If your in Miami
Go visit my friend’s newly opened Irish pub, (Yes they are Irish) in South Miami: The Irish Times Irish Pub & Eatery is officially OPENING FOR BUSINESS today at 8:00p.m.!!! Just in time for St....
View ArticleToshiba Laptops & Linux
Toshiba has a site dedicated to using Linux on their Laptops: http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/index.htm Toshiba supports the Linux community with the TOSHIBA Digital Media Engineering...
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Google apps for Linux
Specifically for Debian, see here: http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/apt.html I’m not sure what software is in their repo besides Picasa, Google Earth might be there too, but I’ve been using the...
View ArticleXSLT & 1.5 JVM’s
Oh bugger! [junitreport] ERROR: ‘Unrecognized XSLTC extension ‘org.apache.xalan.lib.Redirect:write” BUILD FAILED Errors while applying transformations: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unrecognized XSLTC...
View ArticleItalian Police seek Hypnotist thief?
Weird and unusual news! Italian police are looking for a man supposedly hypnotising people and making them hand over money: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7309947.stm In every case, the last thing...
View ArticleLight bulbs
Drat! Seems those energy efficient CFL’s (Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs) contain just enough lead that the bulbs could be a problem when they’re put in the rubbish (link found via Slashdot):...
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Robin
A pic I took today when walking home along the Fens in Fenway after having the Irish breakfast at the Squealing Pig: Later in the day while walking the Dog along Commonwealth Ave, we saw this hawk in a...
View Articledjango.db.utils.DataError: invalid value for parameter “TimeZone”
If your Django Apps throws this error: cursor.execute(self.ops.set_time_zone_sql(), [tz]) django.db.utils.DataError: invalid value for parameter "TimeZone": "America/New_York" The problem is that...
View ArticleMoving a Directory from One Git Repo to Another (with history)
git log --pretty=email --patch-with-stat --reverse --full-index --binary directory_name > /tmp/directory_name_patch; git init directory_name; cd directory_name; git am < /tmp/directory_name_patch;
View ArticleLet’s Encrypt Cert & Nginx (Using a Web Proxy) on Centos 6.x
This was done on Centos 6 where prebuilt ‘certbot’ packages are not available. On Centos 7, install ‘certbot’ from the EPEL repo. cd ~root; mkdir certbot; wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto; chmod...
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Migrate Section of a Git Repo to a new Git Repo
I inherited a git repo that has multiple projects in it. It’s easier to manage the code and dependencies if each of these projects are in their own git repo. The process is pretty simple: Export the...
View ArticleMigrate Django 1.4 to 1.11
I thought these rough notes might be useful to anyone migrating from Django 1.4 (and possibly 1.3) to Django 1.11. Moving from South to Django Migrations 1. Update your settings files: Remove ‘south’...
View ArticleCentos 7: qt5 packages missing when installing synergy-1.9.1
The fix is to installed qt5-qtbase & qt5-qtbase-gui: yum install qt5-qtbase qt5-qtbase-gui The specific warnings are:# rpm -i synergy-1.9.1-322.stable.2a0225c1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm error: Failed...
View ArticleEdx on Debian Stretch
After you clone the Edx repo there you will find a (undocumented) list of packages required to install on Ubuntu: requirements/system/ubuntu/apt-packages.txt These packages and others are required for...
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VAST Storage API & JQ
Hiking Glendalough Park in Ireland Vast builds some neat storage systems that provide management functionality via a REST API. jq is a command-line JSON processor, or as the author describes it “sed...
View ArticleInstall portal_client on Linux
A user asked for help installing Portal Client. Which is a: Python-based client for downloading data files hosted by the an instance of the portal software developed by the GDC and further modified by...
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Debian: Yarn fails to run.
Try setting the following environmental variable: export NODE_PATH=/usr/lib/nodejs:/usr/share/nodejs Yarn fails to run and shows a stacktrace like the following? Set the NODE_PATH. Error: Cannot find...
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