February 24, 2012

Message to Adobe

Dear Adobe, please stop helping me. jmorgan@mifhjmorgan-l2 ~ $ sudo -u morgajel acroread /home/morgajel/omnomnom.pdf [sudo] password for jmorgan: Adobe Reader does not need to be run as a privileged user. Please remove 'sudo' from the beginning of the command.

February 20, 2012

The Willis Hangout campaign, Part 2.

When word of Willis opening reached your realm, you were intrigued. There were reasons for leaving home, and the news of Willis was perfectly timed. Destiny, opportunity- call it what you will, but the ship to take you to Willis couldn’t arrive soon enough. Disembarking, you and a dozen others are led from the docks into the back of a covered wagon, which is sealed behind you. You have no idea where you’re headed, but the clop-clop of horseshoes on cobblestones continues for several minutes.

February 19, 2012

The Willis Hangout campaign, Part 1.

Nineteen years have passed since the end of the Mage war. King Vern’s grip over Willis has tightened like a vice. Few know what actually happened; after the failed war with the dwarves, the wizards from the surrounding realms met in the floating mage city of Korinara. They were never heard from again. Some say the archmage Astinathis tore Korinara from this plane of reality, leaving nothing behind but a black void.

February 9, 2012

Second Core not detected on Intel Core 2 Duo e8400 on Ubuntu 11.10

Long title, but accurate. This was on a Dell Optiplex 760- dmesg showed only one core being found, cat /proc/cpu only showed one core, etc. sudo vim /etc/default/grub on GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, change acpi=off to acpi=noirq save file run sudo update-grub reboot Now your cores should be found. Leave a comment if this was able to help you.

February 2, 2012

Perl shortcuts in Vim

Since I’m home sick and trying to figure out how to do something productive with my time, I figured I might as well share something useful. The following are a few hotkeys I have set up in vim that I use when working on perl: map <F2> : call PerlCritic()<CR> map <F3> : call PerlCheck()<CR> map <F4> :!perltidy -i=4 -ci=4 -syn -w --add-semicolons --indent-spaced-block-comments --closing-side-comments --cuddled-else --maximum-consecutive-blank-lines=2 -l=120 -wbb=" + - * / x \\!

January 16, 2012

Hostname Conventions

This concept is something I’ve carried around with me for my last 3 jobs, and since I’m writing it up for my current employer, I figured I should document it here as well. I’ve mainly worked in Linux/Windows environments, so you may sense a bit of bias away from older systems. It’s not intentional, just a result of my experience. Thanks to Mick for introducing me to this schema. The purpose of this documentation is to provide a clean-cut and straight-forward convention for naming servers.

January 16, 2012

New Phone

My droid has reached the end of it’s life, so I’ve gotten a replacement- the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Pros Peppy– My droid was showing it’s age. It lagging pretty badly, regardless of what was installed or how it was configured. The Nexus can run several things without issue. ICS -The nexus is the first phone running the newest version of Android, “Ice Cream Sandwich”. A lot of cool new features that I’ve just barely touched.

January 6, 2012

Stabenow’s apparent support of SOPA.

I recently emailed my representatives letting them know that I think SOPA is a horrible piece of legislation and asked them where they stood on the issue. This is the response I received from Debbie Stabenow: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Senator Debbie Stabenow wrote: January 6, 2012 Dear J., Thank you for contacting me about your concerns with legislation designed to fight Internet piracy. I appreciate hearing from you.

December 12, 2011

Using Jenkins for System Administration

Preface While system administrators often have many different goals, here are two that seem fairly universal: Automate the redundant tasks Hand off the simple tasks I’ve recently found that the build utility Jenkins can be a major boon for an Operations team, and wanted to share my findings with others. What is Jenkins? So, what exactly is Jenkins? It’s a popular fork of the open source continuous integration tool, Hudson. While it is normally used for building and deploying software, it can easily be used for more interesting purposes.

November 15, 2011

Suggestions for Rocksmith

After trying to contact Ubisoft to provide them with feedback on Rocksmith (and receiving little more than an automated response,) I figured I might as well put my feedback here for all the good it’ll do. So here’s a list of things that I think they could improve. Why do I have to press 3 buttons to get into the game? Press A, Press Start, Press A… come on, I got 10 minutes to get my fix, and it takes 2 minutes to load up and get to a song.