http://benbernier.com random blog about whatever i choose Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:40:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en so after an architecture change of a client's server's pc during a disaster recovery middle of business day, i was forced to learn a lot about migrating windows xp install to and from intel and amd architectures. i found the repair to be sufficient moving from amd to intel, but left ... http://benbernier.com/?p=179 so my virtual machine server went down in my office the other day, and the auto startup for a specific machine failed because there was a lock file present from before the power failure (time to replace my ups) it was easy enough to fix by removing the folder located at: /var/lib/vmware/Virtual\ ... http://benbernier.com/?p=177 after adding a  usb drive to fstab i reloaded it and remounted when needed using the following command: # mount - a -o remount http://benbernier.com/?p=175 [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption=""][/caption] http://benbernier.com/?p=173 how to upack all tarball gunzips .tar.gz in a given directory at a time ls *.tar.gz | xargs -t -I {} tar -zxvf  {} *note: after the -t it is a -I as in -(capital)i substitute your flavors at -zxvf and adjust file list at the ls command before ... http://benbernier.com/?p=171 i screwed up my slackware install on my laptop, did a reinstall, realized i installed 32-bit and decided to roll with it. everything i have gone to install out of the official tree has needed some patching due to the new kernel. apparently the new kernel (2.6.33) no longer generates a ... http://benbernier.com/?p=168 find /path/to/files/* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \; where +5=older than 5 days http://benbernier.com/?p=166 this code is one night old. more to come from it but it's not much now: #include <LiquidCrystal.h> // initialize the library with the numbers of the interface pins LiquidCrystal lcd(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7); /* brb 20091121 control 2 x10 devices (4 &2) via momentary switches on pins 10 and 12. x10 interface on pins ... http://benbernier.com/?p=164 had to get a new usb adapter that was capable of inject and monitor modes. took a chance with a netgear usb wg111 at best buy, it happened to be ralink based (wg111v3). then i installed the aircrack-ng suite and began testing my network with the commands below scan for available ... http://benbernier.com/?p=162 http://www.hoaxcall.com/flatrate_103_a.html my phone number was even listed as having been called in the last 21 days and would not let me recall it. i called our office and that prank call was definitely it. the voice was the same and the interactions possible are the same.  all thats left now is finding ... http://benbernier.com/?p=160 so i got a call from an unknown number today. I answered it, which is completely contradictory to my instinct. There was an attractive sounding woman who had a very familiar voice who said "Hi" and that I had to guess who it was. I asked them to please not ... http://benbernier.com/?p=158 /* motion detection code for parallax module from radio shack **20091015 brb** basic motion/infrared detection software **20091015 brb** add similtaneous green led blinks during motion poll parts: 3 leds (2 green, 1 red) 1 parallax PIR sensor on detection of any motion, binary signal on digital pin 8 changes, which causes led on digital pin 5 to light while motion is ... http://benbernier.com/?p=155 # slackpkg update # slackpkg install jdk # cd /usr/local/src # wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/source/apache-ant-1.6.5-src.tar.gz # tar zxvf apache-ant-1.6.5-src.tar.gz # cd apache-ant-1.6.5 #./build.sh # cd .. # wget http://apache.siamwebhosting.com/xmlgraphics/fop/source/fop-0.95-src.tar.gz # tar zxvf fop-0.95-src.tar.gz # cd fop-0.95 # /usr/local/src/apache-ant-1.6.5/dist/bin/ant now you have a 64 bit fop...or you can download it here: drunkensailor.org/software/fop-0.95-slackware64.tar.gz i have my ant available here: drunkensailor.org/software/ant-1.6.5-slackware64.tar.gz *both of these are just meant to be unpacked where ... http://benbernier.com/?p=148 add these lines to your hosts file. just rebuilt my laptop to 64bit and want to document these things before they disappear into the abyss of knowledge i once had. used in combination with adblockplus i get almost no ads on hulu 127.0.0.1       www.google-analytics.com google-analytics.com ssl.google-analytics.com analytics.google.com googleanalytics.com 127.0.0.1       flash.quantserve.com quantserve.com ads.hulu.com ... http://benbernier.com/?p=146 currently its at 0.2 and will undergo a complete overhaul to run with the aliens slackware mirror script as its base. its very primitive right now and requires manual checking of the changlog to know if it should be run. it also assumes a few directory paths that are documented ... http://benbernier.com/?p=141 i wanted to use this: (select * from Seasons where id=5) union (select * from Seasons where id<>5 order by id desc); but i had to use this: SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM Seasons WHERE id=5 ORDER BY id DESC) AS t1 UNION SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM Seasons WHERE id<>5 ORDER BY id desc) AS t2 http://benbernier.com/?p=137 step one: ln -s /dev/null /thetoilet step two: klogd > /thetoilet  2>&1 this is how you can clog the toilet with 2s and 1s http://benbernier.com/?p=132 a server told me this joke today: He:     Do you like Kipling? She:    Oh, you naughty boy, I don't know!  I've never kippled! http://benbernier.com/?p=130 somehow made my way here after fighting with his three versions of documentation for the same AMAZING product incredibly amusing: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein incredibly surprising: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2812 http://benbernier.com/?p=128 this is designed to delete files by date from the current directory....it was googles fault for providing "source" in a .deb with relative paths without being clear. plus it was my fault for not doing a test extract prior to doing a real one....pretty irrelevant but was needed to tidy ... http://benbernier.com/?p=124