Chicken Donut

1. twiddla.com
2. imaginationcubed.com
3. scriblink.com
4. skrbl.com
5. vyew.com

rename -v ’s/\.JPG$/\.jpg/’ *.JPG

• MV files fast: bulk rename several files at once on linux
• How to Bulk Rename Files in Linux (Terminal or GUI)

My typewriter application was causing a pretty wicked screen flicker when alt-tabbing between applications.  As always little googling turned up the answer.  It was not a Java redraw or layout problem as I originally suspected but a known Compiz full-screen compositing bug.

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/03/fix-for-flickering-fullscreen-application-with-compiz/

I’ve gotten the basic apache/tomcat configuration up and running for sodacrop.com.  As it is on a VPS, the tomcat-velocity dynamically generated UI is less than blazingly fast.  I though about setting up a caching servlet filter, then thought “duha, you are using apache mod_proxy, can’t you get apache to proxy for you?”

More to come…

Turns out setting Tomcat (6 in this case) up as a service on Ubuntu (Debian) is drop dead simple.  It boils down to just a few commands:

sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/bin/catalina.sh
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/bin/catalina.sh /etc/init.d/tomcat
sudo update-rc.d tomcat defaults

For more information:

• An introduction to services, runlevels, and rc.d scripts
• Adding a startup script to be run at bootup
• How can I start Tomcat as a daemon in Linux?

I was looking for a better way to publish web app updates to chickendoughnut and though rsync would be an easy way to go.  I didn’t find an ant rsync task but they do have a sync task that can sync two folders.  A few more googles and I found a way to mount an sftp folder on my local file system.  Peeeerfect.

• Ant sync task
• How to: Mount a SFTP Folder (SSH + FTP) on Ubuntu Linux using SSHFS & Fuse

This picture cracks my shit up. The stash on the Tron dude seals the deal. The linked post is definitely not the first time I have seen the pic, but I can’t remember where it came from.

http://gizmodo.com/5115140/im-linux-video-contest-will-probably-be-a-forking-mess