Neck deep in code & geekery

Drupal has a pretty decent security track record for such a large and public codebase.

I’ve build countless Drupal sites over the years and this security threat is the biggest yet.

https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2018-002

If you have a Drupal site you should patch right away.

I’ve setup a quick landing page and contact form to offer my services.

tar cvf - folder_to_send | pv --sizedu -csh folder_to_send | grep total | cut -f1| ssh [email protected] "tar xvf - -C /remote/folder/"

I found this workflow which almost did everything I wanted:

Capture screen shot

Upload it to dropbox

Copy a shortened URL to clipboard

I’ve been tweaking it to better suite my needs.

Open dropbox after capture if not already open

Random file names (more difficult for people to guess your next screenshot). This will generate a random 4 character file name containing upper and lowercase a-Z and 1-9. A few ambiguous characters were dropped to avoid confusion when manually typing/relaying the url. (ie. lI0O) — I believe this will be faster than the standard naming convention since it won’t have to check if each numbered file before the current number exists. I haven’t tested this but that’s what appears to be happening.

Tweaked “SETUPS” to allow skipping a step when running “setups” again. Your current setting will remain untouched.

Optimize image with jpegoptim, pngquant or ImageOptim (if it’s not installed the the setting will be ignored)

Save the capture in .jpeg format. This may produce smaller files, but will disable to shadow on window captures.

How to install jpegoptim and pngquant on OS X

This provides a better user experience than ImageOptim since everything happens in the background.

Install Homebrew

Open terminal and run:

brew install jpegoptim pngquant

Tip: If you’re coming from the workflow configuration then simply re-run “SETUPS” again after installing the optimizers and skip the settings you’ve already configured.

Download & Install

Checkout the original forum thread for install instructions etc.

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Now the real question is, should I cancel my Coin?

Coin has really dropped the ball. They have mislead it's backers and even tried charging for beta access at one point.

They've greatly missed their shipping date and have disappointed a ton of users in the process by favoring iPhone users over android.

The Coin app and signup process is extremely convoluted and confusing.

I'm running Parallels 9, but I'd imagine 8 would work as well.

Things you will need:

An external drive as large or larger than the drive you would like to migrate.

A virtual machine running OS X.

The steps are pretty simple and straightforward:

Reboot your physical mac into recovery mode by holding down Command + R

Use the Disk Utility tool to save an image of your main boot drive. Choose "read/write" for the image format and save it to an external drive.

The image will be a 1:1 clone of your drive or partition. This means any unused space on the drive/partition will contribute to the final saved image size. If your source drive is very large you may want to partition the drive so the active partition size is not much larger than it's contents.

Change the saved image's extension from '.dmg' to '.hdd'. This will allow you to attach the image to a Parallels virtual machine.

 Add a new Hard Disk to your OS X Virtual Machine using this new image as the source. Choose "Convert" when Parallels asks.

Add another Hard Disk and choose type "New image file". Size it to be a little larger than the source drive was on your physical Mac.

Boot up the virtual machine and launch Disk Utility. Select the drive you created in step 6. On the restore tab drag and drop the drive you created in step 5 (The drive with the source image from your physical Mac). Click restore.

This new drive will be bootable and contain an exact copy of the drive on your physical Mac.

You can now delete the other two drives if you no longer need them.

Tip: You can easily change the boot order of your virtual machine from the Configure -> Hardware -> Boot Order

http://blog.aclarke.eu/a-simple-treesize-shell-script-for-linux/

If you're compressing a large amount of files, it's helpful to be able to see the progress and even estimate the time left.

Pigz is a 100% gzip compatible compressor which uses multiple cores.

PV (Pipe viewer) allows you to generate helpful status information about the current process.

tar -c folders_to_compress | pv --size `du -csh folders_to_compress | grep total | cut -f1` | pigz -9 > /destination_folder/backup.tgz

So basically, you're telling tar to create an archive of the folder(s) contents then pass that raw data to pigz for compressing. But along the way we pass the folder's size to PV so it can monitor the progress and give us useful stats. We us du (disk usage) to calculate the total size we are processing. We return only the line displaying the total, then strip off the text which says "total". The parameter "-9" for pigz means maximum compression level.

I was able to compress 30GB of files while copying it to an external drive and using all 8 cores in under 10 minutes. Not too shabby.

Mac OS X Mountain Lion w/ Homebrew's pv

The command above worked fine on my old setup. For some reason the pv version I have installed from Homebrew does not translate sizes with aliases like 1G, 512KB etc. even though the manual says it will.

I've come up with a bit of an ugly hack to get pv to work with du.

sizekb=`du -csk folders_to_compress | grep total | cut -f1`;sizeb=`expr $kb \* 1000`; tar -c folders_to_compress | pv --size $sizeb | pigz -9 > /destination_folder/backup.tgz

I'm assigning the kilobyte size du spits out (OSX's du lacks the -b option) to a variable for multiplying by 1000 later to get the resulting size in bytes. When I multiplied by 1024 the progress was off by 2% and finished at 98%. Multiplying by 1000 works fine. Odd.

Today I ran into this error while trying to install a new app on my Galaxy Nexus running ICS 4.02.

[App name] could not be downloaded. error (-101)

It appears this will happen from time to time and phone model, brand, or version of android doesn't seem to matter.

There are several key factors which all seem to affect how the Market app functions.

Google Talk must be signed into an active account. Google's trouble shooting page: https://support.google.com/androidmarket/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1067233

Also, the "Download Manager" app seems to handle the download portion of installing an app from the market.

So here are the steps I took to fix my market issue.

Clear the cache and app data of the apps: Market, Download Manager, Talk

Try installing an app

If you are still getting the same error, open Talk and make sure you're signed in

If it's still broken, sign out of Talk, clear the app cache and data for Talk, and try again.

You may need to try any number of combinations above, while throwing in a reboot now and then for good measure.

If the market says "Can't connect [retry]", click Menu, then go to Accounts, and add a another google account. This will trigger the market app to ask you to agree to the terms an conditions. Make sure you don't sync you phone to this new account or it may import a bunch of data you don't want/need. You should now be able to connect to the market and can remove the new account by going into Settings -> Accounts & Sync, select the account, then press menu -> remove account.

I hope this helps!

Edit 1/13/12:

The market issue has returned. After much trial and error, I have narrowed it down to the issue of Google/Market thinking you haven't accepted the Market's Terms and Conditions. If for some reason, your google account no longer reflects that you have accepted these terms, then the Market app will refuse to connect. The trick is to force the Market app to ask you to accept the Terms and Conditions again.

I can't tell you exactly what I did to resolve this issue the second time, but it was a series of clearing caches and restoring my user apps from backups made with Titanium Backup which finally did the trick this time.

Remove files from the git repository, while untouch the files locally.

git rm --cached

Completely reset/revert your repository to a certain commit point. Replace HEAD with the first few letters of the desired commit hash 7e46dc.

http://pastebin.com/G5ZdDExm

I wasn't satisfied with Lifehacker's solution since it doesn't allow you to re-map the caps lock key without having to use a modifier like shift or control.

I wanted to emulate the CR-48's search key so after a few quick searches I've come up with the following solution:

Use Key Codes to reveal the key code of the button on your keyboard you'd like your caps lock key to use instead of the default code of 57.

Download and install PCKeyboard Hack. Remap your caps lock key to use the key code of the button you picked from step 1. I'm using F19 which has a code of 80.

Copy and paste the script below (bottom of page) into Applescript Editor. Optionally you can test it's functionality, then save it as a script in your Documents folder. (or anywhere else safe from accidental deletion)

Create a custom trigger in Quicksilver using your newly re-mapped caps lock key and have it run the new script you just created and you're done!

Applescript code:

tell application "System Events" tell application "Google Chrome" to activate keystroke "t" using command down keystroke "l" using command down end tell