Some very old poetry of mine

Tears

waves with foam frothing tips of crispy dew wash the ocean floor,
with rainbow colour shells sparkling in the dwindling light of a gray moon.
the sky has a darkness that seems to swallow the light,
only a shimmering line of the moon can be seen, no joy
in this sky, it drips tears of blackness upon the land
spreading like disease it covers all.
pray that this darkness never comes because the coldness it brings has never been felt,
it will cut ever living being down one by one until there is no more,
    for tears of darkness are never wiped dry.

Green

if grass is green what can be greener?

the flowers in my garden speak of grass that is greener,
        but I say I know better…
the pine trees on the hill tops speak of grass that is greener,
        but I say I know better…
the sparkling streams filled with sunlight speak of grass that is greener,
        but I say I know better…
the grass on the road side says it’s greener,
        but is grass really green?

Some nice addons for Ubuntu

Get those codecs to play all media formats and dvds:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-mplayer-and-multimedia-codecs-libdvdcss2w32codecsw64codecs-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic.html

Get cntlm to get through those M$ ISA proxies:

sudo apt-get install cntlm

Then just edit the
/etc/cntlm.conf
and fill in the proxy details then restart it with
/etc/init.d/cntlm restart
Then export your proxy and your in business :-)
export http://localhost:3128/

How to Listen to Streaming Radio on Ubuntu

Ok so I wanted to listen to Highveld radio on Ubuntu. Only problem was their website only seemed to catered for Windows. So after some digging I found the mms stream URL and gave it a try with:
mplayer mms://196.35.64.36/highveld_22
but got this:
connect error: Connection refused
No stream found to handle url mms://196.35.64.36/highveld_22

So I just changed it to:
mplayer http://196.35.64.36/highveld_22

and we're in business :-)

Our New Anthem - Eish :-|

VPN Issues on Ubuntu

Well this one has been causing me to pull my hair out for a couple of weeks. I was using the Cisco VPN client for Linux put got really tried of having to recompile it every time I did a Kernel update. So I switched over to vpnc the VPN stuff which works under network manager in Ubuntu. At first it seemed to work nice, but I found the connection was 'freezing' after I sshed into a server over the VPN. An example of this would be ssh to server, then run ls which works fine, then run ls -l and the connection 'freezes'. If I open another terminal sesssion to the server it would open fine, but ls and then ls -l would 'freeze' the connection. So after some digging our found out it had have something to do with my MTU setting. I still have a Windows VM and tested out the VPN their and used putty to ssh to the server and had no issues. I tried setting the MTU on my eth0 or wlan0 but no joy. Finally I found I needed to set the MTU on the tun0 connection like this to get it to work:

sudo ifconfig tun0 mtu 576

This mtu is very small, but I think its a setting on their side that maybe someones forgot to update since the days of dail-up connections. I am also glad to report the VPN connection is now working 'sharp-sharp'. :-)

How to rename file extentions in Linux

This is a nice command to basically rename all .csv files in a directory to .bak

for x in *.csv; do mv "$x" "${x%.dot}.bak"; done

Axis 2 get client's IP address

This seems to be the easiest way to do it:

MessageContext msgContext = MessageContext.getCurrentMessageContext();
String ip = (String) msgContext.getProperty(MessageContext.REMOTE_ADDR);


Also required:

import org.apache.axis2.context.MessageContext;

Eclispe Button Problem on Ubuntu 9.10

Had a problem with Eclipse where I could not click on the buttons after upgrading to 9.10

This fixed it:

#!/bin/bash
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
/opt/eclipse-3.5/eclipse

Source: http://www.norio.be/blog/2009/10/problems-eclipse-buttons-ubuntu-910

A friends plot photos

Netgear Router DGN 2000 piece of CRAP

Just a word of warning don't touch this piece of hardware, all I can say is it is guaranteed to give you a head ache and it uses this crapy url to setup itself
www.routerlogin.com/start.htm

PS Good luck with all the DNS issues you'll have too, and no wait there's no firmware update to fix any of there issues, just work arounds :-o

Ubuntu Cisco VPN

It works nice:

Here's my post on the keyring issue "Invalid VPN Secrets "

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1193786&page=2

New version of GFS on the way?

Nice:

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1594206

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/venti/

Disable PC Speaker on Ubuntu

The pc speaker can be a pain, here's what to do to disable it:

sudo modprobe -r pcspkr

sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

and at the line:

blacklist pcspkr

Eclipse and Axis 2

This sorted my problem:


http://osdir.com/ml/axis-dev-ws.apache.org/2009-06/msg00169.html


in fact i saw after than in web.xml that the class AxisAdminServlet class has
change of package



org.apache.axis2.webapp.AxisAdminServlet

but after I've got a new error :