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Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts

Posted September 25, 2012 By Landis V

http://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-scripts.html

I’ve had this open in my browser for a long time now.  I think it’s one of those tabs that was well aligned with something I was doing at one time, but I have moved on and forgotten what it was that I was working on at that time.  Still, good content.  I often write shell scripts for some quick, one-off deal and never come back to them, but I always try to write them so they fail gracefully and safely if possible.  It doesn’t always work that way with time constraints, but it’s a good goal at least.

Didn’t really need the tab anymore at the moment, just wanted to record it as one of those things to come back to down the road if needed.

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FireSSH :: Add-ons for Firefox

Posted September 24, 2012 By Landis V

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firessh/

Handy little add-on for Firefox.  Can’t really speak well to its stability and functionality, as I almost always have PuTTY available on my system and configured for very convenient access, but it seems to be well-received, and it fits in well if you follow the “everything in a browser” mentality.  Definitely noteworthy that it supports tunneling.

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[root] Mobile ODIN Pro – Android Apps on Google Play

Posted September 17, 2012 By Landis V

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.mobileodin.pro&hl=en

Might have to pick this one up at some point.  I can see it potentially being useful.

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Finally built a favicon

Posted September 15, 2012 By Landis V

While I was looking at a few things while the girls were napping today, it struck me that I still have the same old default favicon I had when I initially set up my account.  So I built a new one at http://www.favicon.cc.

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Arch Linux (and ownCloud) on a PogoPlug POGO-E02

Posted September 13, 2012 By Landis V

Update:  Please see my newer articles about getting Debian running on the E02’s as well as a functional ownCloud instance.

PogoPlug hardware seems to be notoriously mislabeled as to the version it is running.  My experience was no exception. I ordered a POGO-P21, the label on the box showed it was a P21, but the label on the foot of the device shows that it’s the Kirkwood-based E02.  A good hint to this is the following output from ‘cat /proc/cpuinfo’ when SSH’ed to the device while running the native Pogo software (credit to the thread at http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2133 for this information):

Processor : ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 1192.75

Get your basic Arch environment installed using the instructions at http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-v2-pinkgray for the E02 version.  For other models, you’re on your own.  For my E02, I was operational in the Arch environment after following these steps and rebooting.

Next steps are as follows (currently incomplete, but a good start):

#Update your base system
pacman -Syu

#Install Apache 2.2
pacman -S extra/apache

#Install PHP (I think this will include several of the required modules for ownCloud, as commented below)
pacman -S extra/php

# Confirm installation of php-json later using:
# php /usr/include/php/ext/json/
# php /usr/include/php/ext/json/php_json.h
# php /usr/lib/php/modules/json.so
# Add “extension=json.so” to /etc/php/php.ini
# per http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=7928
# May be same for PHP XML per http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/php/files/
# ^ also mbstring
# ^ and gd
# ^ perhaps zip.so, but under modules.
pacman -S curl
# Say “y” to install
# php5-curl as usr/lib/php/modules/curl.so?
wget http://owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-latest.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf owncloud-latest.tar.bz2
mv owncloud /srv/http/

Right now, I have a working HTTP server, but that’s all I have the time for this evening.  PHP is not yet operational, permissions are not yet configured, and there is nothing in place to lock things down.  With a little luck I’ll have an opportunity to revisit this article and post some additional information to finalize your setup in the near future.  Good luck!

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http://www.keepassx.org/news/2012/07/361

This is an interesting tidbit to run across, and something I’ve been looking forward to for a while.  I never found running classic KeePass under WINE to be a particularly enjoyable experience, but since I only use KeePass 2.x files (I often forget why, but there’s some reason that I remember every time I read through the differences) I was stuck with that as my only option.  Will have to see if I can get this to compile and run, and then see what I can come up with for options on my Android.

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home – h-node.org

Posted August 14, 2012 By Landis V

http://h-node.org/

Compatibility database for hardware compliant with a fully free operating system.

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