Comments for BigSmoke http://blog.bigsmoke.us Smokes your problems, coughs fresh air. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:03:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Enforcing Drupal URL aliases by Tobias Sjösten http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2009/06/10/enforcing-drupal-url-aliases#comment-127640 Tobias Sjösten Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:03:14 +0000 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=574#comment-127640 I realize this is an old blog post but for completeness sake I felt like adding a pair of cents. This seems to be solved in Global Redirect by issue #201675 (http://drupal.org/node/201675). That is probably the best approach to avoid nasty side effects. You really should not base your block visibility on path aliases. Actually, you should not use block visibility at all. Rather use Context (http://drupal.org/project/context) or Panels (http://drupal.org/project/panels) to control where your blocks are placed. This can really help with your performance. @Tony Chung: Don't blame the tool if you don't know how to use it. ;) There's a module called Pathauto (http://drupal.org/project/pathauto) which does exactly what you want and unlike WordPress it's not a performance hog if you decide to use custom path syntaxes. I realize this is an old blog post but for completeness sake I felt like adding a pair of cents.

This seems to be solved in Global Redirect by issue #201675 (http://drupal.org/node/201675). That is probably the best approach to avoid nasty side effects.

You really should not base your block visibility on path aliases. Actually, you should not use block visibility at all. Rather use Context (http://drupal.org/project/context) or Panels (http://drupal.org/project/panels) to control where your blocks are placed. This can really help with your performance.

@Tony Chung: Don’t blame the tool if you don’t know how to use it. ;) There’s a module called Pathauto (http://drupal.org/project/pathauto) which does exactly what you want and unlike WordPress it’s not a performance hog if you decide to use custom path syntaxes.

]]> Comment on Psychopathic Saturday by Rowan Rodrik http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2012/01/21/psychopathic-saturday#comment-126881 Rowan Rodrik Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:06:17 +0000 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=2068#comment-126881 Finally, I'm done with criticizing myself and the others about the content of that psycho poster. Now, I hope that I still have enough time left to get all that psysiology and farmacology stuff crammed into my head before next wednesday! But, first it's time to take a piss. Where's Twitter when you need it? Did I mention that I love my poster group? The girls are great to work with. :-) Finally, I’m done with criticizing myself and the others about the content of that psycho poster. Now, I hope that I still have enough time left to get all that psysiology and farmacology stuff crammed into my head before next wednesday!

But, first it’s time to take a piss. Where’s Twitter when you need it?

Did I mention that I love my poster group? The girls are great to work with. :-)

]]> Comment on Psychopathic Saturday by Rowan Rodrik http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2012/01/21/psychopathic-saturday#comment-126785 Rowan Rodrik Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:36:22 +0000 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=2068#comment-126785 The initial draft worked out quite well in the end. Now I need to ask myself whether I've got enough energy left to revise and criticize the work of the others. ;) The initial draft worked out quite well in the end. Now I need to ask myself whether I’ve got enough energy left to revise and criticize the work of the others. ;)

]]> Comment on Psychopathic Saturday by Rowan Rodrik http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2012/01/21/psychopathic-saturday#comment-126765 Rowan Rodrik Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:49:53 +0000 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=2068#comment-126765 Let's clean up my room in healthy, wholesome procrastination spirit. :idea: Let’s clean up my room in healthy, wholesome procrastination spirit. :idea:

]]> Comment on Psychopathic Saturday by Rowan Rodrik http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2012/01/21/psychopathic-saturday#comment-126764 Rowan Rodrik Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:43:46 +0000 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=2068#comment-126764 Currently, I feel much more like revising and criticizing the work of my team mates than actually producing something useful myself. :-| Currently, I feel much more like revising and criticizing the work of my team mates than actually producing something useful myself. :-|

]]> Comment on Posting to WordPress via the command-line by Rowan Rodrik http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2010/12/24/posting-to-wordpress-via-the-command-line#comment-122310 Rowan Rodrik Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:33:56 +0000 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=1208#comment-122310 <a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2582" rel="nofollow">blogit.vim</a> may be just what I'm looking for. After all, the reason why I want to be able to post from the command-line is so that I can write my posts with VIM. (No, I don't like copy-paste, although, with <a href="http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2010/01/31/xsel" rel="nofollow">xsel</a>, it might not even be that painful.) Also, I've superficially compared blogit.vim with Vimpress and Vimrepress and decided that I like blogit.vim better. blogit.vim may be just what I’m looking for. After all, the reason why I want to be able to post from the command-line is so that I can write my posts with VIM. (No, I don’t like copy-paste, although, with xsel, it might not even be that painful.)

Also, I’ve superficially compared blogit.vim with Vimpress and Vimrepress and decided that I like blogit.vim better.

]]> Comment on Setting max memory of a Xen Dom0 by Rowan Rodrik http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2011/09/07/setting-max-memory-of-a-xen-dom0#comment-121985 Rowan Rodrik Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:29:11 +0000 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=1985#comment-121985 Dude, I recall you saying at some time that it'd be impossible to beat my post count, because I had such a big head start… Well, a few posts ago, you did. Just sayin'. ;-) Dude, I recall you saying at some time that it’d be impossible to beat my post count, because I had such a big head start… Well, a few posts ago, you did. Just sayin’. ;-)

]]> Comment on Setting up a postfix fallback MX by halfgaar http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2011/05/22/setting-up-a-postfix-fallback-mx#comment-113389 halfgaar Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:13:26 +0000 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=1957#comment-113389 I had forgotten to update this post after I found out it didn't work. I <a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/272860/postfix-unverified-recipient-tempfail-action-permit" rel="nofollow">asked on serverfault</a> how to implement what I wanted, but it never got answered. It even only got 8 vies in one week :( I had forgotten to update this post after I found out it didn’t work. I asked on serverfault how to implement what I wanted, but it never got answered. It even only got 8 vies in one week :(

]]> Comment on Setting up a postfix fallback MX by halfgaar http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2011/05/22/setting-up-a-postfix-fallback-mx#comment-113386 halfgaar Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:03:47 +0000 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=1957#comment-113386 Manuel Riel responded through e-mail: Great plan. But: in which version of postfix is this a valid option: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit You actually got this working or it's more academic? Or a cutting-edge postfix version? Manuel Riel responded through e-mail:

Great plan.

But: in which version of postfix is this a valid option:

unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

You actually got this working or it’s more academic? Or a cutting-edge postfix version?

]]> Comment on Adding a disk to a RAID5 array on a 3Ware array with tw_cli by halfgaar http://blog.bigsmoke.us/2011/02/17/adding-a-disk-to-a-raid5-array-on-a-3ware-array-with-tw_cli#comment-107798 halfgaar Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:23:00 +0000 http://blog.bigsmoke.us/?p=1889#comment-107798 Late response, but thanks :) I am 1337 h4x0r. Late response, but thanks :) I am 1337 h4x0r.

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