Plurk-weaned

thinks he's weaned enough from Plurk to not bother checking his timeline anymore. :P

Things you do for your kids

feeding my daughter's virtual pet in Club Penguin. *tsk*

arping -s

arping saves the day once again!

Back to school blues

I’m already feeling the need to kick myself for taking full load this semester, but as my wife would always say, I’ve seen worse days and situations and just as long as I stuck with “the” plan, no problems.

For now, I need to answer the following questions: Am I ready for distance education?  Am I ready to teach online?

Friday Gold Rush on Y101

good morning! friday gold rush!

Deplurked

I've deplurked long enough I guess. Karma points are way, way down!

Removing Adobe Air apps on Ubuntu

I was trying to remove AgileAgenda after fiddling with it for a week and deciding it wasn't going to cut it. There's no Adobe Air Application "uninstaller" in the menu, and search engine results usually point to Mac lurv, or not.  Seems like uninstalling Air apps on OSX is bloody.

I did find this nice article on removing Adobe Air on Linux and gave it (well parts of it) a shot.

jon@jedi-ntbk:/opt$ sudo dpkg -S /opt/*
adobeair-enu: /opt/Adobe AIR
com.agileagenda.agileagenda.f49a4d8df78a1fee7a3be440dc11bab18d922274.1: /opt/AgileAgenda
de.makesoft.twhirl.0ea062bc275e7ed1e6ec3762effd73c7158adf33.1: /opt/twhirl

I merely copied the package name of AgileAgenda, ran dpkg with the right switches, and pfft app's gone! Menu entry seems to be gone too.

jon@jedi-ntbk:/opt$ sudo dpkg -P com.agileagenda.agileagenda.f49a4d8df78a1fee7a3be440dc11bab18d922274.1
(Reading database ... 128350 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing com.agileagenda.agileagenda.f49a4d8df78a1fee7a3be440dc11bab18d922274.1 ...
jon@jedi-ntbk:/opt$

More Plesk Blues

I've had this problem with Plesk since I started relying heavily on it in 2006.  For some reason, after you've added your client, allocated IP address to client's pool, added a domain, and selecting physical hosting, you get the message:

Unable to update hosting preferences: hosting update is failed: object ID is invalid

After getting this error, you get the domain listed, but still requiring set up.  Attempting to complete physical hosting setup will give you same result.  First thing you'd want to look at would be some log. For all of its peculiarities, Plesk has an organized directory tree. Look at /usr/local/psa/admin/logs/httpsd_error_log and you'll see that skeleton or template is missing.

I didn't know exactly where to get the .skel directory, but some Googling led me to /home/httpd/vhosts/.skel/0, which after some directory skimming, I was able to verify as non-existent. I simply copied an existing .skel directory from one of our other servers and redid the physical hosting setup.

I'll see if I can find out what's causing the .skel directory to cease to exist. This is a fairly easier to solve issue. I so need to start looking in forums of Parallels (formerly SWSoft) for solutions.

on statuses(?) and micro-blogging

hi. i'm testing out this feature in ping.fm. charo and jerome have been talking about this and thought i'd check it out.

Now Plurking

Also playing in twitter, pownce, and soon identi.ca, but plurk wins for me, hands down. Check it out here

Feeling Bene Gesserit

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

my first tumble

ok so it’s not really the first.

my first tumble

ok so it’s not really the first.

cross-posting is about integration

got multiply? this is a test of the multiply-blogger cross-posting feature.