Archive for October, 2008

Buildings Mysql-Proxy 0.6.0 On Centos 5.2

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Mostly, follow this guy’s advice. This worked, but I had seem to have to make a few changes to have lua working. I’m not a big centos/rhel user so this advice should be followed only in the absence of greater clue, but it worked for me:
On the Mysql proxy step of the above guide, untar [...]

VMware HGFS permissions

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I’ve had a really annoying issue with a linux (Centos) VMWare image in Fusion on Mac OSX, where the permissions on files created by the VM on the HGFS shared folder meant that it couldn’t write to those files (or directories) subsequently. The way to solve this is to set the uid in /etc/fstab on [...]

One is enough

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

CSI Miami returned to fine form this week, prompting this text from Mr Gray:
What’s most impresive is that every time I think this is the stupidest possible plot they managed to top it.
Almost every scene in this masterpiece was incredible, but I think the best summary is the clip from the end of the episode [...]

Descriptive Video Lyrics

Friday, October 10th, 2008

From b3ta this week, this is just inspired:

A moral quandry

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

I’m on the train on the way up to London and the tea trolley lady is coming up the aisle. She starts serving someone on the other side of the train, and I cough, genuinely, which she clearly takes as a ’serve me’ cough. Suddenly I’m caught in the bind of wanting a tea but [...]

Smack for Kicks

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

So this week’s CSI: Miami featured Prez from the wire, the actor clearly enjoying moving from one hard hitting, realistic, drug based drama to another. The gritty plotline involved him being a high school art teacher that sold heroin, mixed with sweets, to children. He would pay off his kiddie dealers with trainers, which I [...]