I just misplaced my Apple Watch in my apartment. Walking around looking for it, and getting frustrated, I was thinking, “There ought to be a way to make it make some sound, then I can play Marco Polo with the watch”. But my Google-fu failed me: no obvious way to “ping my watch”. There’s functionality for pinging the phone from the watch though.

But there’s a way to make some noise: testing out the alert volume in the companion app on the phone.

I’m running an open source project called gocd-cli which is, well, a command line interface for Go continuous delivery. The intention is to make it easier to handle common tasks around Go. But this post isn’t really about that.

This project is supposed to be as portable as I can make it, becuse the original need I felt for it was born on RHEL6. Which is blessed with Python 2.6 by default. And we should definitely be looking to the future, meaning supporting Python 3, and I luckily got a pull request for just that. Since I couldn’t find any free hosted Go around I went for the next best thing, Snap CI, which is also built by ThoughtWorks.

I’ve for almost a year now been using Python as my day to day language as it’s what is used at my job. I’m starting to come around to really liking most parts of Python now, although there is definitely parts that are way more clunky than I would expect from a language so popular. And especially given how much talk there’s about the included batteries and to a small extent how there seems to bit of dickishness involved with hard core Python people. For an example of the latter just:

I spend some of my free time helping out with server administration and programming for the Swedish Pirate Party, Piratpartiet (look ma, X-Varnish), and we use Varnish for our caches. At the moment it’s just used on some of our projects, but we’re going to migrate most of our projects to be behind our Varnish caches.

The thing is though that we got two hosts running the exact same configuration, and we’d like to keep those hosts in sync. A quick search on Google gave me nothing for syncing varnish configuration over several hosts, or a farm as it were. So I took matters into my own hands and wrote varnishsync, a little bash script that uses rsync and ssh to sync the configuration folder and then to load and use the new configuration.

Yesterday I wrote a quick step-by-step guide for installing apache and setting your system up for Wikileaks mass-mirror project in Swedish and I’ve had requests for it to be translated into English.

This guide assumes you’re running Ubuntu or a Debian based system.

I’ve made a script that does all the steps below, feel free to use it!
The script: http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh
Usage: wget http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh && chmod +x wikileaks-mirror.sh && ./wikileaks-mirror.sh

Installing Apache and adding the wikileaks user #

# is the prompt as root:

A translation of this post is available in English.

En kommentar i Rick Falkvinges inlägg Fullt krig om informationen så efterfrågades en snabbguide för att dra igång en Wikileaksspegling i ett vanligt Linuxssystem.

Jag utgår från Ubuntu eftersom det är vanligt och vad jag själv använder.

Uppdatering 2010-12-05: Jag har gjort ett script som utför alla stegen nedan, använd gärna det!
Filen: http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh
Användning: wget http://sanitarium.se/files/wikileaks-mirror.sh && chmod +x wikileaks-mirror.sh && ./wikileaks-mirror.sh

Installera Apache #

# är prompten som root:

I’ve so far in all my travels never found a terminal I like better than xterm, maybe urxvt, but I’ve had a problem disabling bold fonts for a very long time. Update: Seems this is a known bug for xterm.

There are a lot of X resource configuration options that makes you think you can disable bold fonts, but alas, I’ve had no luck with any of them. But if you set the same font for both normal and bold fonts it’ll work! This little gem of knowledge I found as an off-hand remark on a configuration page by Emil Mikulic, thank you!