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Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Get A Sys Admin: How to install Scalr on Ubuntu 8.10 EC2 Instance
A quick set of instructions for getting Scalr up on an EC2 instance.

Links for 2008-11-20 [del.icio.us]

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

How to Disable The System Beep in Ubuntu
Quick way to disable the PC speaker in Ubuntu. Handy for getting rid of that annoying system beep I keep experiencing in VMs.

Flat Organization: Job Interview

Robert Simmons — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:00:16 +0000

I just don't feel funny this week.

Links for 2008-11-19 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

20 Tips for Using Tomcat in Production | Digital Sanctum

Links for 2008-11-14 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Curling Quotes in HTML, XML, and SGML
Advice on putting smart quotes into HTML. It boils down to use “ and ” for a few reasons which are explained in the page.
Java UTF–8 international character support with Tomcat and Oracle, 26/03/07, Kieran's blog
Advice on correctly handling internationalization issues at each level of the stack. It's not exhaustive but it's a pretty good overview about the kinds of issues you'll see.
Find broken links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM)
A pretty straightforward and damn handy free (but not OSS) crawl tool for finding broken links on sites. Windows only AFAIK.

Links for 2008-11-12 [del.icio.us]

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

sysv-rc-conf - Run-level configuration for SysV like init script links
A command line utility for controlling the run levels of various init.d scripts. Yet another useful command / project whose name I can never seem to remember.
lbrandy.com » Blog Archive » My First and Last Webcomic
PNG versus JPG web comic.
On Job Hopping « Toronto Technology Jobs
"If you’re worried about employees moving on at the job posting level, long before you’ve even started to assess a particular candidate, you probably need to turn your focus inward. You’re probably not as great an employer as you think: focus on treating your employees well and making them happy, and employee stability will follow."

Flat Organization: It's an Art Form

Robert Simmons — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:53:11 +0000

Links for 2008-11-11 [del.icio.us]

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

RubySSL-2007-006 - puppet - Trac
Here's the surprisingly hard to find solution to my EC2 Ubuntu Puppet problem.
SensorSimulator - openintents
Sensor Simulator for simulating Android sensor data in real time.

Links for 2008-11-07 [del.icio.us]

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600

Applications of the Vector Dot Product, Math for Java Game Programmers
Get Your War On: New World Order - 236.com - Video
Oh so brilliant. via:mray

Flat Organization: The "Lost" Episodes

Robert Simmons — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:01:56 +0000

Before I started putting the comic directly on my blog, I had a few other episodes of Flat Organization. Since many people never click through to my BitStrips page I'm going to lump all of the "missing" episodes into this one post. I could post them individually but that seems more annoying and like it would require more effort. Apologies to those that have already seen these.

Nobody Paints Baby in a Corner

Robert Simmons — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:11:27 +0000

Unfortunately this week's comic just feels like I'm getting more and more bitter. Maybe the next one will be funny.

Clearing Cached Authentication Info in Windows

Robert Simmons — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:21:43 +0000

This comes up every now and then for me and I can never remember how to do it so I'm sticking it here to make it easier for me to find. The problem happens when I'm using Windows Explorer to open or browse a Windows share / Samba share / SMB mount point / etc. Windows Explorer has a tendency to cache the authentication information for the share and doesn't re-present the opportunity to provide authentication information in the event that the cached credentials have become invalid. This happened to me again today when the account I had used in the past had become disabled. You can find and clear the cached authentication(s) by doing the following:

Click Start, Run and type Control keymgr.dll
Remove the entries from the list

Click Start, Run and type Control Userpasswords2
Click Advanced, Manage Passwords

The information is also in the Registry but these worked well enough for me to not go poking around in that rat's nest.

Gracie Cameo in The Incredible Hulk

Robert Simmons — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:17:57 +0000

There are quite a few little cameos in The Incredible Hulk but the one I was happiest at having spotted was Rickson Gracie. Remember in Portuguese that 'R' sounds like an 'H', so it's pronounced "Hickson." Unfortunately they've listed him as an Akido instructor despite the fact that he's a bad ass in the family business of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I know it doesn't sound like it, but that's a colossal fuck up in martial arts land. Besides that it's a fair movie but after all the rumors about heavy editing changing the nature of the film I'd really like to see what the original "Norton" version was like. Maybe 25 years from now we can have 8 versions of it like Blade Runner.

Flat Organization: Have Laptop, Will Travel

Robert Simmons — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:45:37 +0000

Yeah, I'm not doing so well at sticking to the new "publish once a week" experiment. I either need a new rule allowing overflow or need to be more willing to stockpile these crappy jokes.

Flat Organization: Our Next CEO

Robert Simmons — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:52:14 +0000

While I'm going to try and publish once a week, I have a hard time sitting on finished comics. I just can't resist the temptation to do two this week.

Flat Organization: This Doesn't Feel Agile

Robert Simmons — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:00:45 +0000

Hey, we're so agile we're bordering on chaos.

Flat Organization: Sales Ninja

Robert Simmons — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:57:14 +0000

I think I'm going to just start putting my infrequently updated comic directly onto the blog. This will allow my to jam my junk in more peoples' faces and allow people to comment on the comic without having to create a Bitstrips account. I'm also going to try and update the comic at least once a week. We'll see how that goes.