Posts by scottk:
those 15 minutes
It might be that my 15 minutes of fame are now up. My mug showed up in the recent Mashable article on Gowalla’s port to webOS. I’ve been using Gowalla for awhile now even though it’s been pretty gimped on my Droid until the last few months, I did amazingly manage to score a iTunes card in a recent promotion. The interface for Gowalla and icons in the app are beautiful, they are the spit and polish that make the app really stand out. As a user my wife has signed up to and has push notifications for me, so she can get a message and know where I”m eating lunch and if I’m stopping for gas on the way home. I’m still on the fence as to whether that’s cool or creepy. In any matter Gowalla is and awesome app with a very nice mobile web interface and adds a little fun to recording your travels.
Microsoft Courier, the device I’m looking for
I’ve been looking at the details of the Microsoft Courier and it looks like the digital pad device that I’ve been looking for. Up until now the Dell Mini5 has probably been the closest to my dream device, what it represents it a larger android phone. The device I’ve been looking for is something that […]
Date stamps in cron
Dropping date stamps into output files of cron: 0 1 * * * /usr/bin/nightlythingthatruns.sh > nightlythingthatruns-`date +\%m\%d\%y`.log
Determining Devices in Solaris
To determine PCI devices at the Solaris 10 command line: prtconf -pv In my case I was looking for my nic so “model: ‘Ethernet controller’” is what I was looking for pull the vendor-id and the device-id and you should be able to find what the hardware is at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/
Virtual Box Disk Clone SLES10
So I wanted to create a copy of a Virtual Box SLES10 .vdi in Ubuntu, it’s not as easy as just copying the file. On your host: VBoxManage clonehd Original.vdi NewCopy.vdi Create a new machine and point to this new image. In the virtual machine: When you boot it’s going to drop you to a […]
Android Apps
Apps I’m using on Android Barcode Scanner Better Terminal ConnectBot Dolphin Browser FTPServer FileDroid Pro Google Voice Open Home Pandora ShopSavvy Task Switcher TasKiller Twidroid Vincent!
Google ChromeOS – What’s up with that
There’s been a lot of speculation about Google ChromeOS and what it’s target is. Many originally thought it was set out to be the Windows killer and have taken that assumption back. The deliberate disabling of the use of hard disk drives in favor of SSD or flash drives makes this very clear it’s going […]
Could not read tty from store
xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory I see this message a bit more frequently then I would like bopping around from server to server. Generally the problem is that xenconsoled is not running. The fix: /usr/sbin/xenconsoled
ubuntu snmp spam
with the default settings in ubuntu server /var/log/daemon can fill up pretty quick with SNMP spam like this: Oct 18 07:01:48 Build01 snmpd[2245]: Connection from UDP: [monitor01]:47674 Oct 18 07:01:48 Build01 last message repeated 19 times every time a connection is made to snmp the default is to log a message and this is way […]
MySQL AppArmor
So I was getting these messages “mysqldump: Got error: 1: Can’t create/write to file ‘/db_backups/mysql/table.txt’ (Errcode: 13) when executing ‘SELECT INTO OUTFILE’” What I’ve come to find is that on a default install of ubuntu APPARMOR will block mysql from writing to any directory other than a few key ones needed by the app. Edit […]