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Canon MF5470dw

Just got a new Canon MF5470dw print/fax/scan laser. Printed, but no scan. Helps if you don’t set it at the same IP address as the HP DeskJet. Stupid noob mistake. Works great with Vuescan!


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 [...]


Dumping a Java object ID to a string

I have wanted to do this in the past, never found the code. I found this handy code here recently. Wanted to save it here. Thanks, dude.

You can also handily convert an integer to a hex string using the Integer class, so you can get the value that would come after the @ [...]


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. [...]


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 [...]


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, [...]