Scurvy Jake's Pirate Blog http://bogomip.net/blog Rated arrrr for Piracy Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:55:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 FailWiki http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/11/failwiki/ http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/11/failwiki/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:55:02 +0000 Scurvy Jake http://bogomip.net/blog/?p=4140 I just finished setting up a new instance of MediaWiki for an internal department. Everything went fine, the setup was straight forward. Except nobody could edit any pages. Even the front page.

Turns out the default values you get are garbage. Specifically, the memory usage. After enabling error logging (also off by default), I found that if you tried to edit a page, the wiki used up the default of 20Mb and halted, resulting in a blank screen any time you click an edit link on the wiki.

Once I figured this out and cranked up the memory limit, things started working fine. I'm just left wondering why the default settings cause the system to fail "out of the box."

]]> http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/11/failwiki/feed/ 0 Happy Birthday, Charlyn! http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/11/happy-birthday-charlyn/ http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/11/happy-birthday-charlyn/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:16:01 +0000 Scurvy Jake http://bogomip.net/blog/?p=4137 Today is my stepmother Charlyn's birthday. Just a couple days after mine, so it's not hard to remember. Happy birthday, I'm coming over for cake later! For some reason, I've been thinking this was on Friday, but when I looked at my calendar it said today.

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]]> http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/08/my-birthday/feed/ 0 Altered Art http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/08/altered-art/ http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/08/altered-art/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:18:50 +0000 Scurvy Jake http://bogomip.net/blog/?p=4133 Altered thrift-store art is too awesome to not post about! It makes me wish I had artistic talent!

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If Captain Ahab had been hunting the fail whale instead, that book would have been 15 pages long!

At least I got it to work manually…

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  • Onions and peppers are all cut up, ready for fajitas in 1 hour! #
  • NBC will only show highlights (if you're lucky) for some sports, but they'll show you the 50k x-country race all day. #BORING #
  • The fajitas were a huge hit. The hand-made tortillas were the icing on the cake, though! #
  • Returning a printer to HP that I got last week. :( #
  • Cracker's "Teen Angst" just came up on random play. Didn't realize how much I needed that song right now.. #musicmonday #
  • You can now place a preorder your @Boogie_Board at their site. Since I got mine last week, everyone that's played with it LOVES IT! #
  • I bought FIVE @rifftrax mp3s last night. I <3 movie riffing! #
  • Installing Untangle on a new test firewall machine. #
  • Untangle is now booting. So far so good. #
  • Why does loading BoingBoing SUCK UP my CPU cycles? #
  • Got a nice original fairy watercolor from @Tavisha. It will either be for Lorien or her friend, who loves fairies. #
  • Today @JhonenV revealed some interesting things about@richardhorvitz such as the origin of that dead child fused to his back.. in reply to JhonenV #
  • Remotely managing software on a SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. It's not real fun, but it's doable. Copying install DVDs up now. #
  • Thank goodness I have a 10 meg fiber connection.. #
  • Wonder how long it's going to take to tar and bzip2 a DVD image... #
  • Not to mention whether it's worth doing. I don't know how much space it will save. #
  • Burning in Apache mod_rewrite hell right now. Hey, at least it *can* be done.. #
  • Just bought tickets to #w00tstock Portland for May 8th. Thanks @paulandstorm! #
  • Ooh! Boost's new release last month finally has the UUID library! Yay! #
  • Exec wondering why our site loads slower than competitor. I say it's the 3.2Mb flash video, but no one believes me.. #
  • Today's wisdom: Good Design > More (bandwidth | memory | money | cpu speed) #
  • How do they make eggs with more vitamins? Injection? #
  • Just cracked a hard sudoku puzzle that's been bothering me for a couple of days. Success! #
  • News: Snow storms bad for unemployment. Me: Don't you mean employment? #
  • Had no idea @jimchines was here until @starshipsofa RT'd him. You should read his books, they're fun! #
  • RT @csts Ron Glass speaks about Book comic! http://bit.ly/
    aTKPn3 <- I'm totally geeking out about this! #
  • Monday is my birthday. I expect platypus-shaped pinatas and the cast of "The Safety Dance" video. Or at least the midget jester. #
    • ]]>     http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/07/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-03-07/feed/ 0     How Star Trek Should Have Ended http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/03/how-star-trek-should-have-ended/ http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/03/how-star-trek-should-have-ended/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:14:52 +0000 Scurvy Jake http://bogomip.net/blog/?p=4127 Ran across How It Should Have Ended recently, and thought I'd share this one:

    ]]>     http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/03/03/how-star-trek-should-have-ended/feed/ 0     The Alien Factor http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/02/28/the-alien-factor/ http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/02/28/the-alien-factor/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:09:59 +0000 Scurvy Jake http://bogomip.net/blog/?p=4125 I received my copy of Cinematic Titanic's The Alien Factor in the mail the other day. I watched it this morning since I was up early with little to do. The Alien Factor like East Meets Watts, is a "live show DVD," a recording of a live performance. I didn't think I'd like either as much as I did because of the laughing in the background, but it wasn't too bad. (In case you don't know, I have a strong aversion to laugh tracks.)

    In any case, The Alien Factor was a horribly low-budget film. In fact, I'd be surprised if it wasn't some amateur film school dropout project. A significant portion of the movie involved people walking around in the woods not saying anything!

    The plot (what there was of it) involves a crashed alien spacecraft that held dangerous biological entities the aliens intended to study. They are freed by the crash and begin terrorizing a small town. There was a ton of plaid and most of the pants flared out at the bottom (always funny!) and the acting was horrendous. The "hospital" scene was obviously a white sheet backdrop, and the sheriff's car had only two doors. A "state policeman" showed up in uniform driving a VW Beetle.

    The worst part, however, has to be the end, when we find out the guy helping to kill the monsters is actually himself an alien. The woman he's speaking to screams because he's hideous, and the sheriff shows up and blasts him with the shotgun and the film ends abruptly. While I enjoy this type of entertainment (well not the movie, but the riffing), I think I enjoyed East Meets Watts more than The Alien Factor.

    ]]>     http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/02/28/the-alien-factor/feed/ 0     Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-28 http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/02/28/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-28/ http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/02/28/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-28/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:03:00 +0000 Scurvy Jake http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/02/28/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-28/
  • Someone did something truly AWFUL in the men's bathroom. You could smell it IN THE HALLWAY! #
  • Then someone over-corrected by spraying half a can of Lysol. Now I can hardly breathe, but it smells slightly better. #
  • Lunch with a Cisco technician today. It's about time.. #
  • This is awesome: http://xkcd.com/705/ #
  • Oh yeah. New #CinematicTitanic release is mine! #
  • Bought Jeff lunch because it's his birthday. Woot! #
  • Think I just blew out the TCP/IP stack on my router. It choked while browsing web, downloading files, and copying a 1.2G file internally. #
  • I keep looking for pedobear in the audience at the Olympic figure skating rink.. #
  • Installing Ubuntu 9.10 x64 desktop in VMware Fusion. Hopefully my MUD development will continue in the virtual machine. #
  • I had no idea that 'port install meld' would take so long. How do people live without meld?? #
  • Woohoo! Another @wootoff!! #
  • Port is still fetching and building prereqs for meld... #
  • Reading about the Cassandra data model for next-gen databases. Interesting stuff. #
  • Seriously. Does meld really require so many prerequisites? Like gnome-keyring? GIVE ME TEH MELD!! #
  • Well that was a waste of 45 minutes. Meld won't install. #FAIL #
  • Hello, snow. Where have you been? #
  • Office meeting in 15 minutes. I'm not sure I'll finish anything I started today... #
  • News: Killer whale kills somebody. WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?? #
  • Meeting time. Not sure how many I've had this week, but the hour count is over 8.. #
  • Boss admitted to blowing off my proposed solution email last night. Turns out I was right after all. #vindicated #
  • Good news: @InvaderCon is 1 year, 1 month, and 1 day away #
  • When my Tatung rice cooker dies I will get very choked up. Seriously, there could be tears! #
  • Happy gorram birthday @adamsbaldwin! #
  • Just finished cutting up 4.5 pounds of chicken. Into the fajita marinade with you, chicken! This is going to be soooooo good. #
    • ]]>     http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/02/28/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2010-02-28/feed/ 0     No Post All Week? http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/02/27/no-post-all-week/ http://bogomip.net/blog/2010/02/27/no-post-all-week/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:06:46 +0000 Scurvy Jake http://bogomip.net/blog/?p=4122 Wow, I think this is one of the longest periods of time I've not written anything here on the blog. Even on vacation, I manage to write a few posts and add some pictures. I guess it's been stressful lately.

    Today I'm focused on relaxing and winding down. We're hosting family dinner tomorrow night, and we're making fajitas for Ronnie (it's his birthday dinner). They are delicious, and this time we're adding in homemade flour tortillas, it's going to be awesome!

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