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WordPress Clearline Theme – Display Tags not Categories

Sonia Hamilton — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:19:44 +0000

The WordPress Clearline theme displays categories not tags for posts, and doesn’t have a way of modifying it’s behaviour through the settings area. This is easily fixed with a one line code change:

Edit the file /var/www/wp-content/themes/clear-line/functions.php, and at approximately line 340 replace:

with this:

The path to the functions.php file may be slightly different on your server; you can quickly locate it using find:

find / -type f -name functions.php 2> /dev/null

Migrating from Palm to Android

Sonia Hamilton — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:03:00 +0000

My venerable Palm Treo 550 is showing it’s age (as is the company), so I’ve been looking for a new phone platform to migrate to for a few years. And since I’m now working for Google, Android is the obvious choice (dog-fooding and all that).

Some tricks and tools I’ve find useful in my migration from Palm to Android:

Synthesis SyncML clients are great for syncing to a SyncML server. Not $free like Funambol, but Synthesis has nice extra things like syncing of memos.
for a SyncML server I’m using Memotoo. I could’ve setup my own SyncML server, but at $5/month Memotoo is cheap, and I know it works…
on the Android Market there’s a Keyring client, thus enabling me to bring across my Palm Treo Keyring (full of Secret Squirrel Stuff, like passwords for servers, etc). I’m yet to work out how I’m going to back this up, but probably something with Memotoo

So, I’m using SyncML clients on my Treo and Android to sync up to Memotoo, keeping both in sync. Memotoo gives me a nice desktop that sort of replaces the JPilot desktop (so I can type stuff in at a real keyboard and sync it to my phones). Shweeeet, I’m almost migrated!

First Day at Google – Floating Fish

Sonia Hamilton — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:47:28 +0000

My first day at Google – a fish floated through the kitchen…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoTRfO6BqIc

Balintawak Arnis Cebu

Sonia Hamilton — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:24:36 +0000

I’m in Cebu, the Philippines at the moment, learning Balintawak Arnis (stick fighting). A little video of my training – I’m still very much a beginner…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPD_59EEdlc

ssh – DISPLAY is not set – Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket

Sonia Hamilton — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:14:40 +0000

A little ssh error I came across while trying to work remotely on an Ubuntu machine. ssh X Display Forwarding wasn’t working, and I was getting an error:

DISPLAY is not set

Digging through /var/log/auth.log, I also noticed this error:

Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket

After much Googling, it seems that IPv6 was causing the problem. It was solved by adding:

AddressFamily inet

to /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and restarting the ssh server.

reload mutt configuration

Sonia Hamilton — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:14:00 +0000

To reload your mutt configuration (for example after editing muttrc): :source /path/to/muttrc For example: :source /home/sonia/.muttrc more...

RFC 1178 and server naming

Sonia Hamilton — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:20:48 +0000

Whenever I come across servers with names like chpvuat01, I’m reminded of RFC 1178 “Choosing a name for your computer”. Especially when ch stands for crack house, pv stands for paid verbiage, but uat doesn’t stand for user acceptance testing: the box used to be in UAT, was moved to SIT (System Integration Testing), but kept it’s old name because renaming it would be too hard…

From the RFC:
Using a word that has strong semantic implications in the current context will cause confusion. Don’t choose a name after a project unique to that machine.

Name machines after D&D characters, LOTR characters, planets, flowers, animals, whatever, but not their function!

(Hostname has been obfuscated to protect the not-so-innocent, though the project may as well be called crack house).

Midnight Commandar mc notes

Sonia Hamilton — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:28:13 +0000

Midnight Commander (mc) is mostly obvious, but there’s a few things a regularly forget and have to look up.

to select (or “tag”) multiple items, use the Insert key, or ctrl-t (eg when on a Macbook)
any sort of compressed or package file (.deb, .tgz, .iso, .rpm, etc):

F3 (view) to get an overview of the package
Enter to browse the package contents, then eg F3 to view the file or F5 to copy the file out

to jump back and forth to the command line (“subshell support”), use ctrl-o to hide mc, then ctrl-o to return from the subshell to mc

Taken from Jane Tembath’s MC Tutorial. See also the mc faq.

git patch add

Sonia Hamilton — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:04:53 +0000

My new favourite git option:

    git add -p

It’s like doing an interactive add, then choosing ‘p’ for patching. From the manual:

-p, –patch

Interactively choose hunks of patch between the index and the work tree and add them to the index. This gives the user a chance to review the difference before adding modified contents to the index. This effectively runs add –interactive, but bypasses the initial command menu and directly jumps to the patch subcommand. See “Interactive mode” for details.