Smokes your problems, coughs fresh air.
I was trying to add a Windows 2000 machine to our domain, but I got this message (in Dutch, unfortunately):
De opgegeven referenties zijn strijdig met de bestaande groep referenties
In true Windows fashion, this meant that the existing network-drive mappings should be disconnected first…
With our new Windows 7 machines, we need at least samba 3.3.7. However, our server with Debian stable doesn’t have that in its repository. So, I was forced to install samba with lenny-backports.
I included this line in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
Because backports are disabled by default, I needed to pin all the packages required for samba:
Package: samba Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: smbclient Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: smbfs Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: samba-common Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: samba-common-bin Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: libwbclient0 Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999 Package: libtalloc2 Pin: release a=lenny-backports Pin-Priority: 999
I haven’t actually installed it, but I will soon. So I don’t know if it will work or not. Aptitude -s suggests it does.
I often need to make a MySQL database and a user that can do anything in it:
create database bla character set utf8 collate = utf8_general_ci; use bla grant all on bla.* to 'jack'@'localhost' identified by 'password';
To drop a user:
drop user ‘jack'@'localhost’;
I’ve had to deal with crappy DNS servers quite a lot; servers that don’t resolve certain sites, servers that take endlessly, etc. Therefore, using OpenDNS can be a good solution. The IP addresses for OpenDNS are (including /etc/resolv.conf directives):
nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220
Here’s a nice post by Vivek Gite about ten of his biggest command line mistakes. The comments are good too.
One of these days, I want to play with Playdar, a “Music Content Resolver”.
While upgrading my MediaWiki installation, I noticed that my trusted, old Semantic Google Maps has been replaced by what seems to be the successor of what I considered the promising Semantic Layers extension. The new extension is simply called Semantic Maps.
May, last year, I created an empty draft for this post, because, around that time, I had gone through quite some effort before I got thumbnails for foreign file repos working just right. Now, I’m taking a dive into my MediaWiki working dirs in preparation of the creation of a separate development environment, so it’s a good moment to rehash the past experience (almost as good as when I’d have done it right away).
This is how I configured the foreign file repo to be able to use images uploaded to the English wiki from the Dutch wiki:
$wgHashedUploadDirectory = false; $wgForeignFileRepos[] = array( 'class' => 'ForeignDBRepo', 'name' => 'en', 'url' => "http://wiki.hardwood-investments.net/media", 'hashLevels' => 0, //'thumbScriptUrl' => "http://wiki.hardwood-investments.net/thumb.php", 'transformVia404' => true,//!$wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse, 'dbType' => $wgDBtype, 'dbServer' => $wgDBserver, 'dbUser' => $wgDBuser, 'dbPassword' => $wgDBpassword, 'dbName' => 'hardwood', 'tablePrefix' => 'mw_', 'hasSharedCache' => false, 'descBaseUrl' => 'http://wiki.hardwood-investments.net/Image:', 'fetchDescription' => false );
To make thumbnails be generated by thumb.php on request I added the following to my .htaccess at the other end (and visa versa, because the Dutch wiki actually contains most of the images):
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^media/thumb/([^/]+)/([0-9]+)px-.*$ /thumb.php?f=$1&width=$2 [L,QSA]
Certain codecs support multithreaded decoding, but you have to configure it, though. You can do that by adding this to your mplayer.conf:
lavdopts=threads=2
I do believe you need a special multi threaded binary of Mplayer, though. But, I’m not sure.
UPM is a forest company. They have a website about forest life. Check it out; it’s breathtakingly beautiful, its usage of Flash second to none.
(By the way: just as I was about to hit “Publish”, I was greeted by the sound of a Green Woodpecker from our own, private nature sanctuary.)
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