -e ‘tell myterm’ -e ‘set mysession to (make new session at the end of sessions)’ -e ‘tell mysession’ -e ‘exec command

(leaving the last ‘ off is important)

Edit “Telnet”
Command Line:
${LAUNCHER} “/usr/bin/telnet ${ADDRESS}”‘ -e ‘end tell’ -e ‘end tell’ -e ‘end tell’

Edit “SSH”
Command Line:
${LAUNCHER} “/usr/bin/ssh username@${ADDRESS}”‘ -e ‘end tell’ -e ‘end tell’ -e ‘end tell’

And set your Double-Click preferences to either Telnet or SSH.