blast from the past

This post was written 6 years ago.
Fri, 30 Dec 2005
there must be nostalgia in the air as recently I recieved some mp3's from an old friend of mine, mark (aka dudley) of a musical collaboration we once had going under the moniker of "mogrove jo"*.

it was 1997. I was going through my mercury rev/ I wanna be a singer phase. Mark did the programming, I did the bass/guitars/vocals/rebirth wibbling. This recording was done on a crap pc using cubasis audio and was mixed to tape before being redigitized by mark's mate kev, who had the last remaining copy stashed in a cupboard somewhere on C90 audio tape - the quality didn't start great...

anyway, out of the 50ish songs I wrote when I had too much time on my hands, spanish sunshine and cheap wine aplenty, this is one of the only ones I still like.. and buried under all that fuzz/FX/echo my voice sounds kinda OK :-)

*the name derives from being lost in the north of spain and finding myself in a tiny village in the picos de europas(?) with a name that I remember being at least similar to mogrove jo.
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mysqldump of remote database to local machine command

This post was written 6 years ago.
Fri, 23 Dec 2005
example

#mysqldump --host=the.remotedatabase.com -u yourusername -p yourdatabasename > /Users/rick/backups/foo.sql

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Hi Rick,
You left out a '-' before the host. The correct syntax is:

#mysqldump --host=the.remotedatabase.com -u yourusername -p yourdatabasename > /Users/rick/backups/foo.sql

Philip Thompson 2008-10-31 18:21:38
@Philip: I have copied your command to my terminal and it ends up with the wrong sort of hyphen. I think it should be:

#mysqldump --host=the.remotedatabase.com -u yourusername -p yourdatabasename > /Users/rick/backups/foo.sql

Lenni 2009-08-22 11:00:49
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nokia web tablet

This post was written 6 years ago.
Wed, 21 Dec 2005
nokia web tablet showing hypothecate.co.uk

Someone at netsight has just taken delivery of a nokia web tablet. It is a lovely gadget and we are all busy thinking up reasons to justify us all getting one. The screen is pretty amazing and having 800 pixel width means that most websites are very useable. It is running opera and I was pleased to see that my DOM-only javascripts (such as the menus on this site*) work fine. It also has a flash plugin (not sure what version or how good it is). It has built in wifi and bluetooth, and runs linux so the possibilities are endless. The downside is that it doesn't have a hard drive, so using it as a video ipod substitute isn't really an option unless RS-MMC cards suddenly get really hi-capacity and cheap.

* I've since done a better, less "obtrusive" version of the menu javascript similar to used on this site. It is on a clients site that isn't launched yet, I may well hint in it's general direction when it goes live.
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the problem with hosted services

This post was written 6 years ago.
Mon, 19 Dec 2005
seems that a few of the popular hosted services are having problems - typepad and del.icio.us have been down in the last week, and bloglines had a news item recently warning that they are struggling and are soon to be moving to a bigger datacenter to cope.

It's to be expected really as these things get more popular, but it gets people upset, even if it only actually causes minor inconvenience (what? you mean I can't get to my daily bookmarks today - how will I cope? gahh!!!.. I can't get to my blog to blog how angry I am about it! etc).

For business services obviously the inconvenience is greater, and has a financial impact. (Don't make me say "time is money"- it's not - but that is a whole other rant). Anyway, not sure where i'm going with this...
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Insufficient Privileges in Plone

This post was written 6 years ago.
Wed, 14 Dec 2005
insufficient privileges in plone
here is my proposed solution to the number of emails I receive from confused users of plone sites who have been sent to the Insufficient Privileges page. The default text for this page is a bit blunt, and often makes people take it personally and get confused or even angry. Therefore a bit of rewording and a cute kitten picture I believe might make things better for everyone ;-)

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Hey, I'm really missing the picture of the cute kitten! I really loved this error page back when it had the cute kitten on it! But now I am just left confused (though not quite angry). Mostly sad. You still talk about the kitten -- but no kitten! Mew!!!

--Clare

Clare 2008-09-11 08:28:53
oh no! this must have got lost in the server move - I will try to track it down an reinstate!

Rick 2008-09-15 07:58:52
Thank you! I could really use a view of that cute kitten right now....

Clare 2008-09-15 22:14:00
Awwww, guess you can't find the cute kitten! Now I am sad.... :(

Clare 2008-10-11 20:01:12
Hmmm, apparently I should give up now. =^..^=

Clare 2008-11-07 05:44:08
sorry, been stupidly busy and recently had a complete hard drive failure - I *will* track it down one day!

Rick 2008-11-07 07:00:15
OK, I found it in my flickr stream :)

Rick 2009-05-08 10:49:22
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headphone etiquette

This post was written 6 years ago.
Wed, 14 Dec 2005
On my way into work I often stop in at a coffee shop and buy a stupidly overpriced coffee variation ("to go!" wtf?). I'm usually wearing my earphones, but I pause the music so I can communicate properly with the person behing the counter. If I don't remove my earphones, the person serving me always assumes that I haven't turned the music off so starts talking really loud at me or starts waving at me before speaking, so i've got into a habit of removing the earphones when I reach the counter. Today, I had to deal with a transition from Fugazi's "Repeater" (the album, not sure what track) on my earphones to Madness's "It must be love" on the coffee shop sound system, plus it got all complicated with me trying to find my money and hook the earphones through my bag strap.

Life is complicated - as you can see I obviously have a lot to deal with on a day to day basis. To make life easier, i'm going to advance to one of my usual new years resolutions - no more takeaway coffee. Starting now (just after i've consigned this last cardboard cup to the landfill).
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paintworks - bristols creative quarter

This post was written 6 years ago.
Fri, 09 Dec 2005
bristol paintworks

This keeps cropping up on my radar. The website doesn't give much away, but basically it is a project to build a creative quarter for bristol, uk using the site and buildings of a disused waterside victorian paintworks.

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E3 are based in the Paintworks

Mark Dearman 2008-09-07 18:36:56
Indeed they are, as are a number of companies now - the post I made above was in 2005 when it was just a twinkle in the eye of the developers :)

Rick 2008-09-07 19:27:06
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firefox web developer toolbar extension greyed out

This post was written 6 years ago.
Fri, 09 Dec 2005
yesterday I found that my web developer toolbar was greyed out. I wrongly assumed this was due to a recent upgrade to version 1.5 on my mac. It turned out it was nothing to do with that - I had inadvertently clicked the enable/disable button on the right hand side of the bar. The button is green if the toolbar is disabled, so if you have googled your way here and have the same problem, try clicking it!

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I tried clicking the green button and it is still greyed out! You'd think a web developer would be able to figure out how to re-activate a toolbar!

Josh Kaufman 2006-11-29 03:40:51
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posting to blogworksxml using bloGTK

This post was written 6 years ago.
Tue, 06 Dec 2005
fantastic, this seems to work :-)
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Netsight Metropolitan Colocation Centre

This post was written 6 years ago.
Tue, 06 Dec 2005
netsight metroploition colocation centre

Netsight have now launched their new colocation facility, offering rack-space in central Bristol, UK. From the new colocation data centre website (launched yesterday, yours truly did the HTML, CSS and Zope templating):-

The Netsight MCC (Metropolitan Colocation Centre) is located in central Bristol, and is easily reachable from the South West and the M4 corridor. The facility is compact but highly specified, and can provide data centre rackspace either by the U or in full racks.

The datacentre is independently owned and managed, and is completely telco-neutral. Our colocation packages are flexible and can be tailored to your exact requirements.

Housing the hub of the expanding BMEX metropolitan network, the facility is ideally suited for both commercial and research ventures.
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shutdown mac osx from command line

This post was written 6 years ago.
Mon, 05 Dec 2005
shutdown -h now
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