Posted in Geekery on Feb 28th, 2010
Running Jira on FreeBSD, I wanted to be able to pick up email from a Google Apps account and feed it in as tickets. This is normally a straight-forward process but I was getting these errors in the Jira logs:
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
So [...]
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Posted in Geekery on Nov 23rd, 2009
I recently needed to move a very simple ASP site to Apache for archival purposes. There was nothing of importance that the dynamic ASP was doing and as it was just for an archive, it made the most sense to turn it into simple HTML (as the whole site probably should have been in the [...]
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Posted in Geekery on Nov 16th, 2009
I wanted to convert some high resolution TIFFs that Lisa took of Bill’s paintings recently and came up with this quick and dirty conversion into JPEG:
for i in *.tif; do tifftopnm “$i” | pnmtojpeg > “${i%.tif}.jpeg”; done
That’ll convert all .tif files in a directory to JPEG (using default processing setting).
I didn’t have exiftool installed, and [...]
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Posted in Geekery on Oct 28th, 2009
I’ve had Evolution hang on start up a few times lately, I keep forgetting what I’ve done to fix it so I’m noting it here. All I’ve needed to do is to kill evolution-data-server and try to start Evolution again, so to fix this issue:
killall evolution-data-server-2.28
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Posted in Geekery on Oct 8th, 2009
Apple Remote Desktop allows you to graphically administer remote OS X machines, including OS X Server. Apple uses some custom encryption over the top of the standard VNC protocol so if you are connecting from a Linux client using vncviewer you’ll get the following error message:
Server did not offer supported security type
To set the Apple [...]
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Posted in Geekery on Sep 21st, 2009
v0.0.5
I’ve created another incremental build of OpenAustralia DevLive. Version 0.0.5 simply makes the web application’s directory the twfy git source tree so you can now use the source control features of git (like resetting after making changes).
You can download the 429 MB VMWare image from SUSE Studio for the next week or so (let me [...]
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Posted in Geekery on Sep 10th, 2009
As a proof of concept, yesterday I moved our Confluence installation to Solaris under VMWare from it’s current home on a Linux box. I won’t go into the background as to why I was doing this (most people would be shocked hearing I would move anything from Linux!) but the reason it was a proof [...]
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Posted in Geekery on Sep 7th, 2009
The new version of OpenAustralia DevLive is now available. Version 0.0.4 adds search functionality so you can test and hack on search related features and bugs.
After the appliance boots, build the search index by opening a terminal and running:
/srv/www/openaustralia/twfy/search/index.pl openaustralia daterange 2007-09-19 2007-09-21
The 416 MB VMWare image can be downloaded from SUSE Studio for the [...]
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Posted in Geekery on Aug 25th, 2009
I’m running a proof of concept at work of the Google Search Appliance (GSA). Work’s very much a Microsoft Windows shop and for the demo I wanted the SMB search results to link to the files on the SMB share, not the GSA proxy that is the default.
You can hack this with this small change [...]
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Posted in Geekery on Aug 7th, 2009
For OpenAustralia DevLive, I wanted the browser to open straight into the local machine’s development instance of the web application. I also wanted to provide a bunch of project related links as bookmarks to make it easy for users to get help or submit bugs.
To change the browser start page you need to add an [...]
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