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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 [...]


Read-only RedHat VM Filesystem

I restored a RedHat VirtualBox VM from a colleague. I installed the VirtualBox extensions, changed some files on the box and rebooted. Everything went back. Tried again. Never changed. Made a snapshot. No difference.

After a little googling, found this article. Could the file system be read-only?

mount -o remount,rw /VolumeXXXXX /

It sticks. Something [...]


Wacom Pen Partner

My Wacom PenPartner is an orphan, unsupported under Windows 7 or Vista.

I was hopeful that the Virtual Tablet product would support it, worth $50, but no.

Linux drivers are being developed at the linuxwacom project but I dont have time or the knowledge to convert them to Windows drivers.

I can get [...]


WP 3.0.1 and Atahualpa

So I upgrade to WP 3.0.1 using Atahualpa and cannot edit pages. Page, edit, left menu but no text, no nothing. Bad. Have to hold off upgrading all the other blogs. Upgrade Atahualpa to 3.5.3. No good.

After weeks of search, found this post which sez PHP4 does not cut it.

What does 1&1 supply [...]


Hero to Optimus S

So why did I switch to an Android phone with the name like an old Radio Shack speaker brand? My brother likes to get new phones especially since we’re on a two-year family plan contract from other phones, so he grabbed one of the LG Optimus phones. He played with it for a few days, [...]


Windows 7 Start Menu

So where are the Start Menu shortcuts stored?

In XP, C:\Documents and Settings\me\Start Menu was where mine lived, and C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu was where the shortcuts for all lived. It seems to have changed in Vista and Windows 7. Where have I been?

Actually I like the way the new dir structure [...]


Migrating to Mercurial

I have been wrestling with converting my old source code projects to a modern source control system and in some cases source control at all. At one point, I tried using a converter from CVS to Subversion, with lousy results. Fast-forward to today, where, armed with a new installation of Mercurial and some experience working [...]


The Grue

I have a Tai Chi instruction sheet with “White Stork Spreads Wings” and translated into French, “La grue blanche deploie ses ailes”.

So in the old adventure game Zork (Wikipedia), are you you afraid that “it is likely that you will be eaten by a stork”. Oooh, scary.


Microsoft File Transfer Manager

Today I was using this to download 4Gb ISO files from MSDN. Browsers failed, even the Firefox DownItAll! Plugin. It was slow, bursts of 100K with 10 second intervals. The speed was that of a bad modem. And it would hang up every 10 minutes and require a manual resume command.

After 10 hours [...]