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links of interest (Apr 2012)

nick — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:51:00 +0100

Some interesting links (from my todo list)

http://www.rackspace.co.uk/cloud-hosting/cloud-products/cloud-monitoring/
Different! It's more of a cloud nagios service than cloud-server monitor, not what I was expecting at all.. still looks good tho.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
I missed this when I switched to chrome, the beta is working just fine.
http://touchstudios.net/finch
What do I "do" all day?

shell based dropbox

nick — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:57:00 +0000

I'm looking for an ad-hoc (easy) way to share files with my remote server...

I want to call the uploader in a shell environment I created one script for that (maybe with less effort than using ruby or other language) for that, it only needs Curl installed on system and standard Unix commands like grep, tr and sed.

Reference: http://www.pauloamgomes.net/blog/dropbox-shell-uploader
Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/885388/DropBoxSimpleUploader.sh

Is ShowOff the Geeks alternative to PowerPoint?

nick — Sun, 29 May 2011 10:33:00 +0100

I must investigate this more....

the best damn presentation software a developer could ever love
https://github.com/schacon/showoff

The readme looks awesome!

Bookmarks for Automation

nick — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:30:00 +0100

I've found a couple of good links recently for automating tasks....

isup.me: Great little site for checking if a web server is up or not... you can even create bookmarks like www.isup.me/http://news.bbc.co.uk which will take you straight to the result.
icanhazip.com: This site simply responds with a plain text answer of your IP address, nice for checking if NAT and proxies are working like they should.

Delicious's Bad Behavior

nick — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Recently I've been having this problem with my WordPress+ Bad Behavior + Delicious blog posting combo, in a nut shell, delicious was showing an error:

[10/22/08 05:00:03 AM -0700] Creating blog post at http://correct_url.com/xmlrpc.php ...ERROR: Failed due to General Exception: Curl returned non 200 HTTP code: 417. Response body:

And I couldn't work out why, after some digging/googling, I thought to look in my bad behaviour logs, and found a match for my apache log...

76.13.6.189 - - [19/Oct/2008:23:00:29 +0100] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1" 417 796 "-" "PEAR_XML_RCP2/0.0.x"

I've contacted both yahoo (who now own delicious)

Hello Nick,

Thank you for writing to del.icio.us Customer Care.

I understand that the Delicious blog posting feature is not working
properly for you. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Our engineers are aware of this issue and are investigating possible
solutions, but since this is not and "official" feature, we do not have
any specific time frame when this will be fixed.

Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.

Thank you again for contacting del.icio.us Customer Care.

Regards,
Alessandra

and Michael Hampton (Bad Behavior Developer)

Looks like they are sending an unexpected Expect: header and they are
failing to retry the request without Expect:. You should report this to
them so they can fix it.

as you can see they have confirmed that there is indeed a problem ..... But as you may have noticed delicious posted on my blog, no the problem hasn't been fixed, but there is a work around.

In \~/wp-content/plugins/bad-behavior/bad-behavior/whitelist.inc.php you can add delicious's IP address, it's not a perfect solution as it'll be overwritten everytime BB is updated, but it'll do for now :)

UPDATE: I've had many requests for this...

OLD: whitelist.inc.php

// IP address ranges use the CIDR format.

        // Includes four examples of whitelisting by IP address and netblock.
        $bb2_whitelist_ip_ranges = array(
                "64.191.203.34",        // Digg whitelisted as of 2.0.12
                "208.67.217.130",       // Digg whitelisted as of 2.0.12
                "10.0.0.0/8",
                "172.16.0.0/12",
                "192.168.0.0/16",
//              "127.0.0.1",
        );

NEW: whitelist.inc.php

// IP address ranges use the CIDR format.

        // Includes four examples of whitelisting by IP address and netblock.
       $bb2_whitelist_ip_ranges = array(
                "64.191.203.34",        // Digg whitelisted as of 2.0.12
                "208.67.217.130",       // Digg whitelisted as of 2.0.12
                "76.13.6.189",          // Delicious
                "10.0.0.0/8",
                "172.16.0.0/12",
                "192.168.0.0/16",
//              "127.0.0.1",
        );

Yuuummm Del.icio.us !

nick — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:22:00 +0000

Thank you dougal for pointing out this great post. My previous post came from del.icio.us, and I think with my aside type hack on my theme it looks cool; granted the actual post needs some customization, but I'll just let the brains that power del.icio.us sort that out :cool: