Velo, Rapido: This is about a few different things.

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Blargh, Blimey, RAM, DVD

Okay, lazyweb: Why can't I play DVDs and why, when I have installed in my computer two RAM modules of 2GiB each, does my computer have 2.9 GiB of the RAMS? Why? On the DVD end, I have installed one million things and gotten from an error in Totem ("no uri handler implemented for dvd") to Totem quietly crashing when I try to play a DVD. VLC spins the disk and then stops. /var/log/messages shows this after trying to run VLC: Dec 13 13:10:02 luna kernel: [10853.901791] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit region Dec 13 13:10:02 luna kernel: [10853.906376] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 13 13:10:02 luna kernel: [10853.906386] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current] Dec 13 13:10:02 luna kernel: [10853.906397] Info fld=0x98d0 Dec 13 13:10:02 luna kernel: [10853.906402] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Media region code is mismatched to logical unit region

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This Time I Mean It

The Frankenserver must go. Today we were having a little bit of woah with the old Phorum installation. Does seem to get derailed, that one. More on that later: the net result was that Apache was choking to the point where I couldn't even ssh into the machine. I phoned Ye Olde Rackspace, who confirmed Franken's unresponsiveness and had the data center reboot it. And for a split second I was able to get in and run top, which showed me a whole lot of apache processes. More than I've ever seen before. I quit top and tried to stop apache: sudo /etc/init.d/httpd stop That failed the first time but being a persistent sort of woman I tried it again. And then I called Rackspace to find out what they were doing. We have a support contract with them, you see, and I realized that ... 1) I don't want to work at cross purposes with their esteemed technical whiz-kids, and 2) I don't want to do work someone else is already doing. I've got other things to do. Blogs to read. That was a joke, by the way. I don't read blogs at work. Ever. So I get them on the phone and whiz kid one says to me "well, I'm just going to restart apache here and see what that tells us." What restarting apache tells us. And before I could say "hang on" he did. Just in time to snarl my request for the tail of apache's error logs. It just went down hill from there, the upshot being that I mostly resolved the problem despite Rackspace. I'm done paying $350+/month for Rackspace. They aren't earning it. I've been moaning about this server for eons. When last we left off I was contemplating life without a service contract. I can see now that I don't need this service contract. Liberating revelation, that one. Elastic clouds scare me because I don't understand them. Also because I don't think I can have a static IP on a cloud. VPS I understand. So now I'm sketching my new server and workplan. Here's what I think I'm installing:

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Whining Works and Waffles

One: kid brother is trying to password protect photos of our nephew. Our nephew. Kid brother did not bear spawn. But he's struggling with htaccess and authentication. Among other things that make it kind of difficult (besides just starting from scratch being difficult) he's stuck with FTP ...

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NYPD to Amanda: Drop Dead

Got a ticket this morning, and had to stand on a traffic island with Brooklyn Bridge-bound cars whizzing by while I waited for Officer Illegible to write me up. Apparently, you aren't actually allowed to ride a bike from the bike lane on the street to the bike lane on the bridge. Because you have to enter the crosswalk to do so. You're supposed to wait until all the cars coming up Tillary get a green turn signal, and then cross their path to get to the bridge.

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Grumble Grumble Grumble sed Grumble Grumble

What if I had a shitton of ancient shtml files that all, somewhere near the top of the body, contained a line like "BEGIN MAIN CONTENT"? What if I wanted to wipe everything above that and substitute some include script? I'd use sed, right?

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OOo Base

OpenOffice has a database app. It has come a long (long, long) way over the last few years but uff is it ever just not there yet. I do need the query browser. Things you can't do with OOo Base include add a fulltext index. Not with the ...

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Chomp, Chomp, Sort!

Okay, so I'm getting someplace. I've got my chompy stuffs into an array. I've got it all in PHP. But now I need to sort a multi-dimensional array by a value in the second array. I've got an array (events) that contains each event as an array. ...

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Why I Hate AT&T

Just hung up on the customer service automaton. I was having such a nice morning, but after the third time that my phone went on a wringing binge, I decided to call. First, they have no service request on file for my number? How's that? I tried filing one on the website but got no response. Now they need me to look up my most recent bill--why? I'm calling to say the line is broken. I could be the squatter living on the roof calling to say the line is broken. The line'd still be broken.

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Speaking of Haters (posfix)

In which s27248.example.com is my box and 11.22.33.444 is my IP address. So AOL is right to complain to me. Now I need to figure out how firstlady.ca [70.54.215.82] is managing to use s27248 (a fine name for a box if ever there was one) as her SMTP server. I'll be sure to let you know how it goes.

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Just wondering

Was the mustache game fun? (tell me I didn't miss anything). Will they who come after recognize that these little text files named "meep" and "feh" came from me? Is this my footprint? Why does grep think that text files aren't? 25 Binary file ./suggests/insert.php matches 26 Binary file ./suggests/insertcat.php matches Is it grep what thinks that? Similarly, is there a batch operation that will let me fix the file formats of thousands of files with ^M where they mean to have line breaks?

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