Rus Hughes

Elgg 1.8 Tidypics Group Fix

Updated November 21, 2011 November 21, 2011 by Rus Hughes

I’m creating a new community site using the Elgg 1.8 platform, but a lot of the widgets are still using the old 1.7 CSS for their displays so it means a lot of fixing.

The existing tidypics/views/default/tidypics/groupprofile_albums.php suffers from this problem but is simply fixed by changing

 

photos_enable != 'no') {<br />
echo '</p>
<div class="group_tool_widget photos">';<br />
echo '<span class="group_widget_link"><a href="/elgg-1-8-tidypics-group-fix/' . $vars['url'] . 'pg/photos/owner/' . page_owner_entity()->username . '">' . elgg_echo('link:view:all') . '</a></span>';<br />
echo '</p>
<h3>' . elgg_echo('album:group') . '</h3>
<p>';<br />
echo elgg_view('tidypics/albums', array('num_albums' => 5));<br />
echo '</p></div>
<p>';<br />
}<br />
?><br />

BackupPC ping too slow

Updated October 25, 2011 October 25, 2011 by Rus Hughes

Whilst adding a new remote server to our BackupPC configuration, it threw the following error

`
Contents of file /Volumes/2TB/backuppc/pc/www.server.co.uk/LOG.102011, modified 2011-10-25 13:10:23

2011-10-25 12:00:00 ping too slow: 22.21msec
2011-10-25 13:00:01 ping too slow: 49.63msec
2011-10-25 13:10:23 ping too slow: 47.79msec
`

and refusing to back up the server! After browsing the documentation I discovered the following configuration option

 $Conf{PingMaxMsec} = 20; 

Maximum round-trip ping time in milliseconds. This threshold is set to avoid backing up PCs that are remotely connected through WAN or dialup connections. The output from ping -s (assuming it is supported on your system) is used to check the round-trip packet time. On your local LAN round-trip times should be much less than 20msec. On most WAN or dialup connections the round-trip time will be typically more than 20msec. Tune if necessary.

Linux Command Line AVI Repair

Updated September 8, 2011 September 8, 2011 by Rus Hughes

List Contents Of An RPM Package

Updated March 30, 2011 March 30, 2011 by Rus Hughes

Often when building RedHat RPM packages I want to make sure that the package built correctly and all the files are present before I actually install the RPM, but I do keep forgetting the command to do this, so here it is for prosperity!

 rpm -qlp 

e.g.

root@build:/usr/src/redhat/SPECS# rpm -qlp ../RPMS/noarch/servicemap-0.16-1.noarch.rpm /var/www/html/servicemap /var/www/html/servicemap/amq.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqfail.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqreportingprov1prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqreportingprov1prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqreportingprov2prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqreportingprov2prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqsdrprov1prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqsdrprov1prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqsdrprov2prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqsdrprov2prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee1fail.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee1prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee1prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee2fail.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee2prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqslee2prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqvqeprov1prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqvqeprov1prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqvqeprov2prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqvqeprov2prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqwebserviceprov1prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqwebserviceprov1prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqwebserviceprov2prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/amqwebserviceprov2prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/checks.php /var/www/html/servicemap/config.php /var/www/html/servicemap/hash.png /var/www/html/servicemap/index.php /var/www/html/servicemap/nagios.php /var/www/html/servicemap/script.php /var/www/html/servicemap/sleevipactivenotok.png /var/www/html/servicemap/style.php /var/www/html/servicemap/ttprov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/ttprov1prov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/ttprov2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/ttprov2prov1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/ttprovfail.png /var/www/html/servicemap/ttslee1.png /var/www/html/servicemap/ttslee1slee2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/ttslee2.png /var/www/html/servicemap/ttsleefail.png /var/www/html/servicemap/ttvipactivenotok.png /var/www/html/servicemap/ttvipactiveok.png

Cheese and Bacon Burger at The Victory

Updated March 4, 2011 March 4, 2011 by Rus Hughes

Recently I went to The Victory with some mates and watched as they ate an epic burger in front of it, so when I went back recently I had no choice but to investigate!

I opted for the bacon and cheese accessories, of course, and it comes with a massive portion of straight cut fries on the side and a small pot of bbq sauce too!

Chili Burger With Cheese at The Royal Pavilion Tavern

Updated January 22, 2011 January 22, 2011 by Rus Hughes

The Royal Pavilion Tavern, aka Pav Tav, is a pretty popular student venue in the evenings, but lunch time, on a Saturday, it’s mostly OAPs, but they do beer and a burger for £4.99 so it had to be tried, especially as I’m working today!

I opted for the Chilli Burger with Cheese and a beer, at £5.59, and upgraded to curly fries for an additional 69p, so all it all it came to £6.28, and of course soda and lime instead of a beer 🙂

Beer and a gourmet burger at the Wetherspoons

Updated January 21, 2011 January 21, 2011 by Rus Hughes

It’s a Friday and traditionally everyone goes to the pub for lunch as a precursor to what will be a fantastic weekend! A new Wetherspoons opened up near us recently and I was looking forwards to trying a Gourmet Burger from them as I’d had one of their normal burgers before and quite enjoyed it!

It’s a 6oz burger, made from British beef, and from their description:

 Topped with two bacon slices and a Stilton, Shropshire blue and spring onion sauce. Includes six beer-battered whole onion rings. 

Beer and a burger at the Wahoo bar

Updated January 17, 2011 January 17, 2011 by Rus Hughes

We decided to go and watch the football at the Wahoo bar yesterday and I saw their beer and a burger for £4.99 offer and couldn’t say no!

For £4.99 you get a burger on a white bun, loaded with salad, gerkins, 2 hash browns and a side portion of chips. You also get a drink, either a bottle, something on draft or a soft drink, I opted for a pint of Kronenburg!

Changing A DRAC Password On The Command Line With racadm

Updated October 19, 2010 October 19, 2010 by Rus Hughes

All Dell DRACs come with a default account set up as root / calvin which is a huge security risk if left!

The web interface doesn’t let you change the password but the firmware does when you boot the server.

A second way to change the password is with the racadm tool, if installed, at the command line! This means you don’t have to reboot that precious production server!

In DRAC 4, the first index slot is root by default. In DRAC 5 and 6, index 1 is Administrator, index 2 is root.

SVN Rolling Back A Commit To A File

Updated September 7, 2010 September 7, 2010 by Rus Hughes

I needed to roll back an SVN commit done recently to an init script for one of our daemons, it’s a very easy process!

First we need to see what the latest revision number of the file that we want to roll back is

Chill:files idimmu$ svn info slee Path: slee Name: slee URL: https://svn.idimmu.net/msu/trunk/puppet/modules/jnetxslee/files/slee Repository Root: https://svn.idimmu.net/msu Repository UUID: 573313b0-15b8-499c-acf0-a5a26a3c7166 Revision: 1517 Node Kind: file Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: idimmu Last Changed Rev: 1256 Last Changed Date: 2010-08-12 10:51:15 +0100 (Thu, 12 Aug 2010) Text Last Updated: 2010-08-12 10:50:57 +0100 (Thu, 12 Aug 2010) Checksum: 8940fdf3ed6ee8281b94f55c2fe7880a

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