Whoops! x 500+

Have you ever gotten to the end of a long list of "To Dos" and realized that an incorrect decision made or a year ago within that "To Dos" has just invalidated a great deal of the work already accomplished on the "To Do" list? Some times "Whoops!" is all that can be said. The Photography section of project mouse will be missing some photos for a few days because, whoops, I neglected to take into account the thumbnail in the RSS feed, quite possibly the most important part of the communication feed a web site makes possible.

In order to Correct this particular Whoops, I need to re-publish all of the 500+ photographs entered into the CMS in the current, make that correct format. Yes, this sucks. Yes, this is a hassle, but it must be done because after all, how many of you actually when to the site directly and were not redirected through an RSS feed reader such as Google’s Reader or the built-in feed support through Safari?

Ah well …

This at least give me an opportunity to use the missing thumbnail default image. The images will be back before long and everyone and ogle the high school pictures that have drawn much attention.

[ the whoops default image in action, yeah ]

Open Directory and .htpasswd

Fascinating! I worked on a project* once that involved a complete rewrite of the command-line utility passwd in order to keep a number of system services including a .htpasswd file in sync with users account passwords. Mac OS X Hints noted this is made simple with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and Open Directory.

Virtualized Xserver

Media Temple labs has a private beta for what it’s calling Xserve-Virtual . This system has been added quickly added to my MT wish list along with the Django GridContainer which, perhaps I wont need if I move over to a full-on-mirror of my development environment using a virtual OS X Server.

A virtual Mac OS X Leopard Server running on a fully loaded cluster of Xserves virtualized using Parallels Server . I want one, … or three, … yeah that should be enough …. maybe four, for symmetry.

Fedora 9 root password mismatch resolution

Having started my journey down the command-line with Fedora 3, I was excited to try out Fedora 9. The install completed with ease (the first time around) but once I logged onto the system and attempted to configure some of the system settings, my root password didn’t work.

Why? CAPS LOCK bit was set by default during the install process making a different root password.