Jochen Hayek's Blog

Instead you may want to enquire ${#tarfiles[@]}, i.e. the number of files globbed.

Please forgive me the naming here! I was happy to take this note anyway.

DITA for Print (A tutorial introduction to the DITA Open Toolkit FO/PDF stylesheets):

DITA for Practitioners Volume 1: "Architecture and Technology" (comprehensive guide to DITA for implementors):

http://xmlpress.net/publications/dita/practitioners-1/
http://dita4practitioners.org – "DITA for Practitioners Volume 1"'s companion website
http://dita4practitioners.com/forums
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HACK 05: Monitor the Raspberry Pi Hardware

HACK 08: Get More USB Ports: bus powered USB hubs vs. externally powered USB hubs, backpower

HACK 20: Add Additional Memory with Swap (do not swap on SD cards and USB flash drives!)

HACK 21: Build a Cross-Compiler Toolchain; on openSuSE:

$ sudo zypper install gcc gcc-c++ bison make ncurses-devel texinfo flex gperf libtool sed subversion gmp-devel libstdc++-devel; # there is no libstdc++-static
instead of crosstool-ng-1.18.0.tar.bz2 I got crosstool-ng-1.19.0.tar.bz2
completed building crosstool-ng like this: $ sudo make install
$ mkdir /usr/local/cross-sandbox && cd /usr/local/cross-sandbox
set prefix directory to /usr/local/x-tools/${CT_TARGET}
$ env -u LD_LIBRARY_PATH ct-ng build # because it does not like LD_LIBRARY_PATH set
*** I am stuck here ***

Apart from pushing the radio out of the task manager's list (i.e. killing the command), I have not found means against this yet.

http://www.perl.org/books/library.html

Most of these books you can read online completely.

Rather reasonable and entertaining reading as the same time.

In the future I will certainly refer people to his page, whenever I will happen to find an opportunity.

… . The choice of present perfect or past tense depends on the frame of reference (period or point in time) in which the event is conceived as occurring. … . If the frame of reference extends to the present time, the present perfect is used. … . If the frame of reference is a time in the past, or a period which ended in the past, the past tense is used instead. …

The use of present perfect resp. past tense is quite different (as described above [link]), and German native speakers confuse their use in English a lot; by my experience they rather resist accepting the difference and applying them properly in English. (This is rather annoying.)

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$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
reboot afterwards
…
2.6. Connecting with a Console Lead (using a serial terminal connection and a remote login program like "cu" AKA "call unix" or kermit)
2.9. File Sharing on a Mac Network (using netatalk)
2.10. Sharing the Pi Screen on a Mac (using VNC)
3.6. Editing a File (using the nano editor)
3.15. Making a Screen Capture (using scrot)
3.16. Installing Software with apt-get
3.17. Removing Software Installed with apt-get
3.26. Listing Connected USB Devices (using lsusb)
4 Software
4.3. Installing other Browsers (chromium-browser, iceweasel (Firefox))
4.4. Using the Pi Store [link]
13.4. Displaying Messages on an Alphanumeric LCD
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$ sudo raspi-config
$ cat /proc/version
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
http://elinux.org/RPi_Hub – Raspberry Pi Wiki
http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeripherals
the Scratch programming language [wiki] – an educational programming language
the Arduino microcontroller development platform
it has general purpose input and output pins right on the board
…

You should rather not and leave the set-up with its defaults.

actimeo=0 disables file and directory attribute caching. Only use it like this, if there are very good reasons for it.

Even en.wikipedia.org knows that name ("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspi"), so maybe it's at least quite usual.

It's fun to see the Raspberry Pi running headless on my desk.

As described earlier, I set up my Raspi back at home with a screen (connected via HDMI/DVI), a keyboard, a mouse, and attached via eth0 (AKA LAN), later also via wlan0 (AKA wifi).

Now I would like to boot it in "headless mode". My wifi router's ESSID is different here. I start with a LAN connection. It's amazing: I runs w/o my intervention w/o screen, keyboard, and mouse. And I can connect to it with ssh through the network.

So the challenge is to add another wifi access point with its details. I found everything I needed here:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=5590

…

I create the new wpa_supplicant.conf entry (on stdout) using the wpa_passphrase command.
I add it to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf .
I add "auto wlan0" to /etc/network/interfaces .
After "/etc/init.d/networking restart" or a reboot (w/o a connection through eth0) everything is fine.

Before (and after) modifying configuration files I always create backup copies of them using my utility create_snapshot.sh (resp. create_snapshot.txt). Works on my Linux-s and AIX as well. Initially it was a Korn Shell script, now it's a bash script.

Now the Raspi could join my UMTS router and my NAS sitting in the "black box" below my desk (in the office at my customer's site). Well, if it sits there, it can also be connected via eth0 as well. But now being connected through wifi , it could just sit anywhere within the "realm" of my wifis. But I still enjoy this discreet white box on my desk.

Update:
Added these two lines to my ~/.ssh/config :

Host raspberrypi
User pi

That allows you to "ssh raspberrypi" instead of "ssh pi@raspberrypi".

Adding your "public key" to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys also helps logging in the "private / public keys way" instead of supplying a password.

Relational Theory for Computer Professionals:

There are literally hundreds of books on relational theory or the SQL language, or both. But this one is different. First, nobody is more qualified than Chris Date to write such a book; Ted Codd, inventor of the relational model, and he were colleagues for many years, and his involvement with the technology goes all the way back to the time of Codd’s very first papers, in 1969-1970. Second, most books try to use SQL as a vehicle for teaching relational theory, but this book very deliberately takes the opposite approach. Its primary aim is to teach relational theory as such.

Industrial Internet:

Consumer networks have revolutionized the way companies understand and reach their customers, making possible intricate measurement and accurate prediction at every step of every transaction. The same revolution is underway in our infrastructure, where new generations of sensor-laden power plants, cars and medical devices will generate vast quantities of data that could bring about improvements in quality, reliability and cost. Big machines will enter the modern era of big data, where they’ll be subject to constant analysis and optimization.

The promise of the industrial Internet is that it will bring intelligence to industries that are capital-intensive and create broad value that all of the industrial Internet’s participants will share.

This report examines the industrial Internet across several industries. It describes both near-term efforts as well as the longer-term development that will emerge as software and machines further integrate.

The New Kingmakers:

The New Kingmakers documents the rise of the developer class, and provides strategies for companies to adapt to the new technology landscape. From recruiting to retention, it provides a playbook to work more efficiently and effectively with the most important members of your organization.

Jump Start Sinatra:

This short SitePoint book provides readers with a fun and yet practical introduction to Sinatra, a framework that makes web development with Ruby extremely simple. It's not intended to be a completely comprehensive guide to the framework or an in-depth Ruby tutorial, but will quickly get you up to speed with Sinatra and give you the confidence to start experimenting on your own.

The book is built around a real-life example project: a content management system. It's a fun and easily understandable project that is used to demonstrate the concepts outlined in the book in a practical way.

This is a clear, approachable and very easy-to-follow book that will get you to to speed with Sinatra in no time.

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Raspberry Pi

Improving the Test Process:

This book covers the syllabus for the Improving the Test Process module of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Expert Level exam.

To obtain certification as a professional tester at the Expert Level, candidates may choose to take a course given by an ISTQB accredited training provider and then sit for the exam. Experience shows that many candidates who choose this path still require a reference book that covers the course. There are also many IT professionals who choose self-study as the most appropriate route toward certification.

This book can be used both as a preparation guide for those planning to take the ISTQB Expert Level certification exam and as a practical guide for experienced testing professionals who want to develop their skills in improving test processes.

Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2:

Speak directly to your system. With itssimple commands, flags, and parameters, a well-formed command-lineapplication is the quickest way to automate a backup, a build, or adeployment and simplify your life. With this book, you'll learnspecific ways to write command-line applications that are easy touse, deploy, and maintain, using a set of clear best practices andthe Ruby programming language. This book is designed to makeany programmer or system administrator moreproductive in their job. Now updated for Ruby2.

http://www.packtpub.com/raspberry-pi-networking-cookbook/book

Raspberry Pi Media Center | Packt Publishing

HTML5: The Missing Manual:

HTML5 is more than a markup language—it's a dozen independent web standards all rolled into one. Until now, all it's been missing is a manual. With this thorough, jargon-free guide, you'll learn how to build web apps that include video tools, dynamic drawings, geolocation, offline web apps, drag-and-drop, and many other features. HTML5 is the future of the Web, and with this book you'll reach it quickly.

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | The Agile Samurai

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Pomodoro Technique Illustrated

The Dream Team Nightmare:

This first-ever interactive Agile Adventure is the gripping tale of an experienced team struggling with agile adoption. In this unique mashup of a business novel written in the gamebook format, you'll overcome common yet daunting challenges that come from using agile methods. As Jim, the agile coach, you'll learn to apply a range of thinking tools and techniques to real-life problems faced by teams and organizations. Find out what really works and what fails miserably from the consequences of your choices. And, unlike in the real world, if at first you don't succeed, you can make different choices until you get things right.

Heroku: Up and Running:

Take full advantage of Heroku’scloud-based hosting services. This guide takes you through theinner workings of this PaaS platform and delivers practical advicefor architecting your application to work as efficiently aspossible. You’ll learn best practices for improving speedand throughput, solving latency issues, locating and fixingproblems if your application goes down, and ensuring yourdeployments go smoothly.

Python Pocket Reference:

Updated to cover Python 2.7 and 3.4, this compact reference is the perfect on-the-job tool for developing applications with this versatile programming language. By covering the core language as well as commonly-used libraries, this small but potent book both serves as an ideal complement to Python tutorials. This fifth edition includes specific built-in types and Statements, and standard Modules.

ZooKeeper:

Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. This practical guide shows how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic. Even with ZooKeeper, implementing coordination tasks is not trivial, but this book provides good practices to give you a head start, and points out caveats that developers and administrators alike need to watch for along the way.

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mavericks Edition:

Ready to move to the Mac? This incomparable guide helps you make a smooth transition. New York Times columnist and Missing Manuals creator David Pogue gets you past four challenges: syncing with iOS, transferring your stuff, assembling Mac programs so you can do what you did with Windows, and learning your way around OS X Mavericks.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781937434274.do:

DITA for Print takes you step-by-step through the process of building a print customization plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit that will give you control over your PDF output.

A tutorial introduction to the DITA Open Toolkit FO/PDF stylesheets.

Should I use a USB-attachable external disk for swapping? (I do have a few "spare" ones)
…

To be continued …

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/raspberrypi-1704896.html by Bill Courington and Gary Collins

It includes a lot of useful Linux tweaks, that you may want to apply apart from installing Java SE anyway.

Resize the SD Card Partitions:

About half the card’s space is unallocated. The biggest chunk of free space follows the /dev/sdb3 partition. To add this space to /dev/sdb2 (the file system), we temporarily delete /dev/sdb3, extend /dev/sdb2, then re-create /dev/sdb3.

I started making use of the "Java SE" label with this article. Should apply it elsewhere as well.

It has a section "Optional Linux Tuning and Tweaking":

Set Up Static IP Address
Enable Swapping and Optimize File System Access Time
Set Time Zone and Locale
Set Up a Time Server
Set Up an Internet Proxy
Remap the Keyboard
Update Debian Packages
Automatically Start the Graphical User Interface
Add a Different Web Browser
Enable Sound

Do I really want to swap on the SD card? They discourage it there.

The "Raspberry Pi" is my second encounter with Debian, ASUS's early "Eee PC" was the first. I need to refresh and extend my knowledge there.

wiki.debian.org – as always: prefer the wiki over "offline maintained documentation"
wiki.debian.org/SystemAdministration
wiki.debian.org/Locale
…
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/
…
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html : Debian package management: dpkg-*, *-apt-*, aptitude, synaptic, …
…
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/refcard/
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/refcard/refcard.en.pdf
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool – the APT collection of tools: *-apt-*, aptitude, synaptic, …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dpkg – the software at the base of the Debian package management system: dpgk-*
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http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dpkg
http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=apt
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Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks:

Your software needs to leverage multiple cores, handle thousands of users and terabytes of data, and continue working in the face of both hardware and software failure. Concurrency and parallelism are the keys, and Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks equips you for this new world. See how emerging technologies such as actors and functional programming address issues with traditional threads and locks development. Learn how to exploit the parallelism in your computer's GPU and leverage clusters of machines with MapReduce and Stream Processing. And do it all with the confidence that comes from using tools that help you write crystal clear, high-quality code.

http://www.phpmyadmin.net

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
Conrad @ Berlin, Schöneberg [link]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Wheezy
http://www.raspberrypi.org/

I found a cooperative employee at the Conrad branch, who got me all the things I needed, including Wheezy on an SD card. But I didn't know, how and which monitor I would attach, so that's what I have to solve on my 2nd related visit at the shop. I am rather hot to see it booting soon.

Unnecessary:

I should not have purchased the mega-sized AVM wifi dongle.
I should have found out before (at least before getting the converter), how to connect the Pi to monitors.

Update 2013-12-08:

got me more HDMI-DVI-adpaters yesterday, with cables,
should have gotten me a USB hub as well, as there are only 2 USB plugs,
well, the USB mouse went into the (playstation2) keyboard,
the EDIMAX wifi dongle found its plug,
got it booted,
got it connected via LAN to the Internet,
got wifi set up through WPS.
had to stop my experiments in favour of son#2.

This IS different to KDE and GNOME:

(apparently) you cannot set up the date/time format centraly,
even not the timezone.
you also cannot set up the virtual desktops in a grid.
…

But it IS Linux / Unix, and it is X-Windows, and it connects to the Internet, and there is a modern browser, …

I created a separate "bookmark article" on Java SE on the Raspberry Pi, cf. the "Raspberry Pi" label on this blog

http://hyperpolyglot.org/build

Includes a table listing all their features and showing how the others deal with it.

Make allows you to insert a dash between the tab and before the statement in order to ignore that statement's exit code. The other build tools do not have that feature.

http://www.linuxmisc.com/11-unix-aix/994cba5a5792b68b.htm

I came across this phenomenon in various contexts on AIX.

It really sounds like "text file busy" from the old Unix days.

Looks like the guys who misuse this error message for there miserable situations actually mean "cannot open or remove a file". I call this capturing.

Looks like some variants of the "copy" utility (like CPAN File::Copy) use this error message instead of "no such file or directory". Maybe this happens in concurrent environments / situations, where a file disappears between the call to File::Copy and the actual kernel "open". Once "open" has a file handle, the inode access counter gets incremented, and the file cannot really disappear any longer, as long as it remains open ie. did not get closed again.

To be continue …

PacktPub--Instant_Nokogiri.20130826122153.pdf (ruby xml)
TidBITS--Take_Control_of_Your_Online_Privacy.20130827161623.pdf
nostarch--Book_of_GIMP.20130128094115.pdf
nostarch--Perl_One_Liners.20131101112448.pdf (perl)
rockynook--Testing_Cloud_Services.20130826101828.pdf (testing)

The wiki seems to be more useful than the book [link]. I added a few notes on the roles at the entry on the book here on the blog at http://blog-en.jochen.hayek.name/2013/05/oreilly-media-book-rt-essentials.html.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

That's rather bad with my long running applications like the Chromium browser or my virtual machines running within VirtualBox. I have to stop the browser or even VirtualBox itself. And just a few minutes "ago", VirtualBox even aborted abruptly without saving the states of the virtual machines. I hate that.

http://www.avm.de/de/Service/Service-Portale/Labor/
Die 7390 ist zwar hardware-ausstattungs-mäßig nicht mehr das Flaggschiff, hat aber immer noch die modernste Firmware, nämlich die "06.00".
Die 7490 hat anscheinend noch Stabilitätsprobleme; man bekommt irgendwie häufig Beta-Firmware-Updates angeboten, die neueste ist die "05.60-27017". Ich leiste mir "gerade" den Kick, den Update meines Heim-Routers aus der Ferne anzustoßen.
Bin mal gespannt, wann die 7490 tatsächlich das Flaggschiff wird. Hätte irgendwie bisher keines der Alleinstellungsmerkmale der 7490 gegenüber der 7390 gebraucht, aber durch die kleine Austauschwelle konnte ich den Haushalt von Sohn #2 mit einer 7270 versorgen, mit der sich seine tägliche Internet-Zugriffszeit wesentlich besser regulieren lässt als mit dem alten DSL-Minimal-Router.

I will consider employing this module sooner or later. And Perl::Critic as well …

http://experts.blurgroup.com/technology/

I have no idea, how useful it is resp. for which side. I received a message on LinkedIn, and I thought, I might bookmark it here.

http://missilehugger.com/203/

I think, I will use his description for setting up Java on my Synology NAS (resp. NASs), so that I can run the Hibiscus Server (implemented in Java) on them. My NAS at home has plenty of Internet bandwith available, so that I can get my bank account transactions updated over the Internet quite often each day.

Oracle's description on "Oracle Java SE Embedded Downloads":

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/downloads/javase/index.html

For the DS112+ I chose the "ARMv5 Linux" entry "successfully". The ARMv6/7 and ARMv7 entries did not run at all.

For the DS213+ I chose the "Power Architecture Linux - … - e500v2" entry "successfully".

http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/
http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/install.php
http://www.willuhn.de/products/hibiscus-server/support.php
http://www.willuhn.de/wiki/ – I don't see Hisbiscus Server mentioned
http://www.onlinebanking-forum.de/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=33
http://www.willuhn.de/bugzilla

With the hibiscus-server running on (let's say) your current machine at port 8080 (AKA https://localhost:8080), you have a few rather useful services available:

https://localhost:8080/hibiscus/ – the "Hibiscus Management Console" – this is where you enter your HBCI accounts and where you can view account statements etc
https://localhost:8080/webadmin/ – the "Jameica Management Console" for the Hibiscus Server
https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest.html – the Management Console shows a link "REST Services" listing available REST services, amongst others the list of accounts and list of transactions … (see below)
https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/list – a JSON list of the accounts, of course with details
https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/2/umsaetze/days/999 – a JSON list of transactions on account "2" (you can find acount "2" described above) during the last 999 days
All that is implemented in Java.

I would love to see this running on my Synology NAS at home with plenty of Internet bandwith available, so that I can get my bank account transactions updated over the Internet a few times each day.

These days Synology does not supply Java on their devices – I assume, they do not want to get officially bothered with Java difficulties on their devices. But still here I found a description of how to install Oracle Java SE on a Synology NAS:

http://missilehugger.com/203/

Wth the "https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/…" REST services listed above I get hold off account data rather, rather easily like this:

$ curl --sslv3 --insecure \
--user jameica:PASSWORD \
https://localhost:8080/webadmin/rest/hibiscus/konto/list

Now I prefer developing software using Perl, and I will make use of the JSON lists in Perl, and that should be rather easy. I think, I am going to abandon my web-scraping scripts in Perl, once all this is in place. Web-scraping banking web-sites is a rather tedious business, whereas HBCI is a confirmed banking standard in this country (Germany), and I consider the Hibiscus Server as a rather either way to deal with the HBCI Moloch AKA FinTS.

…:

http://www.willuhn.de/wiki/doku.php?id=support:list:banken:misc:pintan – bank details needed to set up an HBCI account

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache

I would really like to achieve that with my recently set up wiki, but so far to no success.

http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/SL/XQuartz-2.7.5.dmg

I would love to do it immediately, but I guess the DMG is big and I shouldn't do it through mobile phone Internet.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area
SDD – SEPA Direct Debit, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Debit
…

Perl One-Liners:

Perl One-Liners showcases 130 short and compelling lines of code that do all sorts of handy, geeky things.

Created a subMain.
There were a lot of "my"-s outside any subroutine, moved them as "our"-s to subMain – not the same visibility, I know.
Outside subMain these "our"-s need to get accessed as "main::…".
But actually we don't like global variables at all, so pass them as parameters or …
…

http://www.malibal.com/notebooks/nine-x570se/

Would be interesting to run it

on a (Synology) NAS – "busybox" on a variety of CPUS
or on a Raspberry Pi – e.g. Debian Wheezy
or …

http://www.synology.com/dsm/dsm_app.php?lang=enu#dsm_app_content_tabs_by_3rd_party
E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarafa_(software) is only available on ARM and x86 based platforms, and the list doesn't say that.

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Pattern-Matching.html

I had to "shopt -s extglob" for that.

I inserted the shopt line rather close to the case statement, where the Extended Pattern Matching gets employed. That was inside a loop. That had no effect, but it didn't say so. I rather threw some weird error messages. I reduced the code around the causing line to its minimum, occasionally moved the shopt to outside the loop, and it worked. If it had only been that straigt …

… check, whether the remote side considers authorized_keys or authorized_keys2:

# supposedly only one of them exists:
$ fgrep AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/sshd_config
AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys

This is certainly just one possible reason, if public keys do not get accepted by the remote side.

For a couple of weeks I got asked the remote password instead, and I did not understand why. My local public key was properly listed in the remote .ssh/authorized_keys2, but only today I took the time to investigate the issue, and I got reminded of this well-known reason: my remote .ssh/authorized_keys2 simply did not get considered at all. The remote ssh looks at my remote .ssh/authorized_keys, because it got set up like that – see above!

http://originwww.synology.com/support/news.php?lang=us&news_id=421
http://originwww.synology.com/support/news.php?lang=enu&news_id=419
the DS214+ is faster CPUwise and has double the memory of the DS213+, but it also seems to get sold cheaper – I certainly wouldn't need the 2nd Gigabit LAN plug, but then …
the DS214+ is my new 2-bay NAS favourite

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Filename-Expansion.html

w/o this command line:

$ shopt -s nullglob

a glob pattern, that does not successfully evaluate to existing file names, gets literally resolved to a file name identical to the glob pattern.
With the above command line executed already, this command line will print file infos of /etc/passwd and ignore the unsuccessful other two glob patterns:

$ ll /etc/passwd /etc/passwd? /etc/passwd??

In interactive mode you may want to see the error messages, within a shell script supplying all three parameters to a "for f in …" loop, you will want the unresolving ones to get ignored.

$ for f in /etc/passwd /etc/passwd? /etc/passwd??; do echo $f; done

Well, at least in my script today I found this option rather useful.

I tried to find something comparable in the Korn Shell, but I wasn't successful.

http://9to5toys.com/2013/11/05/synology-unleashes-its-most-affordable-2-bay-nas-ever-the-ds214se-for-160/
http://www.synology.com/products/spec.php?product_name=DS214se&lang=enu
http://www.synology.com/products/spec.php?product_name=DS213%2B&lang=enu

You may want to compare the specs of the DS213+ and the DS214se. I still quite like to own the DS213+.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Customizing-VC.html

I am working for a customer

on WinXP
with GNU Emacs 24.2.1
through Tramp
resp. putty plink ("pscp")
on AIX files.

They are using CVS on AIX, but as I am actually the only Emacs user there, I don't really bother going through the set-up for using Emacs with CVS on WinXP.

Recently I looked into *tramp/pscp HOSTNAME*, and I decided I would be able cutting down on my waiting time, if I drastically reduced the list of files and directories being checked through VC in that environment.

I really don't mind the VC overhead on OS X or (SUSE) Linux, but in that difficult environment I rather want to proceed as described.

I found vc-handled-backends and customized it the Emacs way, and I was done.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Informix_C-ISAM
http://IsamCentral.com – Byte Designs' IsamCentral
http://www.connx.com/products/disam.html

http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/10/more-instantly-better-vim.html (a presentation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/2247 = Damian Conway at oreilly.com as author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)

Derived cvsrevs from rcsrevs, and cvsgrep from rcsgrep. This is really nice!! Imagine this:

$ cvsgrep -a SEARCHME files…

I knew, rcsgrep and sisters would be very, very useful.

svngrep should be quite useful as well.

No, I don't want to get crash reports sent out automatically, no, no, no!

https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/os-x-mavericks/id675248567

These applications are experiencing trouble now after installing OS X 10.9:

https://adium.im – crashes …

Richard Horwood on "Virtualbox, iSCSI targets and teleport" (2010) (somebody mentions there, that addiscsidisk got replaced and explains how)
Johannes Schlüter on "iSCSI devices in VirtualBox" (2010)
http://www.synology.com/us/solutions/iSCSI/

iSCSI supposes Gigabit LAN, so that's a good reason to replace my last non-Gigabit FRITZ!Box by a Gigabit one.

Somebody will get my last FRITZ!Box 7270 (non-Gigabit), and I will get me a new FRITZ!Box 7490.

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As opposed to the reviewers on IMDb I like the stories (broadcast on 2013-10-13 and 2013-10-20 on ZDF.de) – although just as a simple-minded viewer.

(I am writing this in English, as all the articles referred to are in English, too.)

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In this article by Hunter Powers, author of the book Instant Nokogiri, you will get an insight about Nokogiri the open source library to parse XML and HTML in Ruby.

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First I tried to employ WordPress on my Synology NAS for that, but that does not look trivial at the 2nd look.

http://wordpress.org/tags/multiblog – "WordPress › Support » Tags — multiblog"
http://wordpress.org/tags/multisite – …
http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network – looks like a nice description of how to proceed to "create a network of sites"

Actually … – at the link(s) above they show an RSS feed link for a specific tag – maybe that's good enough for my purposes – maybe not.

My WordPress installation on my NAS:

Before I start fiddling in the way described for multi-site WordPress installations (patching various PHP files), I am tempted to upgrade to the very latest WordPress release available.
But of course with Synology DSM, you are a little restricted …
…

Looks like this is not my last and successful attempt to get going with WordPress.

Facit: It works for simple purposes, but in my situation (blogging at least separately in English and in German) it's not yet for me. With blogger.com it's rather easy to have separate blogs. And if you are cautious enough, particular ones can really be considered as anonymous.

Update …:
I assume, I have more flexibility, if I install WordPress on my web space at shuttle.de rather than on my NAS. It's Debian there.

Update 2013-12-25:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Beltranrubo/BitNami_Multisite – their installer requires to be run as root, that does not work for me on the site, where I intended to make use of it

I am not sure, whether I will go for a "sub-domains" (AKA domain-based) or for "sub-directories" (AKA path-based).

I am using "sub-domains" with blogger.com so far, but certainly only because there was no other option.

I assume, "sub-directory" will cause not as much Apache fiddling. Just "jochen.hayek.name/blog-en" and "jochen.hayek.name/blog-de" and so forth to be set up (more or less) separately …

Update 2013-12-25:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
unpack the tar.gz into subdirectory wordpress
add the line mentioning WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE as descibed within "Create A Network"
visit the readme.html of my wordpress subdirectory in a browser and do as described there

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https://www.united-domains.de

There is not a web GUI way to configure that, but when I asked them over the phone, they just asked me to give them the details, and the task got accomplished within less than 2 hours.

Now I am able to reach my home network with a really nice FQDN.

Next steps:

blogs are run "by myself at home" (WordPress), no longer by blogger.com i.e. Google
I can tell you individual photo album URLs pointing to my NAS at home – and also music album URLs etc – this has been long waited for
Synology has a rather interesting photo album blogging service running on their NASs
I can have my own network reachable wiki "at home"
…

Yes, I know, if my NAS's intrusion detection is too weak, than …

A long PATH… makes the OS …

"… access the disk quite often, hence there is a lot of disk I/O" – do you agree?
"… compute a lot of …, hence a high CPU load" – do you agree?
…

I got involved in a rather "controversial" discussion on that. I voted for (1). What are you voting for?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIBPATH

I have no idea for how long it will survive the storms on en.wikipedia.org. I still just felt like I really should start it.

On AIX (apparently with some OS/2 ancestry) it means basically the same as LD_LIBRARY_PATH elsewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIBPATH had gotten redirected to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONFIG.SYS#LIBPATH, but LIBPATH is a meaningful environment variable on AIX as well. (There it means basically the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LD_LIBRARY_PATH.) So I wanted to create a disambiguation article for LIBPATH instead of the "redirect thing". That article helped me doing so.

A long PATH… makes the OS …

"… access the disk quite often, hence there is a lot of disk I/O" – do you agree?
"… compute a lot of …, hence a high CPU load" – do you agree?
…

I got involved in a rather "controversial" discussion on that. I voted for (1). What are you voting for?

I posted this issue at http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/238465-long-path-ld_library_path-libpath-what-kind-performance-impact-do-they-have.html as well.

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/lexnames.html

An article on symlinks in Unix.

ABSTRACT
Symbolic links make the Unix file system non-hierarchical, resulting in multiple valid path names for a given file. This ambiguity is a source of confusion, especially since some shells work overtime to present a consistent view from programs such as pwd, while other programs and the kernel itself do nothing about the problem.
Plan 9 has no symbolic links but it does have other mechanisms that produce the same difficulty. Moreover, Plan 9 is founded on the ability to control a program’s environment by manipulating its name space. Ambiguous names muddle the result of operations such as copying a name space across the network.
To address these problems, the Plan 9 kernel has been modified to maintain an accurate path name for every active file (open file, working directory, mount table entry) in the system. The definition of ‘accurate’ is that the path name for a file is guaranteed to be the rooted, absolute name the program used to acquire it. These names are maintained by an efficient method that combines lexical processing—such as evaluating .. by just removing the last path name element of a directory—with local operations within the file system to maintain a consistently, easily understood view of the name system. Ambiguous situations are resolved by examining the lexically maintained names themselves.
A new kernel call, fd2path, returns the file name associated with an open file, permitting the use of reliable names to improve system services ranging from pwd to debugging. Although this work was done in Plan 9, Unix systems could also benefit from the addition of a method to recover the accurate name of an open file or the current directory.

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http://www.synology.com/support/faq_show.php?q_id=392&lang=enu – Synology Knowledge Base: "What USB speakers and DACs does Synology product support?" (bad English)
http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/User_Reported_Compatible_USB_Speakers – strange wiki, you cannot get a user account there
http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/872300/USB-20-Headset-Adapter – works with my DS213+ under DSM 4.3 – costs just € 10

www.heise.de/ct/13/22/links/118.shtml – in German: "Netzwerkspeicher als TV-Server und -Empfänger"

It needs the following software:

http://dvblogic.com/en/software/synology/
http://dvblogic.com/en/software/synology-arm-marvel-kirkwood/ – DS112+ (???)
http://dvblogic.com/en/software/synology-powerpc/ – DS213+

These two mentioned diskstations are compatible with these two DVB-C USB connectable devices:

http://www.tbsdtv.com/products/tbs-dvb-c-usb-stick.html : TBS USB DVB-C TV Stick
https://www.tbs-technology.de/shop/product_info.php?products_id=21 for about € 60+5
at amazon.de [link] for about € 63+5
at geizhals.net [no link currently]

http://www.tbsdtv.com/products/tbs5680-dvb-c-tv-tuner-ci-usb.html : TBS5680 DVB-C TV Tuner CI USB
https://www.tbs-technology.de/shop/product_info.php?products_id=20 for about € 89+5
at amazon.de [no link currently]
at geizhals.net [link] for about € 95+…

This DVB-T2 /-T/-C USB connectable device would be my favourite, if it were supported by dvblogic for the NAS-s mentioned above and also for the Raspberry Pi:

https://www.tbs-technology.de/shop/product_info.php?products_id=34

Urban Dictionary: Catmatism

A person who adopts a positive and revolutionary changes accordingly without being stubborn or stereotyped, is supposed to follow Catmatism. (sp?)

displays each file with its name before its content:
$ head -999 file-a file-b file-c

displays each file with its name before each line of its content:
$ pipegrep '' cat file-a file-b file-c

Search the web for pipegrep, if you are interested in it! It is written in one word.

I wondered, how I could achieve that on various Unix platforms, and I ran the following command on my Linux box:

$ man -k base64
base64 (1) - base64 encode/decode data and print to standard output
MIME::Base64 (3pm) - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings

Right the utility base64 (beloning to GNU coreutils) would do it, if it were broadly available; on AIX you can't expect GNU coreutils to be installed.

The MIME::Base64 man page shows a nice perl one-liner making use of a perl module, which is rather likely to be installed:

$ perl -MMIME::Base64 -ne 'print decode_base64($_)'

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Talks Danish, English, and German.

RMA - Wiktionary

a couple of nice utilities from their sample code:

rcsgrep, rcsegrep, rcsfgrep - check out files and grep/egrep/fgrep them – is there somthing similar for subversion etc.?
…

Update 2013-10-23:

Derived cvsrevs from rcsrevs, and cvsgrep from rcsgrep. This is really nice!! Imagine this:

$ cvsgrep -a SEARCHME files…

[Chapter 27] 27.13 More grep-like Programs Written in Perl (an outdated but still useful "Unix Power Tools" edition somewhere on a web-server discusses it)

The pipegrep program greps the output of a series of commands. The difficulty with doing this using the normal grep program is that you lose track of which file was being processed. This program prints out the command it was executing at the time, including the filename. The command, which is a single argument, will be executed once for each file in the list. If you give the string {} anywhere in the command, the filename will be substituted at that point. Otherwise the filename will be added on to the end of the command. This program has one option, -l, which causes it to list the files containing the pattern.

Follow the above link for a nice example!

I remembered the pipegrep utility today, because I came across a task …

Update 2013-10-17:

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http://examples.oreilly.com/9780937175644/ – there you find the code in a TAR ball

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GNU Coding Standards: Option Table

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For a thirty second quickstart, look at http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/guides/quickstart!

EmacsWiki: Untabify Upon Save

There are colleagues, that don't want to see tabs in scripts sources, that I edited.

Apparently there isn't a nice switch saying, that there shouldn't be tabs in a certain file.

booting a self-signed Linux kernel - Linux Kernel Monkey Log

Procedures for how to boot a self-signed Linux kernel on a platform so that you do not have to rely on any external signing authority.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unterbrechungsfreie_Stromversorgung
www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=BE700G-GR
www.conrad.de/ce/de/product/973577/APC-Back-UPS-BE700G-USV-700-VA – I purchased it in their Berlin-Schöneberg store [link]

Now my Synology DS213+ (NAS) gets its power from the UPS, and the UPS also controls USB-wise, when the NAS goes to "Safe Mode". For the USB-connected NAS, this is "local UPS support". This Synology device is now the "Synology UPS server", that controls, the remaining Synology DiskStations powered by the UPS.
My Synology DS112+ (NAS) uses the DS213+ as "Synology UPS server".

It feels well, to have your NAS-s powered by your UPS.

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User Reported Compatible Uninterruptible Power Supplies - SynologyWiki

Emacs Daily Build 2013-09-11 »:
Universal Binary built on Mac OS X 10.6.8, 45.89 MB.
See the differences from the last build.

ack - grep-like text finder - metacpan.org - Perl programming language

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPT

I am curious, how long this entry will survive there. It's actually not referring to an existing article on the Perl Power Tools. It's just meant to tell "the reader", hey, there are these nice Perl Power Tools out there, and they also get abbreviated as PPT.

Well, yes, I could create a wikipedia stub page, but it would only have these 2 links:

And maybe some short text with like 30 words from the first of these 2 links.

But for how long would this stub article survive on wikipedia?

date (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/date-invocation.html – the GNU date root manual page

GNU's date lets you specify yesterday, tomorrow, Sunday, … to be displayed following the format specification you supply. And (if available) you can also get nanoseconds displayed. Please do not complain, that precisions between nanoseconds and seconds are missing!

Maybe on your UNIX flavor computer GNU date is installed as gnudate or gdate (just like: gnutar, gtar, …).

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