I am excited, a little nervous, and really looking forward to what the future holds.

On that note, it’s almost lunch time, and I’m gonna miss the friday ritual of going out and getting food. Thank you to TheClassifieds it’s been a great year, I’ve learn a lot, and I hope you guys have also.

Time to shutdown and go to lunch, catch you on the flip side

The problems I have had have been annoying, firstly (2008) I was unable to do anything as the system required you to have Adobe Reader 8.2, this was not available for Linux. And you can imagine the support staff were very helpfull… NOT

And then 2009 & 2010, a similar problem or so it seemed, when ever I tried to load one of the system generated PDF files it would tell me I needed to upgrade my Adobe Reader (which at the moment is 9.3.3, the latest I believe).

After trying to figure out what could be the problem I found it to be a javascript related issue, yes javascript in a PDF…

Solution
Well to solve this problem you need to have the Debian Multimedia repository setup.

And then all you need to do is:

apt-get install acroread mozilla-acroread acroread-plugins

After that restart firefox/iceweasel and there you have it, the missing peice of the puzzel acroread-plugins

So now I have submitted my returns for 2008/2009/2010, here’s waiting for a refund *holds thumbs*

Well I know I can’t change time or the past, but I can shape the future, and I plan to do just that.

I know it’s not going to be easy, but I am needing to split my day in to various chucks so I can at least get some meaning out of them and not just plod along like I have been doing.

So lets see how this works out… And hopefully I can stick to it for more than one or two days :p

I am slowly becoming a stronger person, not only emotionally but physically and mentally as well. I have some motivation, and it’s amazing what you can achieve when you have people around you that believe in you so thank you to all those people

I have a few big plans for the future, unfortunately the timing isn’t right yet for some of them, and some other plans are reliant on the first few, but with time and patience, these things shall come to pass

And hopefully I will now have more time to mess around with more technology

Well best get off to bed, it’s getting late

So, I’ve decided that for the next couple of weeks I’m going to disconnect myself from that world, unfortunatly I can’t disconnect completely from the internet due to my work. But I can close down chat clients, and the like.

Here’s to the next couple of weeks, hopefully something good comes from it, catch y’all on the other side. And I will try and blog more, havn’t really had a chance to learn anything new recently, hence this decision

Love you all, C

PS. If you need to get hold of me, pop me a mail or sms, or leave a comment below (they are moderated so if you don’t want it to show up just say so

UPDATE – 2 Mar So it took a week and I’m back, but I’ve removed a few people from follow lists, unfortunately these things need to be done

First you need to create a remote Git repository, either on your own server or Codaset, GitHub

You will need to create a local repository:

mkdir directory_to_sync
cd directory_to_sync
git init
touch .gitignore
git add .gitignore
git commit

To create a remote Git repository do the following on your server:

mkdir repository.git
cd repository.git
git init --bare

Once you have created the remote repository you will need to link it to your local copy:

git remote add origin ssh://server_address/path_to_repository
git push origin master
git pull origin master

To make life easier I always edit the Git config file and add the following:

vi .git/config
[push]
        default = current
[branch "master"]
        remote = origin
        merge = master

The only problem with this approach is that you need to store the files in a seperate directory, but we ca get around this “limitation” by using symlinks for example to store the .bash* files in Git:

ln -s directory_to_sync/.bashrc ./

Well I hope this helps someone out there

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Then this morning I stumbled apon this gem and lo and behold it worked (kinda) I just had to set the permisisons on the /opt/Adobe Air/ directory.

AWESOME!!!

Anyways, this is mainly so if I ever reinstall (which I tend to do anyways every couple of weeks lolz… selftorture++)

Taken from: http://nomo17k.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/canon-pixma-ip1800-for-debian-lenny/

Sunday, March 22, 2009

# apt-get install cupsys cupsys-client libcupsys2
# apt-get install cupsys-driver-gimpprint cupsys-bsd
# apt-get install foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-gimp-print foomatic-filters
# apt-get install hp-ppd linuxprinting.org-ppds printfilters-ppd
# apt-get install foomatic-filters-ppds
# apt-get install gs-gpl libpng3 ijsgutenprint

cnijfilter-common_2.70-3_i386.deb
cnijfilter-ip1800series_2.70-3_i386.deb

# dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_2.70-3_i386.deb cnijfilter-ip1800series_2.70-3_i386.deb

I was getting the following errors:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
foo bar baz
Install these packages without verification [y/N]?

I struggled for a while to get this to work, and then gave up, but I finally got this sorted out

Firstly as the user running the mirror script:
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ~/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys

I needed to add the following keys:
16BA136C – Backports.org Archive Key
55BE302B – Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny)
F42584E6 – Lenny Stable Release Key
55BE302B – Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (5.0/lenny)
0C5A2783 – Medibuntu Packaging Team
1F41B907 – Christian Marillat
437D05B5 – Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key
6DFBCBAE – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (xVM VirtualBox archive signing key)
BBE55AB3 – Debian-Volatile Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch)

The Medibuntu key was a little strange to get as noted on this post: How To: Make Your Own Ubuntu Repository DVDs

Also removed the “–ignore-release-gpg” option from the scripts, this will at least warn me the next time something like this happens…

And then run the mirror scripts again and voila

I found this site, which had quite alot of info.

One tip I really liked was:

Cache-Friendly File Names

This is probably my favorite, and I use it on every site I work on. It allows me to update my javascript and css files in my visitors cache’s simply by naming them differently in the html, on the server they stay the same name. This rewrites all files for /zap/j/anything-anynumber.js to /zap/j/anything.js and /zap/c/anything-anynumber.css to /zap/c/anything.css

RewriteRule ^zap/(j|c)/([a-z]+)-([0-9]+)\.(js|css)$ /zap/$1/$2.$4 [L]