Comments for wonkablog http://wonkabar.org cornflakes, cartoons, dragons, linux, multimedia, psychology, teenagers Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:23:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on firefox "find as you type" steals window focus by Saji Nediyanchath http://wonkabar.org/2009/09/22/firefox-find-as-you-type-steals-window-focus/#comment-2806 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:23:23 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=978#comment-2806 This problem has a solution at: http://www.ehow.com/how_8153125_turn-off-firefox-quickfind.html

]]> Comment on contact me by Mitchell http://wonkabar.org/contact-me/#comment-2755 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:06:31 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/contact-me/#comment-2755 You’re killing me Steve! All I want to do is rip my VHS tapes so my niece can watch Elmo over and over and over and over again. That’s how I found your blog post “ripping vhs” from October 2009. Then I started looking at your other posts, and then more posts and more! Now I’ve got a couple of hours of reading to do just from poking around a bit. Keep up the great work. I think I’ve found a kindred spirit. You’ve inspired me to start my own blog so that I can output some of the input I get from reading about what interests me. Thanks.

]]> Comment on contact me by Isaac Godfrey http://wonkabar.org/contact-me/#comment-2656 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:09:30 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/contact-me/#comment-2656 Have you seen my project at ldskindlemobi.blogspot.com? I have lots of free content that is far and in between to get. It is in kindle format. Thank.

]]> Comment on znurt.org cleanup by Leho Kraav (@lkraav) http://wonkabar.org/2012/12/28/znurt-org-cleanup/#comment-2541 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:21:07 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=1619#comment-2541 Hey

This is the first I’ve heard of znurt and I’m finding it quite interesting. packages.gentoo.org is functional but obviously very outdated, znurt OTOH has a decent UI, perhaps these efforts could be combined?

]]> Comment on znurt.org cleanup by Martin Thierer http://wonkabar.org/2012/12/28/znurt-org-cleanup/#comment-2530 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 08:21:18 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=1619#comment-2530 Thanks for your work on znurt.org! I like the site a lot as it’s so much more useable than packages.gentoo.org.

Regarding your comments on PDO: I might misunderstand what you’re looking for but anyway: “fetching one value” might be PDOStatement::fetchColumn() and isn’t “returning result sets in associative arrays” just the PDO::FETCH_ASSOC option to PDOStatement::fetch() (which is included in the default PDO::FETCH_BOTH anyway)?

]]> Comment on mplayer: display filename on osd with lirc by nospellforlife http://wonkabar.org/2007/07/14/mplayer-display-filename-on-osd/#comment-2519 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:35:39 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/archives/304#comment-2519 If you press the letter I in current version of mplayer (4.6.3), it displays the name of the file and it does so with this line from input.conf:

I osd_show_property_text “${filename}” # display filename in osd

]]> Comment on mplayer-resume 1.3 by Tom http://wonkabar.org/2006/09/18/mplayer-resume-13/#comment-2485 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:21:11 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=172#comment-2485 I keep getting “No end position sent to save”

]]> Comment on gentoo, openrc, apache and monit – proper starting and stopping by Weedy http://wonkabar.org/2012/09/10/gentoo-openrc-apache-and-monit-proper-starting-and-stopping/#comment-2352 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:04:49 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=1559#comment-2352 It gets even better when monit is trying to kill a run a way apache because some fcgid processes is having a seizure.
stop program = “/monit/daemonStop.sh apache2 ‘apache2.*SSL’ ‘/var/run/apache2.pid’” with timeout 180 seconds
http://dpaste.com/802036/

]]> Comment on gentoo, openrc, apache and monit – proper starting and stopping by Xake http://wonkabar.org/2012/09/10/gentoo-openrc-apache-and-monit-proper-starting-and-stopping/#comment-2277 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:30:23 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=1559#comment-2277 I acctually think this behaviour is intended.
There are som init-scripts where stop() has some cleanup-functionality, like killing helper-processes, that are not really needed if the system crashes, but are very useful if you want to just restart the service since those processes may block the service from coming up properly again.

Personally I have stopped using “start” and am just using “restart” if I want to start/restart a daemon.

]]> Comment on gentoo, openrc, apache and monit – proper starting and stopping by Patrick M. http://wonkabar.org/2012/09/10/gentoo-openrc-apache-and-monit-proper-starting-and-stopping/#comment-2275 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:53:58 +0000 http://wonkabar.org/?p=1559#comment-2275 You may want to test your setup in a VM first to check everything is working as expected. When I started testing systemd I had to play around with the service files a bit to get used to it, and even wrote some myself to get every daemon running. That was though in a very early stage of systemd (something <systemd-10 i think) and especially with gentoo it was a bit rough that time, as for example udev was set up to call openrc init files for some hot plug events and such. But I guess now that many packages provide their own systemd service files and there is a "systemd" use flag for most of the stuff that won't be much of an issue. If you use a distri that ships systemd by default it may even more work out off the box.
But hey, just try it in a VM an see if it does the job for you.

I would also recommend reading Lennart's blog post series "systemd for administrators" while setting it up. It helps to graps some of the underlaying concepts of systemd: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd (scroll down to "The systemd for Administrators Blog Series")

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