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Comment on DIY DDNS by David Paul Ellenwood

David Paul Ellenwood — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:53:18 +0000

Love it! Thank you! Works great with ddclient on Ubuntu: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ddclient

Comment on DIY DDNS by trying it

trying it — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:09:12 +0000

Tried this using a DLink DIR-615 and it doesn’t seem to be working. Although the error may have nothing to do with the router. Right after I created the user/pass for apache when trying to browse to that directory I am prompted for a user/pass but on entering them I get get a server error 500.

What file permissions are needed on all the various parts?
in ~/ these two files have
-rw——- 17 2012-01-27 02:36 .ddns-api-key
-rw——- 41 2012-01-27 02:39 .ddns.htpasswd

The domain directory has this
drwxr-xr-x 2012-01-27 02:40 my_domain.com/

The script directory has
drwxr-xr-x 2012-01-27 02:44 dyndns/

And inside that direcotry there is
-rw-r–r– 2011-04-26 23:19 index.cgi
-rw-r–r– 266 2012-01-27 02:35 .htaccess

I verified that the AuthUserFile is updated to the right home directory for .ddns.htpasswd

Any help on that error 500 wuold be helpful. Additionally do I need to set execute permission on the cgi? I’m not Python literate and I’m weak on Apache

Comment on jQuery selector escaping by rees

rees — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:15:31 +0000

Great function, this has made it to my util library

Comment on LXC on Ubuntu 11.04 Server by Alan Boudreault

Alan Boudreault — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:22:05 +0000

Thanks, works like a charm on natty. Good starting point!

Comment on Simply logging JavaScript calls. by Kieren Evans

Kieren Evans — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:20:19 +0000

Can you not just set a breakpoint in the js debugger in firebug/chrome dev tools and follow the calls though you get the arguments and ability to live edit code/variables!

Comment on Showing git status in my Zsh prompt by cavokz

cavokz — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:13:29 +0000

Nice job Gio, unfortunately it’s a bit too slow to give the prompt back on a kernel-size git repository

Comment on Tracking WordPress using Git by Ian McKellar

Ian McKellar — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:30:06 +0000

@Jerry,

I’m not sure what the best approach to that would be – perhaps maintaining a wp-content directory template (with the right plugins & themes in there) would be your best bet.

With WordPress’s new upgrade system I’ve given up on maintaining the source in git.

Comment on Tracking WordPress using Git by Jerry Lee

Jerry Lee — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:13:11 +0000

I am wondering if you would know how to create a custom WordPress installation ( with custom plugins/themes/directories ), and store it on GIT, so I can grab it from command line, and not have to install all the plugins/theme and make all the settings every time?

Comment on LXC on Ubuntu 11.04 Server by Peter

Peter — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:45:29 +0000

checkpoint, freeze and unfreeze weren’t even begun implementation last I looked.

LXC, once you dig into it, is sort of frighteningly duct taped together. That’s not to say it’s a terrible idea, but it’s a project that is iteratively approaching an abstraction, not one that starts with strong fundamentals and is building out functionality.

Comment on LXC on Ubuntu 11.04 Server by Matt Franz

Matt Franz — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:11:40 +0000

Nice blog. Wish I’d seen it an hour ago because I just finished getting it working (although it really is suprisingly easy) going back and forth between the Debian and Ubuntu LXC wiki pages.