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How did I get here?

How did I get here?

How did I get here?

Motivation Recently we were moving a portion of a site from one domain to another, and since the statistic were not going to have continuity, as far as domain name and paths go, we decided to archive the AWStats information into static files.

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a guide for circumventing the licensing requirements of Teaching Textbooks.

Today my previously-working printer setup, with an Epson WF-3620, simply stopped working, with no error in the local Cups console other than “Filter failed.”

This is the first in what will, hopefully, become a series.

We depart from our normal computer geek world for a foray into the world of construction geekdom.

Several months ago I was setting up a FreeIPA instance for a client, and ran in to a requirement for synchronizing passwords between a legacy system and their new FreeIPA instance.

The information contained in this post was gleaned while working on a project for my current employer New Context Services.

I was fortunate enough get a chance to play around with DreamHost‘s DreamCompute beta.

I was trying to get scanning working yesterday on my HP LaserJet 3390.

I was doing some network reconfiguration on a box recently.

We are having some issues with our LDAP server dying.

I lost my password to my account on a Serendipity blog recently, but still had access to the database.

A while back, I noticed KMail was starting to run really slowly, and was responsible for a few megabytes per second of disk IO (as reported by iotop).

Today I was troubleshooting an issue with Apache and LDAP authentication via the OpenLDAP server.

So, it appears there is no way built in to cPanel to script the creation of a large number of Mailman lists.

I was doing some programming today (no, really?)

Started a comment on this post but it got a little long.

I am using Python to do some data file processing, converting data from a horrendously verbose, repetitive format to a nice, clean, CSV format.

Had the need recently to generate a bunch of thumbnails for some PDFs we had.

Dell sent me another one of their catalogs recently, which included this entry.

Bob (from marketing): I have this great new idea for our product!

I recently installed the Jaunty/KDE3.5 remix.

Today I was trying to figure out how to ssh into one system, and then automatically ssh into another system.

So today I discovered that my first ever contribution to an Open Source project was accepted.

So, my contract with WordStream has ended, and I am now in the ranks of the unemployed.

I had this conversation this morning via a random AOL IM sent to me: (10:09:04) AtypicalCoho: If you respond with an away message containing a phone number, I will laugh… then rickroll you by phone. (10:10:08) Me: I am not available.

[The meat of this post was actually a reply to a UAF (Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks) LUG (Linux User’s Group) mailing-list thread a few months back.

Over on his blog, Raphael Pinson has a post about creating a package with “minimal dependencies.”

Last January, coming home from my Boston trip, I was sitting in Chicago O’Hare aiport, desperately searching for free wifi, when I looked at my kernel log messages.

I recently had the task of building Python Eggs on Windows that had C extensions.

It’s amazing the things that can cause a lump in your throat.

After being out of full-time work for 17 business days, I’m starting up a full time job!

Cilk Arts is very close to releasing their multi-core programming library called Cilk++, and with it, a new license, the Cilk Arts Public License.

Yet another reason I will avoid PHP at all costs.

So, due to lack of projects at my current employer, I might be getting laid off come Wednesday.

As part of yearly compliance, I have to go through some sort of training on sexual harassment.

Passwords are a part of life.

Scott Westfall has a post about defects vs. features.

A band for programmers tired of automata: Rage Against the State Machine Thanks, I’ll be here all year.

The other day, at work, we were working on setting up an automated qurk-and-dirty back up for some files from one Linux box to another.

Original, as far as I know.