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Re: Problems logging in to Snow Leopard domain after install OS X Lion

Tuttle — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:26:06 -0000

Thanks for the help! Here's another hint for those poking around in Lion LDAP;

If you were forcing local home directories by specifying "#/Users/$uid$" for the NFSHomeDirectory, this no longer seems to work with Lion clients authenticating to Snow Leopard Server. However, using the stock "From Server" settings and then creating a Mobile User still works and has the same end effect (of creating a local Home folder).

Re: Simple image rotation with Paperclip and Amazon S3

Cédric Bousmanne — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:35:29 -0000

I used your code but ran into a "Can't convert String into Array" error with rails 3.0.4.

I've made a fork with my update here :

https://gist.github.com/115...

Hope it'll help someone

Cédric

Re: The Giant Automagical ImageMagick and Fonts install script

edo — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:50:35 -0000

Thank you! :)

Worked, finally I was able to install a newer rmagick-gem despite the old ImageMagick of the OS.

Re: The Giant Automagical ImageMagick and Fonts install script

amasses — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:45:29 -0000

Personally I have never had issues with leaving the older versions in place – the executables are overwritten and reinstalling the rmagick gem will use the latest libs – though, I could be wrong :|

Re: The Giant Automagical ImageMagick and Fonts install script

amasses — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:44:53 -0000

Sorry about that - its all fixed up now, I pushed an update to the file sources (no more version issues with missing files) and forgot to fix up the permissions.

Re: The Giant Automagical ImageMagick and Fonts install script

edo — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:05:25 -0000

BTW, the download says something of "access denied".

Re: The Giant Automagical ImageMagick and Fonts install script

edo — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:27 -0000

Nice! :)

What happens if I already have older versions of all this stuff on my system, do I have to uninstall it all first?

Re: The Giant Automagical ImageMagick and Fonts install script

amasses — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:42:19 -0000

Hi Carlos,

Your more then welcome - I'm glad this helped someone else :)

Matthew

Re: The Giant Automagical ImageMagick and Fonts install script

Carlos Alberto Teixeira — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:12:14 -0000

Dear Matthew, greetings from Rio!

Your post is absolutely perfect. 1,000 thanks!!

Cheers.

- c.a.t.

Re: Server Monitor and Local Lights Out Management for XServe

amasses — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:20:15 -0000

Hi Shawn, I'm not sure what is exactly happening here but it seems like its still attributed to a communications problem.

After some brief research I can tell you that the LOM is based on IPMI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... and there is a command line tool which might be helpful for diagnosing your issue (ipmitool). You could also run Wireshark and watching for UDP data on port 623, plus check to make sure your firewall isn't causing any issues (though, as this is handled by its own processor, and not part of the system kernel it shouldn't be affected by this...).

Hope this helps.

Re: Server Monitor and Local Lights Out Management for XServe

Koppenhoefer — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:55:19 -0000

Hello... and thanks for your post!

While our LOM on localhost works fine, we are still getting the CANNOT_LOAD_BUNDLE_ERR that you describe when using Server Monitor remotely. Were you ever able to do that, and did you have to do anything special?

I'm having these troubles on an early2009 Xserve (our other Xserve is early 2008 and works fine) under 10.6.4. Doing "sudo changeip -checkhostname" gives correct answers, doing LOM to localhost on that machines works fine, and yes, we have a unique IP dedicated to the LOM. Do you have any other ideas?

One curious observation that I've made is that when connected as localhost, in Configure Local Machine, it doesn't seem to matter what I put in as a username and password; The one that counts seems to be the local admin user with his password (idem from remote btw).

cheers,
Shawn

Re: Effective Email Marketing

amasses — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:21:37 -0000

Ahhh yeah it seems as though the body of the post disappeared when I migrated between blog engines - surely one day there will be an open 'standard' for blog content which you can interchange between systems?

I'll try to track down the content and get it back in here - sorry - it was actually a post detailing using tools like MailChimp or Campaign builder, providing proper opt in/out options and using nice clean templates - hopefully it isn't lost in the ether..

Re: Effective Email Marketing

andy — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:24:34 -0000

Personally, I'd draft it up, send it to someone else to review, and then, dependent on the number of recipients, yea, I'd probably BCC it.

It feels like your post here got cut short, and you were going to talk about a mailinglistmanager or something but didnt ?

Re: Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby

jkh — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:32:00 -0000

This can be even shorter! There is no need to create your own queue in this example, since you're just firing something async into the background. You can just as easily skip the queue creation and do:

Dispatch::Queue.concurrent.async do ... end around the IO.popen block! :)

Re: Grand Central Dispatch and MacRuby

Matthew Savage — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:32:00 -0000

Thanks for the pointer towards the concurrent.async blocks.

I glanced over that in the apple GCD docs and didn't bother digging into this further, but I'll have to keep that in mind in the future :)

Re: Keeping the day moving on.

silentsno — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:56:00 -0000

I think its just using whatever method you can to get yourself started.

I am the same way all the time and I every time I finally just get started and working, it flows, and I get stuff done.

So doing things the GTD way, or using Pomodoro, or todo lists, or putting them all in a hat and drawing out your next task, is a way to push you to get started. Its the key.

Re: Simple image rotation with Paperclip and Amazon S3

egarcia — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:49:00 -0000

I used your code (which was very useful, thanks!) but noticed that my rotated thumbnails looked "bigger" in some occasions. This happened because the "thumbnailing" happened before the rotation.

In order to fix this, I had to change the order in which the operators are sent to Imagemagick - first rotate, then thumbnail (super).

I've made a fork of your gist here:

http://gist.github.com/238906

I'd send you a pull request, but I don't know how to do those on gists.

Thanks and best regards!

Re: I18n Editor – Editing those pesky YAML files in Rails Apps

Thomas — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:27:00 -0000

The NetBeans YAML editor does also a good job. Maybe you should have a look at it.