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My new “E” and kayaks

michael — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:31:36 +0000

I have had my 2006 Element for about 4 months and hadn’t posted anything about it - it is definitely a cool vehicle that will get lots of good use

I got a little Pelican Burst for Christmas, and a couple days ago we bought a Apex 129T to go along with it. Michelle is going down to the beach this weekend, and I am in Chicago for PyCon2008, so we loaded up the boats on Wednesday before I left for the airport - they both fit (whew..)

Ah, to be a parent..

michael — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:34:17 +0000

Got a note from Roxane’s teacher (and asked for permission to post the note publicly) about a couple behavior issues. I thought this was just too cute to pass up sharing.

“Mr. and Mrs. Shuler.

I have had many discussions with Roxane about bathroom behavior. It is important that she go right away and come out in a timely manner. Each time I send her she talks to friends and waits for the stall she wants. We are often late for PE or music because we are waiting for her. This has been going on for a few days now so I thought I’d let you know. Also she was redirected today for chasing a boy around the room. He said she was trying to kiss him.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

L. Arguello”

Roxane and I did talk about these issues. And giggled. She likes the big stall. He tried to kiss her first.

Austin Marathon

michael — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:05:21 +0000

Michelle and Kerry ran the half-marathon in about 2 hours 17 minutes - congrats on finishing! I am proud of you both

29 Aquarii

michael — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:35:30 +0000

A new meme..

Thanks Darrell, Eric, and Kelley

Step 1: Go to Wikipediaâ€™s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band.
Step 2: Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of the last quote is the album title.
Step 3: Go to Flickrâ€™s Interesting photo page. Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.

Zenoss Install on Debian Etch

michael — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:02:13 +0000

Just a quick cheat-sheet for myself:

# aptitude install mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev python-dev build-essential swig autoconf snmp bind9-host python-setuptools # adduser zenoss # mkdir /usr/local/zenoss # chown zenoss /usr/local/zenoss # su - zenoss


$ vi ~/.bashrc    # add a few env vars:
export ZENHOME=/usr/local/zenoss

export PYTHONPATH=$ZENHOME/lib/python

export PATH=$ZENHOME/bin:$PATH
$ source ~/.bashrc

$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/zenoss/zenoss-2.1.2-0.tar.gz

$ tar xzf zenoss-2.1.2-0.tar.gz

$ cd zenoss-2.1.2/

$ ./install.sh    # logout as zenoss

# chown root:zenoss /usr/local/zenoss/bin/zensocket # chmod 04750 /usr/local/zenoss/bin/zensocket

http://hostname:8080/zport/dmd

as the zenoss user to {start|stop|restart|status|list} the zenoss services:
$ $ZENHOME/bin/zenoss start $ $ZENHOME/bin/zenoss status ...

Read zenoss-2.1.2/INSTALL.txt for further notes on sysctl settings, etc.. Other configurations *should* be done in a production environment - this was only a quick scratch install for testing.

Birthday Wish from Dave

michael — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:50:25 +0000

Happy Happy Happy Birthday!!!!!!

A Big 6!

michael — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:00:58 +0000

Roxane is 6 years old today! Happy Birthday, Roxy.

Debhelper >=6

michael — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:27:02 +0000

I have been working on my first couple perl module packages with the Debian Perl Group, and a change of debhelper to version 6 in [pkg]/debian/compat and building on Etch (version 5) gave me a few problems.. A bit of help from Roberto got me pointed in the right direction - this works:

$ cd [pkg] $ svn-buildpackage –svn-dont-clean –svn-builder=”pdebuild –use-pdebuild-internal”

Kind Regards.

Burra Sahib

michael — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:19:41 +0000

One of my heroes has passed. Sir Edmund Hillary was a humble and honorable man who dedicated many years helping the people of Nepal build schools and medical clinics - a much grander accomplishment than any mountain.

Blog Spam Trap

michael — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:38:57 +0000

I went from 100’s of blog spams a week to under 10 in the last week with a simple .htaccess addition:

# begin spammer SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^TrackBack/*" spammer=yes Order allow,deny allow from all deny from env=spammer # end spammer

This catches an evil little script with a UserAgent of “TrackBack/1.02″ that has been hitting from many IP addresses - I would guess that this UserAgent has been uploaded to vulnerable workstations or servers and acts as a bot-net..