Nuudelisoppa – Page 12 – Good Noodles.

Bitlbee, Twitter, 403, base_url, “could not find setting”

The 403 issue is fixed in a new release of Bitlbee, but those of us relying on third-party servers running older versions need to use a workaround. Comment #3 by wilmer on the tracker ticket says the workaround is to issue:

ac tw2 set base_url http://api.twitter.com/1

However, applying this to settings on my server running Debian Lenny took some effort, so I’m making a note of the working format here:

account set 2/base_url 'http://api.twitter.com/1'

(where ‘2’ is the number of my bitlbee account connected to twitter)

2011/06/30

(Bash) command line equivalent of strip_tags()

php -r 'echo strip_tags(file_get_contents($argv[1]));' file_to_strip

And as an alias:

alias strip_tags="php -r 'echo strip_tags(file_get_contents(\$argv[1]));'"

2011/06/13

Linking to specific language versions of Google’s Privacy Policy
This took a bit of detective work, so I thought I’d post it here for other googlers to readily see:
- http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html is the English Privacy Policy.
- http://www.google.com/intl/fi/privacy/privacy-policy.html, for example, is the Finnish Tietosuojakäytäntö.
Replace the bolded part (“fi” in the example above) with the two-letter country code of your choice.
2011/05/31
Palautetta Helsingin yliopiston tietotekniikkaosastolle

Olinpa eilen repiä hermoni, kun minun piti vaihtaa yliopistoverkkoon saamani käyttäjätunnuksen oletussalasana.

1. Salasanan pituus on rajattu korkeintaan 14 merkkiin. Miksi ihmeessä tällainen rajaus? Järjestelmät, jotka eivät tue tuon turvallisempia salasanoja, olisi pelkästään tietoturvankin takia syytä korjata tai päivittää nykyaikaisempiin.

2. Tuo pituusrajoitus paljastuu käyttäjälle vasta, kun salasananvaihtolomakkeeseen on tarjonnut 14 merkkiä pidempää salasanaa (“Enimmäispituus on 14merkkiä”). Miksi ihmeessä vasta silloin? Miksei näitä keskeisimpiä salasanalle asetettuja rajoituksia ole listattu lomakesivulla, jottei käyttäjän tarvitsisi kokeilla päästäkseen niistä perille? Pieni “Apua”-linkki siinä lomakkeen alalaidassa ei aja alkuunkaan samaa asiaa.

3. Salasananvaihtolomake antaa mukisematta vaihtaa salasanan sellaiseksi, jossa on tyhjeitä ja muita erikoismerkkejä, vaikka tällainen salasana ei toisaalla järjestelmässä toimikaan. Voi hyvä helvetti…

2011/05/19
Different 2.5 ” SATA hard disk connectors

Today I participated in a reshuffling of laptop hard disks. I’d never seen 2.5 ” SATA drives before, and got confused for a moment by the different connector on the Toshiba HDD2D60, previously connected to a Compaq laptop. The other disk, a WD one, had what I felt looked more like true SATA connectors.

I figured maybe there was a custom adapter on the Compaq’s motherboard I was supposed to rip out with the disk, but couldn’t find any. Turns out there was an adapter, but it was attached to the disk (duh). So I just ripped that out, and the standard SATA connectors on the disk were revealed.

This enabled me to connect it to the other laptop, a Fujitsu U9200.

2011/05/14
404 with WordPress permalinks

404’s on post permalinks could be due to a number of different issues, but for me it was caused by a plugin gone bad during a WordPress update: Top Level Categories was broken by WordPress 3.1, and replacing it with FV Top Level Categories was the fix.

2011/05/01
How to get the default category ID in WordPress

Damn it, Google, it isn’t that hard!

<?php get_option('default_category'); ?>

2011/04/29
All sites’ latest for WordPress

All sites’ latest is a plugin for WordPress multisite installations to fetch and display latest posts from all sites of current blog’s owner, typically on the root site.

It is a nasty hack, but works for me (on WP 3.1.1) and doesn’t do any database writes, so testing it is quite safe. There’s no GUI for options, you need to edit the code if you want to exclude some sites for example. You’ll need to modify the code anyway, as you’ll have to set up a special page for displaying the fetched posts and point the plugin towards it.

Download Footnotes for WordPress (a .phps file, rename it to .php before uploading to plugins/)

2011/04/10

Today’s text

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riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D
pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19
  R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17
  n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1
  K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D
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2011/01/28

mem++;
(Suomeksi)

Just installed two memory modules which I’d ordered a couple of weeks ago from Verkkokauppa. It was relatively painless apart from a small cut I inflicted on my hand while cutting a cable tie with my blunt Leatherman blade. It was actually pretty unavoidable because of the cramped space. I couldn’t both hold the cable tie and dodge the knife.
```
jani@saegusa:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers  cached
Mem:          7750       1429       6320          0        122     381
-/+ buffers/cache:        926       6824
Swap:        19069          0      19069
```
I wasn’t really running out of memory yet in day-to-day use, but I’d already decided to invest in upgrades regularly when purchasing my current setup, to make it last as long as possible. With my previous computers I’ve postponed upgrades until the hardware could no longer meet software requirements, at which point the hardware was so obsolete that upgrade parts were hard to find.

The RAM I now installed was Kingston’s HyperX blu. They’re pretty neat-looking.

With the two Buffalo modules on the motherboard already I initially had some difficulties: Memtest86 found errors until I happened to juggle the modules into slots where they worked perfectly.
2011/01/13