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Thursday, February 9. 2006

Zend Studio 5 subversion using keychain on Mac OS X

The following article explains how to setup ssh-agent and keychain as well as creating a wrapper script so you can make use of the ZendStudioClient-5.1.0 subversion features over a svn+ssh:// type connection on Mac OS X 10.4.

Background

PHP is my scripting language of choice. Normally I will find open source solutions for all my tools. My PHP IDE is the one place I stray from this path. After trying Zend Studio years ago, I was hooked. Studio has only improved and Zend added ~~subversion~~ version control support in the 4.x line, but I had never set it up until ugprading to ZendStudioClient-5.1.0.

Since the repository I will be using is a private one and due to security concerns, I use the svn+ssh:// protocol to move files in and out of subversion from my workstation. When you try to use this natively in Zend Studio you get several Permission Denied errors followed by a failure to run the subversion command.

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Tuesday, January 17. 2006

Educate Yourself And Preserve Your Rights

Living in a democratic society means that we have the right and obligation to define our rights, as well as balance those rights against our need for a functioning society. If we do not value our freedoms then people and corporations with more interest in our rights (and money) will define what our freedoms will be.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered. - Dorothy Thompson courtesy of Wizdom Quotes

Really we can condense the whole argument into the following three points.

If we do not appreciate our rights and fight for them, we will lose them.
We cannot appreciate our rights, if we do not know what they are.
We cannot fight for our rights, if we are not aware of current issues.

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Sunday, January 15. 2006

KitKat - Beyond Chocolate

My wife recently returned from visiting family in Japan. As is her usual, she brought back quite a few edible treats. One of the things she had brought back was a bunch of KitKat bars. Much to my surprise and delight, the flavor selection was much more diverse in Japan.

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Posted by Dan Daggett in Japan at 17:02 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Monday, December 12. 2005

Wired - Firefox Must Have Plugins

In case you didn't catch the Wired article, it had links to some pretty handy plugins.

With the release of the new version 1.5 of Firefox, there's never been a better time to download the open-source browser, take it for a drive, kick the tires and see what it can do. In the case of a browser, mainly what it can do is show you web pages, hopefully quickly. So the real satisfaction comes from finding enhancements and add-ons, because you can only have so much fun timing page loads with a stopwatch. Fortunately, Firefox is famous for its pluggable extensions architecture, which allows you to download little snippets of code that act as the software equivalent of small consumer electronics devices, only they are free.

If you are too lazy to read the article, here are a few of the more useful extensions spotlighted.

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Tuesday, December 6. 2005

Foxpose

Found this firefox plugin the other day. Can be pretty useful for visually looking at all your open tabs. Foxpose allows you to do an Exposé type feature with your open tabs.

The Viamatic foXpose plugin is a tiny little extension that lets you view all your tabs inside a browser window. This extension will only work on Firefox 1.5 or higher . You can get more information about this extension on mozilla.org

They have another cool extension on the same page that gives you a thumbnail, of the page loading, in the tab. Site Link

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Sunday, December 4. 2005

Technology vs. Nature

Interesting article. With all the current day use of technology its nice to see that we haven't completely forgotten about nature.

Trained wasps could someday replace dogs for sniffing out drugs, bombs and bodies. No kidding. Scientists say a species of non-stinging wasps can be trained in only five minutes and are just as sensitive to odors as man's best friend, which can require up to six months of training at a cost of about $15,000 per dog.

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Tuesday, October 25. 2005

Photo Album

Finally reposted some of my old pictures. I have the pics from my vacation to Japan online. I haven't put comments on it, but that is the next step. I've got to say Gallery 2 is a very nice improvement over the original Gallery. They have put a lot of work into making a nice fluid interface and an installer that just about anybody could handle. Link to my photo album.

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Thursday, July 28. 2005

Off to see the wizard

Taking off to the wonderful world of Vegas today. It's only Defcon, now calm down sir. Assume full details will be posted in the next year or so. =)

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Monday, July 25. 2005

Sushi

I also enjoy creating sushi. Sushi is very fun and challenging for a culinary creation artist. To create successful sushi you have to work with taste, texture, and of course the visual aspect. Although I do enjoy raw fish, for the sake of my less adventurous friends and family everything below is made with cooked ingredients.

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Life through the eyes of my belly

Chicken Cacciatore

A wonderful meal of chicken, tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, and garlic served over pasta. A very hearty dish with goes very well with thinly sliced garlic french bread.

Gyudon

A Japanese dish of simmered beef with eggs, scallions, shoyu, sugar, and sake served over rice. Shown in this picture with a bowl of miso soup.

Sukiyaki

One of my favorite Japanese dishes. Sukiyaki is a Japanese one pot meal in which you simmer vegetables and beef in a broth of shoyu, sake, water, and sugar. This is a very delicious dish and a nice introduction to Japanese cooking.

Salmon w/ milk gravy and vegetables

My friend Travis made this dish for my wife and I. It was so tasty I had to obtain the recipe. Travis' version used halibut while I used salmon. Both dishes are very rich and savory.

Tangerine Glazed Pork

I made this for Easter dinner, courtesy of foodnetwork.com. I baked the pork loin in my oven after treating it with herbs and tangerine juice. I then basted it in the tangerine juice while it was cooking to create a very delicous tangerine carmelized coating. This was served with stuffed eggplant and carrots that baked with the pork.

Grilled Salmon

I got this recipe from a cookbook my friend Travis gave me. The salmon was coated with spices of varying heats and flavors then drizzled in sesame oil. I then grilled it (in a pan) and served it with vegetables and rice. The vegetables in this dish are eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, and zuchini.

Posted by Dan Daggett in Food at 19:36

Tuesday, February 1. 2005

Qemu USB Pen Drive Computer

If you have not heard of Qemu before, visit their website. They have a very slick CPU/System emulator that runs on a variety of platforms (Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac),Qemu is able to emulate many different architectures but I was most interested in emulating an Intel i386 platform. Using Qemu I created a 500MB harddisc image on which I installed FreeBSD and the following packages: Apache, Perl5.8, MySQL 4.1, PHP 5.x, and a variety of extensions for PHP.

I put this image in a directory along with startup scripts for Windows and Linux, the Qemu executables for Linux and Windows, and the BIOS and VGABIOS images. This all went on to my new USB pen drive and I now have a portable BSD installation.

You can use Samba/SMB sharing to allow access from the Qemu machine to the host system which allows you to run local file through the Apache/PHP server on the pen drive. This makes the development environment very portable.

Read below for installation steps and instructions.

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Posted by Dan Daggett in Technology :: Unix at 09:59 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Monday, January 31. 2005

Adding a New Harddrive

I recently bought a Dell Poweredge 420SC. This introductory server comes with a 2 channel SATA controller. After I bought the server I added a new 160GB drive to my configuration. I am running Fedora Core 3. First thing I checked was to make sure that the new hdd was recognized.

# fdisk -l

After I saw that it was found and listed as being on /dev/sdb I initialized and partitioned the drive.

# fdisk /dev/sdb

Using the menus I created a new primary partition that was the full size of the drive. Next I prepared the file system for use.

# mkfs -m 0 -j /dev/sdb1

Then I mounted it and made sure that I could write to it.

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/storage # touch /mnt/storage/test

Last I added the following entry to /etc/fstab so it was mounted everytime I booted.

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/storage ext3 defaults 1 2

Posted by Dan Daggett in Technology :: Unix at 18:59

Monday, September 13. 2004

Sushi Party

So I went to a sushi party at my good friend RDs house weekend before last. He posted some pictures from the experience. I was a bit dissapointed because they didn't get any pictures of me cooking up sukiyaki, but there was plenty of sake so all is forgiven. Thanks RD.

Posted by Dan Daggett in Food at 16:05

Tuesday, September 7. 2004

Gmail Fun

I have been using my Gmail account alot lately. Despite some concerns by the Internet community in general, I find that Gmail pushes the boundries of email as we know it. I have been using email for many years now and this is the first time I have ever used a program that changed email organization and management in such radical ways. Now while the Evolution email client that I use does do message threading I am still stuck only being able to categorize each message once (IMAP folders) while with Gmail I can do this as many times as I want (labels). Why Gmail Matters? Extend Gmail beyond its web interface.

Posted by Dan Daggett in Technology :: Internet at 18:58

Wednesday, August 4. 2004

Windows Password Recovery

I recently purchased two Dell Poweredge 2650 servers for my work. The campus I work on runs mostly (all?) Microsoft software so I went through my usual routine of adding Terminal Services (Remote Desktop), IIS, network monitor, running Windows Update, and changing the administrator password. Last night, two weeks later, I booted one of them up to move over the data from the old server. As soon as I did I realized that I didn't know the password that I had set for the administrator account. After a bit of Googling around I found a page with several different solutions including a very nice solution in the form of a mini Mandrake distribution that fits on a floppy disc.

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Posted by Dan Daggett in Technology :: Windows at 21:37

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