I figured since I’m too awake to sleep, it’s about time I clean up my nasty-ass avatar. Vectorize it, even.
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Inkscape came to my rescue. And it’s free. And now I’ve got a good looking avatar.
I just read a forum post by Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor. He covers how to make money without selling your soul to a label.
Trent covers music but it’s transferrable to, say, books and even games…
It’s nothing new. It works. Why isn’t everyone giving their stuff away?
I’ve recently been contributing to the TorrentBoy Project and trying to keep some level of activity going for it at all times. The project still needs active contributors, especially if you’re any good with stringing coherent words together or connecting lines together to form pretty pictures. See 1889.ca for more information. Writers? Artists? Anyone!
How is this relevant? I told MCM, the brain behind the project, that I’d get off my butt and finally post the .svg I had created. Being that TorrentBoy is a collaborative project, it helps others if they have a “launching” point to contribute from. From my perspective, I’m hoping that someone can take my image of Crash with Waser Bwaster (
) and make him awesome.
Back to the point, GoDaddy doesn’t display .svg files by default. When linking to an SVG, the page will just spit out the source code to the image. Not very helpful. A temporary solution would be to change the .svg extension to .xml, which will then correctly display the image. But that’s not how we do it!
The solution is this. Stick the following lines into your websites root .htaccess file (the ~/html directory).
AddType image/svg+xml svg AddType image/svg+xml svgz AddEncoding x-gzip .svgz
Give it a try. Much thanks to this article for the solution.
I’m going to make this as simple as possible. I’ll even stay away from the “command line” until it makes sense to use it.
First, add the repository to your software sources file. The repository can be found at Launchpad, I found it by searching for PPA XBMC jaunty from the site’s search function. The two XBMC repositories for Jaunty are
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/jaunty-ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/jaunty-ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
But we’re mostly interested in that first one (repository). Highlight and copy the first line so we can add it to our repositories. Open up the Sources manager
System > Administration > Software Sources
Then click the Third-Party Software tab. Click Add at the bottom left of the window and paste in the repository that you copied previously.
Next we need to Authenticate the repository so that it shows up in the system’s list of software that we can install. To do this, click the Authentication tab in that software sources window.
In order to authenticate, we need to import the XBMC key file for Jaunty. The public key, like the link to the repository itself, can be found on Launchpad. You might notice on the XBMC-Jaunty launchpad page the following line:
This repository is signed with 1024R/9317790E OpenPGP key.
The public key is found by first clicking that link. You’ll be presented with another link on a line like the following:
sig sig3 9317790E 2009-04-04 ...
Click the first link to be taken to the repository’s public key. You need to copy everything below the heading. Everything includes
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
and the block of characters in the middle, all the way to the end of
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
After that has been copied, create a file and paste the block into it. The name of the file doesn’t matter as you only need the file for another minute.
After the key has been pasted into the file, go back to Authentication tab of the Software Sources window. At the bottom left of the window is the Import Key File… button. Click it. Navigate to and select the key file you just created. Click OK.
You should now see the XBMC key information in the Trusted software providers window. That’s it for setting up the repository. Just click Close and you’ll be prompted to update the system’s available software listing.
To install, just go through the steps you would regularly to install software. Personally, I prefer to run the command from a shell.
sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude install xbmc
If you haven’t already done so, you can now delete the XBMC launchpad key.
Note: If you are using an ATI video card, you may need to install the ATI video card drivers from the ATI site. This is evident when you go to run XBMC and a window flashes and disappears.
It appears now that, in the updates leading up to but not necessarily including today, ATI video cards will now work properly with XBMC and no longer cause it to crash.
This is another useful tidbit to use with the article, Backing up your Database (with GoDaddy and Cron).
What it does: Allow you to send mail to a specified email address by using the program sendmail.
You do this from the shell in your GoDaddy account. I shouldn’t have to tell you that this tutorial is meant for the shared Linux hosting account.
/usr/sbin/sendmail.real -f myaccount@theurl.com intendedrecipient@theotherurl.com
Type that all on one line. Of course, change the addresses to suit your needs, then press <enter>. You’ll be greeted with… nothing happening. sendmail is now waiting for further instructions. So type the following.
Subject: whatever your subject is And now you type your message below that
And you’ll still be left with nothing happening. Now sendmail is waiting for you to tell it that the message is over. So simply type a period on a line by itself.
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And press <enter>. Your message should now send.
This is handy for a cron job where you want either a receipt that the cron job completed, or perhaps you want a file (backup?) sent to you on a regular basis.
Example:
/usr/sbin/sendmail.real \ -f test@example.com \ recipient@example.com Subject: Testing for HowTo This is just a test message. And this is a new line. .
The following email is what I received.
from test@example.com to date Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 2:22 PM subject Testing for HowTo mailed-by bounce.secureserver.net This is just a test message. And this is a new line.
