Audi’s Toy Car for the Big Boys

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Max

Man this thing is cool – to bad I’m not 11 with a huge trust fund.

Take the nostalgic design of a 30s grand prix racer in 1:2 scale, a part car-fanaticism and mix it together with a lithium-ion electric motor and you get a powerful toy car for kids of all ages including those experienced driver that are still young at heart. Audi’s Auto Union Type C e-tron is made of aluminum with a carbon-look finish and provides a seat for drivers up to 1.80 meters in height, who then will be offered a top speed of close 19 mph and 44.25 lb-ft of torque for a rejuvenating journey of almost 16 miles.

via Audi’s Toy Car for the Big Boys | Gentleman’s Gadgets | The Source of Inspiration for Modern Men.

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Sharing a Screen Session

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Max

Let’s assume that I elubow want to share my console with jdoe. The easiest way to do this next part is to actually name your screen session. So let’s call our session test.

$ screen -S test

This will create the session and put you in it. Now we need to add the access control. Note: You can automate the multiuser piece by adding it to you .screenrc.

CTRL-A
:multiuser on

CTRL-A
:acladd jdoe

All jdoe has to do now is connect to the same machine and type the following command:

$ screen -x elubow/test   # $user/$session_name

There are other security combinations as the above gives jdoe full access. Here are a few common ones:

:aclchg user +rx  # Give ‘user’ read-only access
:aclchg user -x “#,at,aclchg,acladd,acldel,quit”  # Don’t allow ‘user’ any of the previous commands
:aclchg user +rwx  # Give ‘user’ read-write access (open permission on the session)

via Sharing a Screen Session | Erics Tech Blog.

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Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code « Steve Blank

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Max

Awesome advice for non-technical managers.

My suggestion to my friend? Given how dynamic and competitive the market is, this move is a company-killer. The heuristic should be don’t rewrite the code base in businesses where time to market is critical and customer needs shift rapidly.”

via Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code « Steve Blank.

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Nagios notify-by-campfire Plugin | Erics Tech Blog

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Max

Found a great howto to send Nagios notifications to Campfire via the Tender GEM. Required some minor tweaks to support the current software versions – but very simple to integrate. I’ll probably use this as a base to integrate notification for all my internal apps/scripts.

via Nagios notify-by-campfire Plugin | Erics Tech Blog.

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Speed up a slow Terminal by clearing log files

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Max

Terminal has been getting slower and slower for me on launch. For whatever reason this morning I finally spent a couple of minutes on Google and came across this gem:

Speed up a slow Terminal by clearing log files.

In short:

cd /private/var/log/asl/
ls *.asl
sudo rm !$

This clears out OSX’s system logs and results in an instant launch of terminal again.

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People are Awesome

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Max

The girl on the bike with training wheels was my favorite.

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Download Files Using cURL

Posted on November 13, 2010 by Max

If you don’t have wget/fetch available just use cURL.

$ curl -L -O <URL>

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How Companies are Bypassing the IRS

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Max

It’s simple actually, all it takes is some time and a desire to do it.

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MongoDB: Handling Master Crashes in Master/Slave Setups « myNoSQL

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Max

MongoDB: Handling Master Crashes in Master/Slave Setups « myNoSQL.

  • remove the lock file
  • start mongod with --repair
  • after the repair is complete, then you can restart mongod
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    HOWTO Configure Unix ODBC

    Posted on October 25, 2010 by Max

    Taken from: How to setup a mySQL (DSN) datasbase source in CentOS with myODBC and unixODBC command line

    odbcinst -j
    vi /etc/odbcinst.ini
    vi /etc/odbc.inst
    odbcinst -i -d -f /etc/odbcinst.ini
    odbcinst -i -s -l -f /etc/odbc.ini
    odbcinst -s -q
    isql -v

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