David's Mumblings
Useful vi feature :b and auto-complete it (with tab) to the buffer with the appropriate file name. For the longest time, I'd been using :buffers (which I'd mapped to \b) to get a numbered list of buffers, and then :b It makes me wonder how many other neat tricks vi has hidden away that I will eventually learn (or not). Probably very, very many... ^ TOP Importance of database indexingBad Tech DayAnd if that wasn't enough to ruin my day -- it took me roughly 6 hours to figure out what was happening and try to get files off: I needed those files to get my work done -- I needed to upgrade my file server, and of course that went wrong too. My file server uses two two-disk RAID arrays. One of them decided to drop a disk, for reasons unknown to me. So that took me another hour or two to fix. On the bright side at least I learned more about how the Linux RAID tools work. Harrumph! In all, I wasted about 8 hours on stupid issues that were completely unrelated to what I actually had to do. Sigh. ^ TOP Don't shout at your diskDVDs not recognized by DVD driveAfter poking around on various support sites, most of which were useless to me (as they catered to people trying to break the copy protection -- this is an original darnit!!), I decided to see if the manufacturer (NEC) had released new drivers. Turns out that although they hadn't released any new drivers, they had released new firmware for my drive model (NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A). After installing it, the disk was detected -- finally. Not sure what the problem was exactly, but at least it's fixed now. Sigh. Nice way to waste 40 minutes. :-/ ^ TOP Amazon recommendations gone wrongWe've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Star Wars: Empire at War or other games in the Strategy > Fantasy category have also purchased Paws & Claws: Pampered Pets. Uh... seriously? I'm not sure how they're matching Star Wars, strategy and medieval fantasy with "Paws & Claws"... (The game in question involves bring your virtual pets to a virtual spa and dressing them up in jewelry and whatnot.) I wasn't sure if I should classify this as "Computers and Tech" or "Humor"... ^ TOP Getting 'trash' to work on NFS mountsI have my media files -- photos, music, etc. -- on a file server so that Aurelie and I can both access everything. I previously had the share mounted as a normal NFS mount in fstab, like so: basilisk:/shared /shared nfs rw 0 0. Pretty simple: just load the network drive on basilisk/shared onto local directory /shared. It worked for almost all intents and purposes. I discovered though that I could only permanently delete files: I couldn't send them to Gnome's trash. It got pretty annoying after a while because I like to have an 'undo' easily available via the trash, and it also confused the heck out of a lot of programs that really want to send files to the trash instead of deleting them directly. Read More → ^ TOP Fun with SupportSupport: "You need to update to the new Stanford Desktop Tools version in order to not get the message about Kerberos 4 credentials." Me: "Uhh. I don't have Kerberos 4. I don't have an old version of the SDT; I run Linux. I only have Kerberos 5." Support: "Oh. Then, in that case, you need to use the new version of SDT if you are on Windows or Mac." Me: "I am on Linux. Those tools do not exist on Linux. It is impossible for me to have an old version of tools that don't exist." Support: "Oh, well Linux isn't compatible, so you need to upgrade the tools." Me (having realized that resistance is futile and that no progress will be made): "Uh. Ok. I'll go do that then." ^ TOP Fun with SecurityYou would think that there would be a better way of handling this situation than giving the complete identity of one person to another... ^ TOP Cryptic Error MessagesMessage from syslogd@bramble06 at Tue Dec 4 05:03:54 2007 ... bramble06 kernel: [43308.265745] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason a0. Message from syslogd@bramble06 at Tue Dec 4 05:03:54 2007 ... bramble06 kernel: [43308.327237] You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI bus. Message from syslogd@bramble06 at Tue Dec 4 05:03:54 2007 ... bramble06 kernel: [43308.401250] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue Ooookkkk... thanks, kernel! Values of beta giving rise to dom and all that. I wonder if the machine is about to blow up or something. ^ TOP |
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