Posted in Geekery on Jun 9th, 2010
If you’re like me and love your nipple, you might prefer to disable the touchpad on your ThinkPad. In openSUSE this is a trivial affair of opening up the Gnome mouse preferences and unchecking the Enable Touchpad option. When I went searching for this option in Ubuntu 10.04 I couldn’t find it, so I searched [...]
Posted in Geekery on May 21st, 2010
Here’s a little bash script to display the name of all lists in your mailman site and the number of subscribers for each list, just run it in the same directory as your mailman binaries (/usr/lib/mailman/bin on Debian): 123456#!/bin/bash LISTS=$((`./list_lists | wc -l` – 1)) LISTS=`./list_lists | tail -n$LISTS | awk ‘{ print $1 }’` [...]
Posted in Geekery on Apr 12th, 2010
Subscribing to feeds from Apple’s iCal Server with OS X’s iCal may be a relatively straight-forward affair but working out what CalDAV address to use with Mozilla Sunbird is another story completely. It took me ages to work out where these magic feed addresses were but once you know, it’s trivial. In iCal, just select [...]
Posted in Geekery on Mar 12th, 2010
The packaged Zenoss for Debain will monitor httpd out of the box but does not look for the apache2 process. To monitor Apache 2.2, you need to add a similar Processes class as httpd has. Navigate to Processes>Apache and then select Add process. Type apache2 as an ID (it’s just a unique identifier) and select [...]
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: 1javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested [...]
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