Waving frog waves for the last time
Sad: The Panamanian golden frog communicates with other frogs by semaphore in the form of gentle hand waves. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7219803.stm What’s is amazing is that they took...
View ArticleDell BIOS updates using Linux
Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/05/37446.aspx … be sure the Universe section is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, then...
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Is always bad. And this is a very sad, graphic picture: http://www.photojournalism.org
View ArticleHow’s Eddie?
Eddie’s fecking dead because he was illegal alien and was scared to go to hospital: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/01/31/a_toast_to_an_irishman/ This just feckin’ sucks: Eddie died in...
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Pollution in the World’s Oceans
Amazing article about the extent of pollution in the world’s oceans: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean30jul30,0,6670018,full.story The fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy...
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Links
Different things that caught by eye today. The worst foods to eat in America (via Boing-boing): http://www.menshealth.com/20worst The worst being fries with cheese and ranch dressing from a nation...
View Articledjango.db.utils.DataError: invalid value for parameter “TimeZone”
If your Django Apps throws this error: cursor.execute(self.ops.set_time_zone_sql(), [tz]) django.db.utils.DataError: invalid value for parameter "TimeZone": "America/New_York" The problem is that...
View ArticleMoving a Directory from One Git Repo to Another (with history)
git log --pretty=email --patch-with-stat --reverse --full-index --binary directory_name > /tmp/directory_name_patch; git init directory_name; cd directory_name; git am < /tmp/directory_name_patch;
View ArticleLet’s Encrypt Cert & Nginx (Using a Web Proxy) on Centos 6.x
This was done on Centos 6 where prebuilt ‘certbot’ packages are not available. On Centos 7, install ‘certbot’ from the EPEL repo. cd ~root; mkdir certbot; wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto; chmod...
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Migrate Section of a Git Repo to a new Git Repo
I inherited a git repo that has multiple projects in it. It’s easier to manage the code and dependencies if each of these projects are in their own git repo. The process is pretty simple: Export the...
View ArticleMigrate Django 1.4 to 1.11
I thought these rough notes might be useful to anyone migrating from Django 1.4 (and possibly 1.3) to Django 1.11. Moving from South to Django Migrations 1. Update your settings files: Remove ‘south’...
View ArticleCentos 7: qt5 packages missing when installing synergy-1.9.1
The fix is to installed qt5-qtbase & qt5-qtbase-gui: yum install qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-gui The specific warnings are:# rpm -i synergy-1.9.1-322.stable.2a0225c1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm error: Failed...
View ArticleEdx on Debian Stretch
After you clone the Edx repo there you will find a (undocumented) list of packages required to install on Ubuntu: requirements/system/ubuntu/apt-packages.txt These packages and others are required for...
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VAST Storage API & JQ
Hiking Glendalough Park in Ireland Vast builds some neat storage systems that provide management functionality via a REST API. jq is a command-line JSON processor, or as the author describes it “sed...
View ArticleInstall portal_client on Linux
A user asked for help installing Portal Client. Which is a: Python-based client for downloading data files hosted by the an instance of the portal software developed by the GDC and further modified by...
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Debian: Yarn fails to run.
Try setting the following environmental variable: export NODE_PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:/usr/share/nodejs Yarn fails to run and shows a stacktrace like the following? Set the NODE_PATH. Error: Cannot find...
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