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Category Archives: *NIX

Django on Dreamhost

Sunday, September 28, 2008

It doesn’t take much searching to suspect that Django on Dreamhost maby not be an ideal environment, but it does work. Running Django on Dreamhost involves using Fastcgi, which is officially supported by Django, but not a recommended configuration. I found following the official tutorial sufficient in setting up Django on Dreamhost. A couple of [...]

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Upgrading Python on a Dreamhost Account

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Java is just my day job. In fact, it’s pretty dull too sometimes. I like to venture out when I can and work with other technologies. In this case, I’ve been messing around with Django on my Dreamhost account. This short tutorial is intended to be the first of several related to Python and Django. [...]

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Qemu and DSL HD Install on a Thumbdrive

Saturday, May 17, 2008

This is something I’ve always thought would be useful- a small linux distro installed on a thumbdrive. I’m not talking about an in-memory install; not knoppix. I want to be able to boot from within windows, but still save my stuff to the thumbdrive. I’ve used MS Virtual PC and that works ok but I’ve [...]

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Configuring Pine with Fetchmail and Procmail on Cygwin

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

The previous post is fine if you just want to use pine with imap, but my real goal here is to use a new app I’ve been working on and to do that I’ll need fetchmail to retrieve my mail for me, instead of a built in pine imap or pop3 retriever. Fetchmail requires an [...]

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Mad Command Line Skillz

Friday, March 2, 2007

I’ve been working with shell scripts recently. The *NIX command line has some really powerful tools, but I’m afraid to say I’m starting to feel pretty comfortable in my Java IDE land, or in Python land, hell even in Ruby land. And going back to shell scripting has not been fun for me. A few [...]

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Ajaxterm: a web-enabled server terminal

Friday, March 2, 2007

Ever want to access your server, but that pesky firewall at work only allows web access? AjaxTerm is the answer. It is a python application that creates a virtual CONSOLE for the server it is installed on. It is simple to install and launch, you just need to configure a proxy in httpd.conf so you [...]

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Windows XP: Batch of Goodies

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

A couple of Windows batch files. Because sometimes while I’m at a Windows Console, I’m still thinking UNIX commands. Launching a graphical executable from the command line vi.bat @echo off start “title” /b “C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70\gvim.exe” %* Locating the executable in the classpath which.bat @ECHO OFF setlocal set DELAY=YES set DELAY=!DELAY! if “%DELAY%” == “YES” ( [...]

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RTC Core Competencies – Your “Console” of Choice

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Post ‘em here. rxvt -g +450+485 -fg green -bg black -fn ‘Courier New-20′ -sr -sl 3000 -cr green -e /bin/bash –login -i I use the following in my shortcut: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e /bin/bash –login -i And then I have this in my .Xresources (for rxvt) ! rxvt settings rxvt*font: 9×15 rxvt*cursorColor: MediumOrchid3 rxvt*background: grey15 rxvt*foreground: [...]

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