sudo apt-get install puppet
sudo chown puppet:puppet /var/lib/puppet


They are making an announcement on August 3rd in New York 1PM EDT and I’m wondering if it’ll be a fork of the OpenSolaris project. This would be great because of how slow the OpenSolaris releases were coming out. Hopefully we’ll have an exciting announcement other than just “we are forking OpenSolaris”. News about the announcement be will on the illumos wiki.

Here are some things I would like to see if they do fork:

1. Desktop, server, and “home file server” editions.
2. ZFS version updated to the release with deduplication.
3. New and improved package manager.
4. Easy community involvement with a rockstar community manager.
5. Package installations from the website.
6. Support service plans.
7. Public road map.

that’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Obviously, almost all of these will probably not happen but one can dream .

Here are the applications I’ve put on it:

1. Aldiko
2. android VNC
3. ConnectBot
4. doubleTwist
5. Gesture Search
6. Google Goggles
7. K-9 Mail
8. Google Listen
9. Mint.com
10. mustard
11. Remote RDP Lite

For example,

String temp = “yo”;

yo += ” yo”;

Now you would think it would just append the second ” yo” to the end of temp, but what happens is that a new string is created and then everything is copied into it. This gets messy if you put the yo += “yo”; in a loop.

For StringBuilder and StringBuffer, it will just append the ” yo” to the StringBuilder object in a faster and space efficient setting. If you hit the end of the size of the StringBuilder, it’ll just increase the size automatically.

capi_get_sensors() failed, status = -1

Haven’t figured out the problem yet.

So far, this game is really fun. I’m only on level 5 in easy section and I’m enjoying it. Unlike the previous game, you use a hammer to break out blocks to get the 3d shape of the object we are finding. It passes the time very fast and it’s not as frustrating yet so I may change my tune when I get into the medium/hard section of this game. Thumbs up so far though.

Dell ST2410 Monitor

Pros:

1. HDMI, vga, and DVI ports.
2. 1080p resolution
3. $189 when I purchased it.
4. Audio in and audio out plug.
5. If you connect a device, like a PS3 to the hdmi port and tell it pass audio through, it will go out the audio out plug. So I have a set of computer speakers connected with the standard 35mm jack into the Audio out plug on the monitor and a 35mm cable from my computer to the audio in. When I’m in vga mode it will take the audio from my computer, but when I move it to the hdmi mode, it gets the audio from the PS3 through my computer speakers! Total win!
6. Works fine in Ubuntu through the VGA port at 1080p resolution. Not sure why but the DVI only worked on the Windows 7 box.

Cons:

1. Doesn’t come with a height adjustable stand.

ps axl | grep D
F   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI    VSZ   RSS WCHAN  STAT TTY        TIME COMMAND
1     0  2397     1  16   0   1672     8 sync_p D    ?          2:07 /pkg/lbcd/current/sbin/lbcd

So far it doesn’t affect the Intel machines we have, but that could be because regular users can’t log into them. If I find the reason, I’ll be sure to post it up here

pssc -u supervisor -F pwfile -e 1 192.0.2.2 cifs-share add ryan filesystem \\path\\to\\share\\ryan

This works great if you got a list of users and their cifs share names. The nice thing on our NetApp FAS940 was that there was cifs_homedir.cfg where you can edit the locations of where the cifs home directories would be exported on and it would automatically do it to any of the folders in it.

I found that if I killed the process straight up, nothing would happen. But if I killed the pid like so:

kill 3560

And then do a strace on it:

strace -p 3560

It would end up killing the process for me!