Today I tried to update the local repo.

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

Bit of Googling… some users [...]]]>

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 report Bitbucket messes up the public keys, at arbitrary times, as they all share the hg user.
Updated the public key on Bitbucket with the SAME value. It even looked different, like it was missing a character. Now it works…

C:\bin\app>hg pull
pulling from ssh://hg@hg.dacsoft.com/dacsoft/bin
searching for changes
no changes found

Go figure.

Me neither.

Certainly.

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 [...]]]>

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 identifiable information.
We use permission-based email service providers such as Epsilon
to help us manage email communications to our customers.

Jeez, doesn’t anyone do their own email anymore?

Seems to be a lot of new spam. Popfile is getting most of it, but some new stuff in the Inbox. Morons.

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 [...]]]>

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 RHEL, where it works:

ISQL=$(command -v isql)
strings ${ISQL} | grep ^/
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
/usr/local/lib


but on Ubuntu, the same sequence:

dchwalis:/usr/local/src$ strings ${ISQL} | grep ^/
/lib/ld-linux.so.2


Note the missing /usr/local/lib – the grep filters following will NEVER find any strings…

Maybe we should do this: RHEL:

$ ldd /usr/local/bin/isql
libodbc.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libodbc.so.1 (0x00002b5b76eb4000)
...


and Ubuntu:

root:/usr/local/bin# ldd isql
libodbc.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libodbc.so.1 (0x001cd000)


We can pull a path from that!

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 [...]]]>

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 / /var/hudson/workspace/WarehousePortal_Rake - hudson.remoting.LocalChannel@1e9b7b2
Cloning the remote Git repository
Cloning repository origin
ERROR: Error cloning remote repo 'origin' : Could not clone ssh://XXXXXX.XXX/git/projectname
ERROR: Cause: Error performing command: /usr/local/bin/git clone -o origin ssh://XXXXXXX.XXX/git/projectname /var/hudson/workspace/projectname_rake
Cannot run program "/usr/local/bin/git ": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
Trying next repository
ERROR: Could not clone repository
FATAL: Could not clone
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: Could not clone
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:880)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM$2.invoke(GitSCM.java:812)
at hudson.FilePath$FileCallableWrapper.call(FilePath.java:1899)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:114)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:48)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:270)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at hudson.remoting.Engine$1$1.run(Engine.java:58)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)


Lots of Googling. Pulled down the source for Hudson, opened in Eclipse. Pulled down the Git plugin source. Reviewed the setup with other Hudson slaves. Looks great. But it doesn’t work.

Run /usr/local/bin/git clone -o origin ssh://XXXXXXX.XXX/git/projectname /var/hudson/workspace/projectname_rake from the shell. Works great.

Permissions good. Using /usr/local/bin/git to launch. Replaced with a shell script and could echo out some stuff. The dang thing is running!

Finally poking around in hudson.Util.ArgumentListBuilder.
if(arg.indexOf(' ')>=0 || arg.length()==0)
buf.append('"').append(arg).append('"');
else
buf.append(arg);
}


Oh no. If there is a space in the program name it will double quote it.

Open Manage Hudson, Configure System. Check the git “Path to Git executable”. It is “/usr/local/bin/git ” with a space at the end. Just like in the log:
Cannot run program "/usr/local/bin/git ": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory

Remove the space. Fixed. 3 hours I will never get back.

What’s the simplest thing?

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

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 temp2
copy p4+temp2 temp3
...

Nuts. I gave up typing. Too much thinking.

Create a small batch file via dir /b:
cat "Stained Glass Book StAnnsStainedGlass.docx [01_19].eml" > fred.docx
cat "Stained Glass Book StAnnsStainedGlass.docx [02_19].eml" >> fred.docx
..
cat "Stained Glass Book StAnnsStainedGlass.docx [19_19].eml" >> fred.docx


Then edit fred.docx using Scite, looking for an X-header to remove the headers. Probably could have used grep or sed, but for 19 edits, why look up the command line options?

Then run base64 -d -i fred.docx >ff.docx. The -i handles stuff I missed.

Works great. Of course, you need the Unix utils via cygwin. It should be built into Windows. Or we should just use Ubuntu…

Or maybe type filename >> target would work. Whatever.