Penguins and Wild Cats

I’ve used Journler for the past 3 years to capture all my rough notes and minutes; think of it as a virtual notebook for your Mac. The Windows analogy would be Microsoft OneNote, but in reality they are very different products with very different purposes.

Sadly, development on Journler has really ground to a halt over the past year or so, and exciting new “cloud” centric applications like Evernote have sprung up, featuring handy smartphone applications and text recognition. I decided to migrate, but did not want to lose my hundreds of existing Journler records.

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Time to get this blog going again.

I’ve “made the switch” to os x since my last post over a year ago. Expect to see a lot of mac-centric content going forward, as I learn more. 

FAT/VFAT doesn’t support groups, and doesn’t support modified time recording to the second, only minute

1. instead of -a ( -rlptoDg) use just -rlptoD (removes the ‘g’)
2. add –modify-window 120 (seconds)

For backing up user dirs that do not match the external permissions, use “-rltD”. vFAT doesn’t do multiuser when mounted under linux

FAT isn’t case sensitive, so “Folder” and “folder” on the source will collide on destination. Avoid this naming on the source side

I couldn’t find a clean way to support multiple WordPress blogs under a single site domain name, all using a single installation of the WordPress application. So, I came up with my own.

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Well, I cancelled my subscription to sveasoft today. Sveasoft makes a replacement firmware for the Linux-based Linksys WRT54G-series wireless routers. There are some nice bells and whistles that Sveasoft adds, but to be honest I used very few of them and found the router to be less stable when running Sveasoft’s firmware. Their release cycle for new builds/functionality has also been extremely slow.

Last week I installed Talisman/Basic v1.2, and from then on my wireless link would drop after 5-10 minutes and required a reboot of the router to restore. All my settings were lost during the upgrade, even though I followed the official upgrade path.

I’ve downgraded back to Talisman/Basic v1.1 which has been pretty solid for me over the past year. I might change back to the Linksys stock firmware, since all I use from Talisman is QoS and sshd.

There are a number of free WRT firmware solutions out there that are much more mature now than they were when I first purchased ($20) the Sveasoft firmware a few years ago. See the Wikipedia entry for WRT54G for more details.

New blog, new look. Next step: bringing in the content from the old site.

This site is primarily concerned with documenting hacks, complex setups, and useful learnings from my experiences with Linux.

I might talk about my life too, but it’s unlikely. I’m not that much of a narcissist.