This is for Ubuntu 8.10 Server

I’m not sure if this is an “Ubuntu Gotcha’ ” or not, but adding htaccess and htpasswd protection to folders was slightly different than other distro’s I’ve used.

Most distros have you edit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or /etc/apache/httpd.conf and allow to appropriate folder access, like so:

<Directory "/www/">

AllowOverride All

</Directory>

This is NOT the file you edit with Ubuntu, you actually edit “/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default” and use your AllowOverride in there. After you set that restart Apache your htaccess and htpasswd files should be seen and used now.

Like I said, I may be off on this, but I think this is one of those “Ubuntuisims” and I couldn’t find much documentation out there on it.

Hopefully this can help someone one day.

Laurie, Al, Jon N, Mark M, Kevin M and his fiance Ronnie, Linda K, and Joe K, all ran the Super 5k race today in Narragansett RI.  I was going to run the race but, I ended up getting a chest cold so I decided to go and take pictures insted.  The weather was beautiful, 40+ degrees in Febuary in New England is rairity, and the sun on top of it made for beautiful running weather.

Onto the photos:

http://rearsync.com/photography/?Album=Super_5k

Went out this past Monday and got a few shots of the Subies playing in the snow. Rico snapped the ones of the Forester for me, thanks Rico.

Check ‘em out here:

http://rearsync.com/photography/?Album=suby_snow

Added a new shoot - My company’s annual holiday party.

Lot’s of fun, and lots of pic’s for your enjoyment.

Enjoy.

http://rearsync.com/photography/?Album=VS%20Holiday%20Party%2009

p.s. the new PC did an impeccable job at processing the 230 RAW pics, I was able to export 163 pic’s in under 2 minutes!  (That would have taken about 30-45 mins on my Mac )

Well I got myself a new video card, an HIS IceQ4 HD 4850 Turbo from Microcenter, and while I was there, I also picked up a 1TB Seagate HD as well. I’m now rocking the 1TB HD with 32mb cache/3gbs and life is much quiter than my old Western Digital 74GB raptor 10,000 rpm HD.   I threw in the video card and was blown away by the graphics on Crysis; I know ‘blown away’ isnt much of a benchmark but I figured it was something, maybe I’ll post up 3dmark scores later.

I also downloaded Windows 7 tonight as well to see what that’s like.  Tommrow I will install it and see how she goes.  And after that I will OF COURSE be putting Ubuntu 64bit on and see whats up with that with my 8gb or RAM.

’till then!

-Nick

My main desktop PC for the past 3.5 years was an ‘old’ AMD 4000+, 2gb RAM, on an ASUS A8N Premium mobo, rocking an nVidia 7800 GTX 256mb video card.  I had originally built it as a gaming PC which did the job for games like Oblivion, Battlefield 2 etc, but around this past xmas, my power supply, an OCZ 520w (can’t remember the model name) shit the bed.  Luckily OCZ has an awesome warranty and honored my PS’s untimely death and actually sent out a brand new 600 watt one, which BTW, is MUCH quieter than my old one, so GOOD ON OCZ, and good on my ears and sanity since Laurie is not complaining about the ‘noise’.

When I had the downtime on my desktop when waiting for OCZ to send me out another (about 4 weeks), I started to think of upgrading it.  I poked around at some C2D’s but for some reason the Intel Core2Quad q6600 caught my eye due to its a.) sub $200 price point and b.) overclocking capabilities.  Joe said that if you compare it to the same prices C2D, than I would get slower results with the C2Quad; which may be true, but I still think that 4 cores is better than two, especially since VM’s will be involved here, but then again, when it comes to OC’ing in the future, anything can run at 3ghz.

So I decided the q6600 was for me, and I put in an order to newegg for the q6600 proc/fan, a Gigabyte ED45-UD3R, and 8gb of OCZ F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ RAM, which I placed on a Tuesday and was here that Thursday — salute to Newgg.  Well it got here tonight and I was in a dilema.  I bought 8gb ram, and Windows XP 32(not that I use windows that much at least) will only support 3.2 gb or something like that.  I was using Ubuntu as my primary OS FYI.  However, I decided that to utilize the full 8gb I would need a true 64 bit OS, so I decided to give Vista 64 a shot, and I installed it tonight.   I have to say, its actually not that bad, and its pretty fast with this hardware.  I’m not even OC’ing yet and it flies.

Why the hell did I try Vista over Ubuntu?  Well one of the reason’s I wanted 8gb of ram and C2Quad is for photo work; I’m not talking about making web graphics in photoshop but real deal processing with Lightroom and Photoshop with 8+ gb of RAW files from d300 at a time.  My Macbook Pro C2D 2.16 was just not up to the task anymore.  Also I wanted to give PC gaming another shot and though it was high time to upgrade the PC first and buy the graphics card later.  I’m thinking of an hd4850 btw.  But that doesnt mean I wont still use Ubuntu most of the time :)  Just that Vista fits the bill for those two main things I built this PC for.

I’m still sitting here thinking, Why the F*** did I just install Vista on this box, and what the F*** am I doing?  Well, it’s not as bad as I remember ( pre-release/beta days of Vista) and its actually usable, its no Linux, but Linux is no Windows either.  I’m going to replace this HD soon so that will mean a new OS install as well, maybe I’ll give Windows 7 a shot and see how that goes.  Who knows?

Still can’t belive I’m running Vista.

Shoot me.

Sometimes I find myself needing to get a file off of a box in a timely manner, but I dont really feel like playing with SCP or FTP.  I know, I know, I just wrote a post about how awesome SCP is, but sometimes I just need the file right NOW

We could use ‘nail’ very easily for this, but of most of the boxes I have to use lately only have sendmail available.  Since sendmail doesn’t have an explicit ‘attachment’ option like nail does, it can still be done, and heres how. You ‘cat’ out a file and pipe it through uuencode (you remember that right? )  and then out through sendmail.  This also works great in a shellscript.

Example:

File I want is -

filename.pgp

Run the command like this.

cat filename.pgp | uuencode filename.pgp | sendmail mcnooby@n00b.com

Shortly you should have an email in your email box (assuming the spam filter doesn’t get it first) with your filename as an attachment.  By default the email will be from your_username@hostname, if you want to change this you can use the ‘-f’ flag with sendmail.  You can even set your sendmail up to relay if you really want to get fancy.  I’m still trying to figure out how to get a message body, since this method will only allow me just to attach a file.  As always check out ~# man sendmail for all the other fun stuff.

Have fun, remember this is a very simple way to use it, so play around and do fun stuff.  And respect & <3 the |  .

Nick

Updated the page a little.

Played around with the Word Press database and was able to extract some recent post info for use on the front page. I have no idea what I’m going to do with this site; if anything it will probably turn into a cavalcade of crap.

Stay tuned…

Got to get a file to another host quickly and easily? All you have open between the two hosts is SSH ?  SCP to the rescue.  SCP is part of the SSH suite, and unlike FTP, its a secure, encrypted protocol.   Here are two command that will get you using it in notime.

// This will upload some file from your local machine to a remote computer

~# scp <local_file> user@hostname:<remote_file_destination>

ex.

~# scp filename.txt n00b@mcn00b.net:/home/n00b

// This will allow you to get a file from a remote host to your machine

~# scp user@remotehost:<remote_filename> <local_filename>

ex.

~# scp n00b@mcn00b.net:/home/n00b/filename.txt filename.txt

You can also do entire directory’s by adding the -r flag.

This is a very useful command, especially if you have SSH keys setup between your two machines.  I’ll write a post about setting up ssh keys in a future post.

As always, man scp for more info.

John Duksta setup a build of the Conway’s game of Life at the January 2009 DC401 meetup.

Very fun stuff, we had to build a 4×4 LED matrix device that when hooked up to other devices that other made, allows the game to play out. We only got 6 of them going, but there should be a few more being added in the coming days, and it should be on display in the front window at the AS220 shortly.

Check out some pics of it here:
http://rearsync.com/photography/?Album=DC401%20Conways%20Game%20of%20Life