many a slip ‘twixt mind and lip…
So some of the people I know who read this already know… but it looks like I’ll be moving the family over to Silicon Valley in the next couple of months.
I’ve accepted a position at Google HQ in Mountain View (huzzah!) doing Mac/Linux sysadmin stuff, which means several things…
We’re finally getting married tomorrow, as we’ll [...]
So I was getting annoyed that I couldn't claim my weblog via Technorati without faking it, as blojsom requires a trailing slash at the end of the URL to go to the correct blog, and Technorati strips the slash from your url when you submit it.
Googling around brought up an entry by andwest talking about [...]
We mustn't have tested this thoroughly enough when we were forced into rapidly deploying 10.4 on our labs of new iMac G5s, but we started having major problems with DropBoxes on our 10.3.9 AFP servers.
Network users logging in on a 10.4.x client were unable to write files to DropBoxes, although when using a 10.3.x client, [...]
So we've been investigating a new CMS for the COFA website, and we've settled upon OpenCMS, which is quite excellent so far, especially considering the fact that it's open source and free.
The only problem is that we needed LDAP authentication which isn't a part of the distribution.
Ah, but there is a commerical LDAP plugin available [...]
There are a bunch of annoying bugs to do with Office versions earlier than 2004 if you have network home directories.
Actually, the bugs will hit you even if you have your home directory on a different local partition to the one that Office is running from.
This simple script gives you a workaround.
cd /Volumes/Homes/staff
for user in [...]
So another thing people seemed keen on is my system for setting up appropriate WebDAV realms for iCal publishing automatically for personal web pages on Mac OS X Server. This kind of follows on from the previous entry, but you could easily put the two scripts together.
It assumes:
~/Sites for personal web pages.
The [...]
More requests from X-World…
We use ~/Sites for personal web pages. I don't really like the way that by default other users can browse this folder via AFP, and you can't fix this by modifying the User Template folder, so I run this script every night on all network home directories.
This same script also makes sure [...]
A few people at X-World seemed interested in this simple one-liner, which will recursively unlock files from the command line.
find /Volumes/Transit -flags +uchg -print0 | xargs -0 chflags nouchg
The command above would look at the path /Volumes/Transit, recursively find any locked files, and unlock them. The '-print0' and '-0' bits will deal with any files [...]
So I've been getting a lot of emails asking for RapidMetaBlog to support other blogging APIs, and so I'm thinking about doing a v2.0 that supports blog servers that don't do the MetaWeblog API. If you have any other suggestions for features or interface, feel free to leave some comments.
Been nice to see a bunch [...]
The chicken was ok, but the salad needed some work.
not too bad though.