Posts by scottk:
Time to learn C
I’ve been messing around with Gabriel’s DS which now has a MaxMedia player for it. I found a couple of APIs out there to write code for the DS which I can load up and play using that card. So the time has come to learn some C in order to do what I want. It’s a painful process going from perl to a lower level languge and having to take into account all the things that “just work” in perl. It is fun though and I have a project where I immediately see my success or failures, which I think helps the most. Once I have a better working demo I’ll post some screen shots of what I’ve got going.
Caffeine Graph
Stop th noise
Running Ubuntu in a VMWare session I was getting my annoying system beeps. In order to kill this I edited /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and added ‘blacklist pcspkr’. Now I have a silent server and don’t drive everyone completely bonkers with beeps.
Module::Starter and make dist
Earlier when I’d updated Fedora to Core 5 and now that I’ve gone to 6.10 in Ubuntu I ran into some problems building modules. Module::Starter would start them off just fine and I could “perl Makefile.pl”, “make”, “make test” but when I went to “make dist” there would be an error message saying: -e: META.yml […]
getting Apache2::Request enabled in Ubuntu
Installing the libapreq2 module alone isn’t enough to get Apache2::Request running. Additionally you will need to go to the /etc/apache2/mod-enabled direcorty and sym link in the module to be loaded from /etc/apache2/mods-available cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled ln -s ../mods-available/apreq.load apreq.load /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Ubuntu on Xen – locale
Just got a dev box setup on a xen’d version of ubuntu and was getting the following errors when trying to run perl: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = “en_US.UTF-8” are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling […]
Ubuntu and ssh keys
Ran across a small thing in Ubuntu. Normally when host changed on me for my ssh connection I get the big “HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED” and the “man-in-the-middle attack” message. Previously I’d just went in and edited ~/.ssh/known_hosts file (under various Redhat flavors) and removed the offending host by searching for it’s name. At that […]
Give it a try
Going to try out WordPress as a try. The php-nuke stuff I was getting for the site seemed a bit much and I neve really liked the idea of being one release behind. Another year another CMS to learn.
The first three
So let’s see now I’ve been a linux user for the better part of six years now. I know that doesn’t put my anywhere near the top in those pissing contest of “I’ve been using linux since..”, but it does mean I’ve got enough familiarity with it that I can at least point out a […]