On my epic quest to go and get a pint at the anchor (some reviews here, also see picture in last post) I went for another paddle near Woodseaves. Paddled all the way there and got there, hurrah people in the garden all enjoying a beer / cider and got to the door just as they had closed 🙁
So then had to paddle all the way back and then on to Nordbury Junction which was open but was not that special 🙁
Went out again yesterday for a paddle 🙂
A close up:
Sadly this was closed when we went but should be open at the weekend 🙂
I am just experimenting with Drivel, an gnome online/offline blog editor for Linux 🙂
If all goes well this should appear online! 🙂
edit: this should test the updates….
Just a quicky, to get identi.ca working with pidgin:
1. Enter your gmail address in identi.ca
2. In pidgin add update@identi.ca as a buddy
3. You will get an authorise request (or 4 🙂 ) just authorise the first one and give it a sane name like Identi.ca
4. Try sending it an IM, this will probably fail with a message :
Identi.ca: [Identi.ca] Unknown user; go to http://identi.ca/settings/im to add your address to your account
5. Look at what username your message went from in my case it was foo@gmail.com/Home
6. Pop back into the Identi.ca web page for IM settings and change your IM name to what ever it sent it as
7. You will get a message from Identi.ca saying basically click on this link to confirm your jabber id.
8. Click on it.
Done 🙂
‘ello again, after some head scratching and beer drinking and lots of trial and mainly error I have now worked out how to get my Freerunner to connect to my WPA network at home 🙂
This is a very rough guide and there is probably a much better way to do it 🙂 The better way is waiting until August for the ASU to be released with a decent tool for doing this automatically 🙂
All I know is that it is working here :)Â Oh you will want to do this all over ssh btw 🙂
Step 1: vi /etc/network/interfaces and make the wireless section look like with the obvious bits modified:
# Wireless interfaces
iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless_mode managed
wireless_essid **********PUT YOUR ROUTER'S ESSID HERE**************
wpa-driver wext
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Step 2: run wpa_passphrase followed by your essid so in my case:
wpa_passphrase 100acre
It will then ask you for your WPA key
It will return a block of code all we want from this is the line beginning psk= so copy that and paste it somewhere safe.
Step 3: edit your wpa_supplicant config file :
vi /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
and make it look like:
# File: /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
ssid="****PUT YOUR ROUTER'S ESSID HERE INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk=******put the output of wpa_passphrase here but no quotation marks*******
}
Step 4. Edit sysconfig for wpa_supplicant :
vi /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant
and make it look like:
# File: /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant
INTERFACES="-ieth0"
DRIVERS="-Dwext"
Step 5: There is no step 5
Step 6: ifup eth0
The first DNS request I made took aaaaages but eventually came back then after that it has been snappy 🙂
Have fun 🙂
Any corrections / ideas let me know 🙂 I know this is not perfect but it did get me online 🙂
Yep, I am going on tour 🙂
The plan is to jump on the ferry with the mighty “paw of doom” (mx5) some equipment (more to follow) and a map 🙂
Then come back about 10 days later 🙂
More to follow 🙂
Discovered in the kitchen, this is number two, number one got squished after it bit/stung.
It has two wings, they are translucent with a slight smoky band across them.
Edit : Ok seriously impressed, posted it on : http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums/insects/23791-wasp-ant-bug-help-please.html
Within 3 mins one of the members has possibly identified it as a spider hunting wasp, this was one of the possibilities for the one that got squished last night, googling for the specific variety suggested show pictures which look a bit like it, if it is one then I still suspect it is a juvenile and not fully grown, hence why it is walking everywhere and not flying around the glass 🙂
A while a go I needed to add a whole raft of users (about 400 or so 🙂 ) to our work RT system. Doing this manually had little appeal so I was looking for a scriptable way of doing it.
I found a script on the wiki ( wiki.bestpractical.com ) but it only supported populating RT from /etc/passwd entires. So close and yet… so with a pointer or two from Bunty, my handy online Perl guru friend 🙂 I managed to use the existing script and bodge it to allow command line arguements 🙂
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# rtadduser: add a local user to RT
# David Maze
# $Id$
# Poorly modified by Tig to accept commandline arguments
# Known issues, will silently fail if a user already exists
BEGIN{
push @INC,"/usr/share/request-tracker3.6/lib/";
}
use lib "/usr/uns/lib";
use strict;
use English;
use RT::Interface::CLI qw(CleanEnv);
use RT::User;
use Getopt::Long;
my ($user, $passwd, $email);
GetOptions (
"user=s" => \$user,
"email=s" => \$email,
"passwd=s" => \$passwd
);
CleanEnv();
RT::LoadConfig();
RT::Init();
print("Creating user with the following variables\n");
print("user : $user\n");
print("e-mail : $email\n");
print("password : $passwd\n");
my $UserObj = new RT::User(RT::SystemUser);
$UserObj->Create(Name => $user,
EmailAddress => "$email",
Privileged => 1,
Password => $passwd
);
print("If there was no error it possibly worked!\n");
To use this you will need Getopt::Long installed, usage is :
perl rtadduser -user=username -email=user@foo.com -passwd=secretpassword
Oh and you will need to poke line 10 (the one with the path to RT.pm) for your distro.
I will put this onto the wiki soon, just needed to dump it somewhere indexable before I forget about it 🙂
Right going to have another crack at putting stuff on here as I come across it.
TBH I only planned on this as just a dump for problems I come across that was indexed by search engines but I was busy with stuff and stopped putting stuff up.
Actually it was the fact that someone posted a comment on what I had thrown up last year had helped him has made me decide to try and get back into this 🙂
