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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 [...]


“New” Computer

So Steve talked me into an upgrade. I needed to install Windows 7 anyway, and so here was the chance. Bette was gone for the weekend and I had a nice block of time. I ordered a used Gigabyte mobo with processor from eBay. Hmm.

So I opened up the box, and found that the [...]


Photo Mechanic

So I am trying to archive the check scans. TIF files named “donation-2010-DEP01-01.TIF” to identify the year, deposit batch number (01) and the scan number within the batch.

I first just entered the keywords using Thumbs Plus 7. Pain. TP8 is not much better – cannot keep the image open while I add the [...]


Lifesource Phone Spam

At work, I would get calls:

Voice Message 8884274836

At home, three times a night. Never leaving a messsage.

I Googled the phone number finally and found who: Lifesource blood services.

I logged in (easy) and turned off all my notifications. We’ll see if it works.


Installing Windows XP into a Virtual Box VM

I need to do some testing, so let’s try installing Windows XP Pro into a Virtual Box VM to avoid trashing my production system. Which is pretty trashed anyway, and has a big frosty pre-ordered (cheap) Windows 7 waiting when I finally get around to researching a driver for my now non-supported HP LaserJet 3150 [...]


Burnt Teapot

So I started the teapot up today, and went downstairs to check one thing. Ten minutes later I came up and there was no whistle. After checking the teapot, there was no water.

With our old crappy teapot, I wouldn’t care. Let it cool down, whatever. Of course this teapot is a 19/10 stainless teapot [...]


A New WordPress Install

Get the storage folder; redirect the domain there;

Get the code into the target dir: $ svn co http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/2.9 .

Copy wp-config.php $ cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Get new secret keys: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

Edit wp-config.php $ vi wp-config.php Change dbname, hostname, password. Change 4 secret key lines to above lines.

Run config: http://example.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php

Set [...]


DeDuping MusikCube playlists

Or, Use SQL Squirrel and JDBC to dedupe MusikCube playlists

I use MusikCube a lot. That said, I sometimes share files from various machines that have duplicate files, and rather than hand-edit the playlists after each synchronization to eliminate the duplicate albums, I want an automated way. Since MusikCube runs on SQLite, why not do [...]


Quicken 2009 R7

So got the online notice for Quicken 2009 that R7 is ready. I tried 4 times, got a “patching engine has failed” error. After some googling and using Filemon to find the log, and looking in the log, I found that one of the files was not being recognized as the correct version. Dead.

Today [...]


Wordpress Upload error 500

I was working on the trideltamc.org wordpress installation and tested uploading pictures. Error 500. Huh.

A little googling. Found this article on Error 500 WordPress 1&1 Web Hosting. I already had a .htaccess file, but added the two lines – the first time I forgot the space and it blew up everything.

Thanks dude!