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SSH public key and Bitbucket

So I use Bitbucket to host several private Hg repos, all working great from Windows via Putty and Pageant.

Today I tried to update the local repo.

C:\bin\app>hg pull sending hello command sending between command abort: no suitable response from remote hg!

WTF? Tried different machines, other accounts, same problem.

Bit of Googling… some users [...]

Best Eulogy Ever

Rest in Peace, Dennis

Centos Fun with a locked Boot. Thanks, Hudson 2.1.1.

Say the Hudson script locks up during boot, for example, after you upgrade to 2.1.1 and it does not work and someone said removing the –daemon argument makes it work and something else fails so you roll back the hudson.war and restart and it now locks up on boot. No SSH – sshd is the [...]

Upgrading Atahualpa

Did you know that if you upgrade the Atahualpa theme from the Update page in the WordPress Admin, it deletes all the custom header images in your website?

Me neither.

Upgrading WordPress in Bulk

Of course there is the old faithful Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion and Upgrading_WordPress_Extended, but there is a lot of fluff there. Old blogs are “You are using WordPress 2.9.1″. Show me the command lines.

Certainly.

“Backup your database. Read Backing Up Your Database for a detailed explanation.” Use Plugin WP-DB-Backup from http://austinmatzko.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-db-backup/ Download it – make sure the copy is here. [...]

Final ledger entries

For three days now I have been trying to figure out how to account for payments to the Clinic via PayPal. The money goes into my personal PayPal account, and credits against money owed me for expenses, but I just don’t want to post the delta, I want to track what happened so the cash [...]

Epsilon woes

Walgreens. Chase. 1800Flowers.com. Target.

Dear 1800Flowers.com Customer:

One of our email service providers, Epsilon, has informed us that we are among a group of companies affected by a data breach that may have exposed your email address to unauthorized third parties. It’s important to know that this incident did not involve other account or personally [...]

osql -> isql -> aargh on Ubuntu

Trying to set up ODBC on Ubuntu. osql is a great script to test it out, but running it on Ubuntu 10.10:

root:~# osql -S fcstest -U sa -P ***** osql: error: no potential directory strings in “/usr/local/bin/isql” isql strings are: + /lib/ld-linux.so.2

So inspecting the code, I can extract the meaningful parts on [...]

Hudson, Git and the extra space

At work I am installing a new Hudson slave for continuous integration. Everything works great, using the Tanuki Java Service Wrapper to fire up the slave.jar, but when it comes time to run the build, it fails:

Started by user anonymous Building remotely on warehouse_build_slave Checkout:WarehousePortal_Rake / /var/hudson/workspace/WarehousePortal_Rake – hudson.remoting.Channel@26c81672:warehouse_build_slave Using strategy: Default Checkout:WarehousePortal_Rake [...]

Why Unix Rocks – cat

I got an email from a friend where the Word doc attachment was broken into 19 pieces and Base64 encoded. I started to open each file and copy out the payload, then got bored and considered a Perl script.

What’s the simplest thing?

First have a batch file: copy p1 + p2 temp1 copy p3+temp1 [...]