Had an issue with the c with cedilla character and therefore needed to enter it in VI. Was using SSH to log on to a Linux-server with no other editors available so it was no option to use the character map to get the c-cedilla. After having spent some time trying various Google-searches I found a description on how to enter special characters on the Vim wikia. Entering diagraphs using ctrl-k was the solution to my challenge.
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….pshhhhhhh….Puncture
On my way to work today, passing Havnelageret my bike suddenly became very soft, almost like riding on jelly. Stopped and checked my tires, rear puncture!! Damn, why does this happen on days when I have left home early to get to work in reasonably time? Took my time and spent 15 minutes, had no hurry out in the sun…
Not to bad, my first one this year, and it is my 63’rd time using my bike to work.
B2Evolution on my laptop and RTFM
Spent a couple of hours setting up my blog engine B2Evolution to run on my Ubuntu 10.4 installation. The most tricky part of doing so is often to get your webserver up and running together with PHP and MySQL. That challenge is easily solved by using XAMPP, or LAMPP in my case since I’m running Linux. By installing XAMPP you get Apache, PHP and MySql (with PHPMyAdmin) together with a bunch more stuff just like that.
All I had to do was to copy my local blog folder to the /opt/lampp/-folder, then run /blog/install and voila, B2 up and running.
But then I had to provide the blog with content downloaded as a SQL-file from my “real” blog. Had to struggle a bit with that one. Using the PHPMyAdmin console to do the import failed, first by a timeout, then because the SQL-file was to big. Soon found out that the best option is to use command line to import data to MySQL. First I tried the command MySQLImport, but I never got it to work. A bit embarrassing to realize that this was a case of RTFM (Read The Fucking Manual). First of all, note that the filename of the SQL-file must match the table you want to import data to, then when realizing that I understood that MySQLImport was not what I wanted. I want to import data to several tables, so I had to use the MySQL-command like this.
Now I have B2Evolution running on my local computer with content from hellem.org, based on my latest backup, because I backup regularly and I’m also able to do a restore 😉
IBM – Open Source friend of foe?
IBM has for a long time been a contributor to the Open Source community involving themselves in various projects, just take a look at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/ Eclipse, WAS CE and many more. All this in areas where there are many competitors, Microsoft being the main competitor I would guess. Point is, all this in areas where IBM are not alone.
But, IBM has monopoly of one area, and that is the mainframe. They have full control of the whole value chain, both the hardware and the OS and then many tools as well. So here comes Hercules mainframe emulator trying to let people run mainframe applications on other hardware…and the response from IBM…lawsuit of course. I would assume mainframe being the most valuable asset IBM has control over. But I won’t try to dive into all the nifty details here, but instead just provide you with my sources, see
- Blog Foss Patents “IBM breaks the taboo and betrays its promise to the FOSS community“
- Blog Armed and Dangerous “IBM: Back to the Bad Old Days?“
- Ars Technica, Open Ended “IBM breaks OSS patent promise, targets mainframe emulator“
The last one in the list above diving a bit into the details on why IBM is making the lawsuit (apart from protecting their money). I would assume that most people understand why they do it, but that they have chosen the wrong weapon to fight against competition.
From Lindesnes to Nordkapp with bicycle VI
On Monday I did use my bike for the 60’th time this year to work, not bad I must say, because this includes two weeks of paternity leave and a course for one week out at Kolbotn, and not to mention a lot of days of in May. Anyhow, now I’m all the way to Oksfjordhamn. Could not find much about that place, but a search using Google gives a few hits at least.
On my way to work I’m passing by Akershus Fortress where you can find these chairs. Art is sometimes hard to understand
Also, on Monday morning I started counting cyclists I met from Aker Brygge to Bygdøylokket, 2.2 km, …. 110 cyclists..!!
Reinstalled Ubuntu on my T60
Yesterday I spent just about an hour reinstalling Ubuntu on my laptop, so now I’m running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. Since I had tested so much on my 9.10 installation that I had lost control of what was running or not I reinstalled instead of upgrading. Used rsync to sync my pictures, videos and such to my external disk, then just booted with the cd and started the whole process of reinstalling. 7 dialog windows, then it installed itself in just about 30 minutes or so, and then it downloaded the updates from Internet. Really fast, compared to my previous windows installation that demanded about a day to be up and running.
Lunch at Fornebu – lovely day at work!
Today we ate outside, enjoying the view of Oslofjorden
My colleague Peter enjoying his lunch and the view
Skat – yet another luxury yacht
Had to stop and take a picture of this yacht when going to work this morning. The yacht is the 64th-largest in the world with a length of 71 meters, read more about it at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skat_%28yacht%29
Go open source, down with Micro$oft, when all the bosses can afford such yachts, no wonder Window$ costs a lot
Blog upgraded
Now upgraded from 3.3.2 to 3.3.3, it has been out for nearly half a year, but I have just not noticed it. Just a few bug fixes, easy and simple upgrade – b2evolution rocks!!
Terrengsykkelrittet 2010
Yesterday I attended my first competition this year, which also was my first time trying Terrengsykkelrittet. Almost 60 kilometers hard core offroad biking in Østmarka. Manengen won using 2.55, I got more value for money and spent a bit more then one and a half hour more, which was expected. I’m pleased with the result, and also that I had no punctures or any other mechanical problems with the bike. Struggled hard with the brakes on Friday evening, but problem solved and it worked flawlessly for 4 and a half hour. Bit more problems with my own body, felt cramps several times, but luckily not anything bad, but very tired when finished.
The results for my class, Men 30-39, tow rounds can be viewed at Emit webpage
My legs and face when finished together with Espen showing his legs as well
From my training diary, kinda funny to see the red line at bottom right which is my pulse. Hard start and falling all the way
