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“A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.”

- Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant - CNN.com (via mikehudack)

modelsaresmart: Models know Bejeweled 2.

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:00:43 -0600

modelsaresmart:

Models know Bejeweled 2.

reMail - All Your Emails in Your Pocket

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:33:14 -0600

reMail - All Your Emails in Your Pocket:

The datastore these new browsers are gearing themselves toward—for offline running of javascript applications within the browser with the ability to save, export, or resume a specific state are pretty hardcore hackery and the next few years are going to be awesome.

GreenAsJade's s3-swf-upload-plugin at master - GitHub

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:00:40 -0600

GreenAsJade's s3-swf-upload-plugin at master - GitHub:

Hrmmmm. I’m going to have to see how this can handle multiple files… perhaps even full directories.

The Magic 8 Ball is essential equipment for Psychological...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:38:09 -0600

The Magic 8 Ball is essential equipment for Psychological Intelligence SChemes for Expediting Surrender

giannii:

90’s Spy Kit

psynix's rails3_haml_scaffold_generator at master - GitHub

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:17:11 -0600

psynix's rails3_haml_scaffold_generator at master - GitHub:

Woot, Rails 3 is looking reall nice. I love that I can now scaffold in haml.

Robots (via Vimeo) A great contest entry from...

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:26:28 -0600

Robots (via Vimeo)

A great contest entry from http://contest.openvideoalliance.org/

You take care of fambly good, yes? wreckandsalvage: Gmail...

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:02:06 -0600

You take care of fambly good, yes?

wreckandsalvage:

Gmail spammers trying to shut me down!

@Disqus Combined Threads

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:18:00 -0600

Jekyll Revision -> Github -> Tumblr -> Disqus
| Combined Discussion | => Static URL

I wonder if I could tie tumblr into github/jekyll, thereby gaining access to comments on specific versions of my writings that I could then combine in a single thread on disqus?

Or is this a problem for Sinatra?

Kaltura CE from git on MacPorts

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:24:01 -0500

Handy Commands to restart Apache and MySQL

These would be handy to put into a script to start or stop your development environment if you don’t want to have your web development running at all times.

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist
sudo apachectl restart

sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql5.plist
sudo apachectl stop

Caveats

I’ve got a heavily customized system of apache config files and some /etc/hosts modifications on my system so that my config files for specific virtual hosts are loaded by the following line in my httpd.conf:

Include /Users/papyromancer/src/apache-passengers/*.active

I’d also linked my /Users directory to /home to preserve consistency in my scripts for use in Ubuntu and OS-X. Adjust your shell commands to suit your setup.

Installing Prerequistes

Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP

Follow these detailed instructions. Pay particular attention to setting up the mysql user and databases and setting up apache to use php.

sudo port install apache2
sudo port install mysql5-server
sudo port install php5 +apache2 +mysql5 +pear

This was the only additional step needed after following that tutorial

sudo port install php5-gd php5-imap php5-curl

NOTE: You MUST use php version 5.2. Kaltura will not work with version 5.3.

At this point I’m not going to install memcached since this isn’t running a production environment.

Setup Kaltura

Get Kaltura

git clone git://github.com/papyromancer/kaltura-ce.git

I’ve had limited success installing Kaltura as the root directory of a web host, and because I’m going to be installing MediaWiki, Drupal, and Wordpress into this same virtual host I’ve decided to link my clone of the Kaltura code (in its own branch) into a separate folder where I will link the other applications as well:

mkdir kaltura-apache
cd kaltura-apache
ln -s ../kaltura-ce kaltura

I’ve also installed the regular old Kaltura CE i

Setup Kaltura virtual host within Apache


  ServerName kaltura.local
  DocumentRoot /home/papyromancer/src/kaltura/kaltura-apache

  
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
    AllowOverride All
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all

Directories

Run some scripts to create missing directories and correct directory permissions. Run the next two commands in your kaltura-ce directory.

mkdir content/uploads kaltura/alpha/cache indicators conversions archive
install/fixperms.sh

FFMPEG

I have a nice compilation of ffmpeg from macports that I’m sure I’ll integrate into This Kaltura installation at some point, but for right now I’m just going to download the binaries from http://kaltura.org/ unzip and link into the source code checkout from the root directory of my source code checkout. YMMV

ln -s /home/papyromancer/src/kaltura/kalturaCE/kaltura/bin kaltura/bin

Run the Kaltura web based install

Setup a mysql database.
Visit your local virtual host for kaltura

I haven’t worried about email and memcached on my install, but you may want to.

So that didn’t work…

Here’s an additional step I did at some point in the install, but it may not be needed:

sudo ln /opt/local/bin/php /opt/lampp/bin/php

tuneage: The Zombies - “Care of Cell 44” Everything about the...

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:15:46 -0500

tuneage:

The Zombies - “Care of Cell 44”

Everything about the Zombies is emblematic of 60s pop music: the hair, the suits, the melodies, the harmonies, and especially the Mellotron. For this reason, the Zombies draw immediate and warranted comparisons to early Beatles and the Beach Boys. While everyone has heard the Zombies’ hit “Time of the Season”, the band wasn’t a huge commercial success overall. And not being as commercially successful as some of their contemporaries, I tend to think The Zombies are one of the great, overlooked 60s British bands. This song, “Care of Cell 44”, is the lead-off track to The Zombies’ 1968 masterpiece Odyssey and Oracle, and is exactly what sunrises would sound like if sunrises made music.

Aspire One Aspect Ratio Issues with gstreamer and Miro

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:43:00 -0500

All of my videos were being played back at half horizontal aspect ratio. I assumed this was because of a faulty install he dubious sources for my firefox video plugins. It wasn’t until the same error popped up when I installed Miro to keep all those wonderful http://railscasts.com/ tutorials on my netbook for handy reference. Oh the agony: it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to follow typing in a text editor where the text is unreadable.

I searched google for the problem for about 15 minutes… I’d provide the link to the launchpad link that provided this simple fix, but I’ve lost it.

Open up your terminal
run gstreamer-properties (you can just do that as your regular user)
In Gstreamer Properties, head on over to the video tab
Choose ‘Custom’ Plugin
Paste ‘identity ! xvimagesink pixel-aspect-ratio=1/1’ into the pipeline field

Now just click test. The static noise in the lower right of the window should be a dynamic snowfield (not at all static). Close down the test pattern window; Click ‘OK’ to finish the test, and click ‘Close’ to save your settings.

I rebooted…. Your mileage may vary.

I remember reading this wonderful tip and I clam no innovation for my part in getting this to work.

You, who know why the pixel ratio is off on netbooks running X, come forth and receive your accolades!

oh yeah, Thanks for helping me fix this irksome problem :D

—Papyromancer

Disqus Comments in HAML

Sun, 24 May 2009 11:51:00 -0500

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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackelope Ignores ~/.profile $PATH Setup

Thu, 07 May 2009 15:57:34 -0500

You have to move your export PATH commands to the end of ~/.bashrc

# Add rubygems to PATH
export PATH="$HOME/.gem/ruby/1.8/bin:$PATH"

# Add JRuby to PATH
export PATH="$HOME/src/sdk/jruby/bin:$PATH"

# Add App Engine Java SDK to PATH
export PATH="$HOME/src/sdk/appengine-java-sdk/bin:$PATH"