Author: jbmurphy
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Google Reader Starred items to Together.app
I use Together.app from Reinvented Software as my archiving solution – my knowledge base. I like the product because it leaves the pdfs I create on the filesystem and the db contains the tags and links associated with each file. I used to use Yojimbo, but it keeps all the files in their database. I am not sure it…
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WordPress TwentyTen Custom Header setting in the db
When we move a WordPress site from development to production we update the URL in the following db values: in the GUID value of each post in wp_posts in the wp_options table, the option_name of home in wp_options, the option_name of siteurl In a recent move, we found that the custom header in the TwentyTen theme was not…
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MySQL replication of WordPress dbs over ssh
I wanted to setup MySQL replication over ssh for a small WordPress database. I have a VM that lives in my house, I wanted to be able to bring it up, make it current, disconnect, and then hack away. Here is my proceedure. On the master: Setup the replication user (I had to use 127.0.0.1…
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DrivesMeNuts: Windows shutdown tracker
You know that drop down box that looks like this (called the Shutdown Tracker): Every month when I patch servers it DrivesMeNuts that Microsoft did not put in a “Planned” option for “Operating System: Patching” Every time I click the shutdown tracker, I think: “Microsoft intentionally left “Patching” off the selection list, so that the…
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Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on ESX
This is how I installed Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on our VMware ESX 4.1 box tar -xzf OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.4.0-1266_A00.4.tar.gz cd linux/supportscripts/ ./srvadmin-install.sh -x esxcfg-firewall -o 1311,tcp,in,OpenManageRequest ./srvadmin-services.sh restart Mostly a reminder for me, but maybe a search engine will bring someone here, and it would be helpful.
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My “Copy WordPress site to local” script
I wanted to write a script that would copy a WordPress site to the local machine from a remote server (securely over ssh). This would allow me to set up a test environment or backup. First I need to make sure the site exists on the source server. Then I want to get the current…
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And we’re back – Chrome 12.0.725.0 dev restores notifications
Phew.
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My PowerShell PowerCLI VMware guest provisioning script
This script will provision a 4GB Ram, 40 GB HD Server 2008 R2 VM, set the CD to an OSD iso, set the BootDelay to 5 seconds, and start the machine
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OS X: Move files based on creation date
I wanted to organize my flip videos – I wanted them moved into a folder named after their creation date. One of the scripts that I found uses ls’s “–time-style” parameter. BSD’s ls does not have this value. MacPorts’ coreutils port contains gls (GNU’s ls) that does support the parameter. So here is my script…
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New to my PowerShell Profile: VMware PowerCLI
This will add the PowerShell CLI tools if they exist. Thanks to this thread