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Exploring Antelope Island

Sean — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:42:26 +0000

This week I visited my wife while she was in Salt Lake City for an interview. We took a trek up to Antelope Island, something I had read about and really wanted to see. To get to the island we crossed a long causeway near Syracuse, Utah. The causeway had a sign which ..continue reading..

Installing the ReadyLogo Tahi Scripts to FreeBSD 9.0 utmp.h bug

Sean — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:10:01 +0000

Hello all. Last week I was upgrading one of our vmware templates to FreeBSD 9.0 to conduct ReadyLogo testing via the Tahi scripts and stumbled across a bug where I could make v6eval compile correctly. Basically it looks like this->

freebsd-9-USGv6# cd v6eval-3.3.2 freebsd-9-USGv6# make ===> lib (depend) ===> lib/Cm (depend) rm ..continue reading..

How to mount a Windows samba share with FreeBSD automatically

Sean — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:17:56 +0000

A problem at work the other day was every time our virtual machine cluster went down we had a bunch of virtual FreeBSD boxes that had to be manually connected one by one to our windows share to offload reports. I wanted to make this happen automatically on boot since it was always ..continue reading..

Watermarks on Photos

Sean — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:16:00 +0000

So a question I get asked a lot is how to easily (by easily I mean not using some fancy program like Photoshop or Aperture) resize photos and add a water mark. My primary computer is a Apple Computer but I expect Windows has plenty of programs that do the same thing. Apple provides ..continue reading..

Setting up Wireshark on Mac OSX

Sean — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:02:49 +0000

Here is the complete guide, because so many ‘complete guides’ were missing a step or two that I needed.

1) Download the DMG from http://www.wireshark.org/download.html. Unpack it.

2) Drag the Wireshark icon onto to the Applications alias.

3) Open the Utilities folder.

4) Drag the contents of the Command Line folder to /usr/local/bin

5) Drag the ChmodBPF folder onto the ..continue reading..

How to add line numbers to VI by default

Sean — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:20:35 +0000

I am running on Snow Leopard 10.6.6. at the time of this post. VI is a handy tool to use because it is installed on every single non-windows box I have ever seen. I originally only used nano and I have found out that nano is not everywhere.

1) you need to locate your .vimrc file, ..continue reading..

Netflix Error Code n8156-6013

Sean — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:11:01 +0000

Here is a problem I have come across twice now. Every time you migrate Apple computers it will corrupt a file so that Netflix will no longer work. So for me I migrated from a Macbook pro to a Mac Mini then back to a Macbook Pro over a series of 3 years. It seems ..continue reading..

Friend’s New Website!

Sean — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:59:26 +0000

My good friend Doug McIlwain has created a wakeboarding website! You can go check him out at http://www.wakeboardsavannah.com/ He is really into wakeboarding, more into wakeboarding then I have ever seen anyone. So if you happen to love wakeboarding you should go check it out. If you really like his site make sure to ..continue reading..

Custom Category Menu for WordPress

Sean — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:27:15 +0000

So here is another quick WordPress tutorial that will help deal with ‘post categories’. WordPress posts can be broken into categories so that if you have some posts marked as ‘pet related’ and some posts as ‘human related’ you could mark them as such. Usually most theme will have something like a ‘category xxx’ ..continue reading..

How to Grab your URL with PHP

Sean — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:29:01 +0000

Sometimes you want to grab your url from the web browser to do some thinking (maybe I want to display flowers on a random page, or want to display a lock if https is enabled). Here is some code that I have seen used over and over, and I have taken parts of it ..continue reading..