March, 2010

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Mar 10

4 Dimensional Game promises to be a mind-frak

I came across this earlier this morning on XKCD and while there is very little information on the developers site at the minute, I’ll be coughing up for it regardless.

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Mar 10

Kids Sing Portal “Still Alive”

The Gifford Children’s Choir performs “Still Alive” by Jonathan Coulton.

I freaking love this song, and there’s something reassuring that in years to come kids will be singing songs from video games about science instead of nursery rhymes about war and disease, and violent chants.

PS, JC is coming back to do the music for Portal 2, which look brilliant since they’re letting you ‘out of the lab’.

PPS, one of the best viral marketing/augmented reality campaigns I’ve ever seen…

Update (31/3/10) Fixed youtube embedding

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Mar 10

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Mar 10

WordPress category page

So, a while ago I started  personal logbook and wanted a way to keep those posts off the main blog (while still appearing in the RSS and twitter feeds).

Long story short, Blog-in-blog gets a given category off the main blog, and with thinks to the wordpress.org support forum I was directed to the Page Links To plugin, which added the necessary navigational behaviour.

Job Done!

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26
Mar 10

What to do when Ubuntu Device-mapper seems to be invincible!

I’ve been trying a dozen different configurations of my 2x500GB SATA drives over the past few days involving switching between ACHI/IDE/RAID in my bios (This was after trying different things to solve my problems with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx) ; After each attempt I’ve reset the bios option, booted into a live CD, deleting partitions and rewriting partition tables left on the drives.

Now, however, I’ve been sitting with a /dev/mapper/nvidia_XXXXXXX1 that seems to be impossible to kill!

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24
Mar 10

My Experience with Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx

Updates(26/3/10): Thought I’d give the liveCD another go (this time using the dailyx64 image and using unetbootin), thinking it must be something simple; so during boot i just kept pressing escape, before the splash screen came up. This got me around the splash screen issue and it seems as if everything is fine. Also, I found a matching bug report on launchpad, but no resolution as of yet. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Updates(25/3/10): With the greatest thanks to the guys at serverfault, I’ve still not been able to fix this issue, and will be lodging a bug report to launchpad whenever I get a chance

I’m a big Ubuntu fan; have been since my first Dapper Drake install, but I have never had such weirdness as I’ve had so far with Lucid.
I am at a loss to explain or even describe the trouble I’ve had with this.

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24
Mar 10

Entry 0

So in a continuing effort to be more productive, I’m segregating off a section of the blog for ‘My Diary’.

I used to keep a diary, which has long since been lost in the ether, and I have been reticent to have too much personal or off-topic stuff on the main page, so why not put it here!

Well, we’ll see how it goes.

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Mar 10

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Mar 10

Chmod on lots of files

My lil-NAS has plenty of space but is maddeningly underpowered.

I came across a permissions issue where, depending on how the files in question got there, they would not be accessible to my windows boxes because they were owned by root (I have no doubt that its my fault!)

So, first attempt was nice and easy.

$chown -R smbusr:smbusr *

But this was taking a horrific amount of time, so I thought “There must be a better way”.

Chown does whatever you tell it to do, whether its needed or not. So why not check that first with ‘find’.

$find . -user badnastyawkwarduser -exec chown -R smbusr:smbusr {} \;

and it worked brilliantly!

If you have any shortcuts, let me know in the comments!

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Mar 10

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