Long-term performance analysis of Intel Mainstream SSDs has a detailed analysis of SSD fragmentation and it’s effect on performance

Very useful Windows desktop icon organiser by Stardock. Review from Lifehacker.

nic@www:/export/apps/weberp$ echo "<?php print sha1('password') . \"\n\";?>" | php;
5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8

From the mysql command line:

UPDATE www_users SET password = '5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8' WHERE userid = 'nlee';

Follw up on my previous radiant script.

radiant  --database mysql test
# edit config/database.yml
rake production db:bootstrap
radiant --database mysql test
rake production db:bootstrap
git clone git://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension.git vendor/extensions/reorder
cd vendor/plugins/reorder/
git reset --hard 22ed6cdbb5bd8a3a98badf661f5b0c3bae5f29b0
rake production radiant:extensions:reorder:migrate
rake production radiant:extensions:reorder:update
git clone git://github.com/kbingman/paperclipped.git vendor/extensions/paperclipped
rake production db:migrate:extensions
rake production radiant:extensions:paperclipped:update
git clone git://github.com/MrGossett/radiant_page_meta_extension.git vendor/extensions/page_meta
rake production db:migrate:extensions
# http://github.com/radiant/radiant-reorder-extension/tree/master
# http://www.nabble.com/PageAttachments-migration-looking-for-Admin::PagesController-td21080134.html
# http://github.com/kbingman/paperclipped/tree/master
# Needs sudo apt-get install imagemagick librmagick-ruby1.8


According to this thread, if you need to use the linux-image-virtual package on ubuntu then it only supports the “bus logic” scsi controller with ESX.

Need to access the ESX console with the Virtual Infrastructure Client in some remote location where your VPN does not work.  Forward ports 443, 902 and 903 with putty.  Port specifics for ESX can be found on page 179 of the ESX Server Config guide.

In my case I additionally need to forward from a boundary machine:
ssh -L 8443:localhost:443 -L 8902:localhost:902 -L 8903:localhost:903 node2

I was trying a Windows Live game on Steam yesterday and got the above error. After a lot of googling I discovered that I needed to install Game for Windows Live. There is version 1.2 and 2.0. Once this were installed the game run correctly.

I tried several methods last night including Unetbootin, and this is the one that worked best.

• Using Windows to prepare USB install of Ubuntu 8.10
• Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting

Basically copy the ISO on the USB root directory, add vmlinuz and initrd.gz from main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/. Then add syslinux.cfg with:

default vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz

If you have boot problems you might also need to run install-mbr /dev/sda from the mbr package.

I keep smacking into this issue. So a couple notes to myself for future reference.

• Tinydns / DJBDNS on Ubuntu Hardy Heron
• upstart breaks inittab

Before install touch /etc/inittab and afterwards add this to /etc/event.d/svscan:

start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5

stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 6

respawn
exec /usr/bin/svscanboot

A few useful vim indenting links:

• Toggle auto-indenting for code paste
• How to stop auto indenting
• Turn off per-filetype auto indentation
• Getting cool auto-indent in vim

This is the most useful bit when pasting into a vim window.

nnoremap :set invpaste paste?
imap
set pastetoggle=