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SqueezeCenter + Hardy

I upgraded my Ubuntu boxes to 8.04 last night and ran into but one issue: my SlimServer (now SqueezeCenter) would not start. Apparently I’m not the only one with this problem, and solution for now is to jam some more lines into your /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld 

/var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/ r,
/var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/my.cnf r,
/var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/mysql.startup rw,
/var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/mysql-error-log.txt rw,
/var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/squeezecenter-mysql.pid w,
/var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/squeezecenter-mysql.sock w,
/var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/MySQL/ r,
/var/lib/squeezecenter/cache/MySQL/** rwk,

According to the bug report, the installer is fixed in trunk, so with the next release (7.0.1?) this won’t be an issue.

Congrats to the Ubuntu guys for such a seamless upgrade! It was really smooth.

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Computers

Commands

My contribution to the meme:

blowery@hermes:~$ history 1000 | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
170 cd
78 ls
55 sudo
31 svn
18 scons
18 nm
12 less
9 grep
8 rm
8 make

As for why these, here are some rough guesses:

cd
obviously we use a lot of directories and I end up moving around quite a bit.
ls
implicitly tied to cd usage I think. And I have a lousy memory for what file names in what dirs.
sudo
This meme caught me while I was setting up a new working vm instance, hence all the sudo. Normally, I don’t think I use it quite so much.
svn
svn is our source control management tool of choice
scons
scons is our build tool of choice
nm
nm lists the exported symbols in a library. I was tracking down a problem with MySQL and a broken exported symbol during the aforementioned instance install.
less
less is my pager of choice
grep
handy for finding things
rm

handy for removing things. I think this was related to MySQL causing me grief
make
everyone else’s built tool of choice and I was installing a lot of everyone else’s stuff
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That random castle on the island in the Hudson (Bannerman’s)

Bannerman’s Island

There’s this ruined castle on an island just north of Cold Spring that I always wanted to get out and photograph, but never got the chance. However, I found an excellent write-up of what it is (Bannerman’s Island Arsenal), along with some wonderful photos by Shaun O’Boyle (buy here). Definitely worth a read and a look, and possibly a visit if you’re in the area.

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Design

Painting with rainbows

Crayons

Wow. All 120 colors of Crayola crayons, with hex codes. Awesome.

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Etc

Making cmd.exe pretty

Ah, finally. After years suffering with Lucida Console or that nasty raster font, there’s a way to switch to a decent monospaced font, Consolas, in the Windows cmd.exe windows.