lunatechian (lunatech-ian)

gitosis hint: does not appear to be a git repository

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:56:54 +0000

You have successfully installed gitosis, and you have been able to add users into gitosis. Now, on a remote computer, you try to checkout.

tearlayneed-lm:tmp rshekhar$ git clone ssh://stormcrow@home:221/gitosis-admin
Cloning into gitosis-admin...
fatal: '/gitosis-admin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I am running the ssh server on port 221 and my username is stormcrow. If your reaction is WTF!, then I can sympathise with you. The correct clone command is

git clone ssh://stormcrow@home:221/~/gitosis-admin
Cloning into gitosis-admin...
remote: Counting objects: 24, done.

If you failed to notice, there is a ~ required.

rants by Kapil Sibal, with lolcats

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:13:32 +0000

Kapil Sibal, India's Telecoms minister has prompted an uproar after it was revealed he met with executives from Google and Facebook to pressure them into screening 'objectionable' content.

A side effect of Kapil Sibal trying to censor the internet is that he has been given a goldmine of comic quotes. And any quote looks adorable with a kitten. I converted his quotes to lolspeak and put them with pictures of cute kittens. The kittens should countereffect the increased blood pressure caused by his idocacy.

Without further ado, here are the cats with Kapil's quotes

U go and delete information on the Internet that might offend the sensibilities of people in India

We have to take care of the sensibilities of our people. Cultural ethos is very important to us.

There is some content on the Internet.. that any normal human being would be offended by

I have seen subject matter which was so offensive that it hurt religious sentiments of large sections of community

I decline to define what, exactly, is offensive content I am not offensive

Image credits

audit for incorrect engine

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:21:32 +0000

If you use innodb engine exclusively, and want to audit your databases for any tables that might have an incorrect engine, use the command below -

mysql -u root -p  information_schema -e \
"select TABLE_SCHEMA,TABLE_NAME, ENGINE from TABLES where\
 ENGINE != 'Innodb' \
 and TABLE_SCHEMA not in ('mysql','information_schema');"

The tragedy of the San Francisco city

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:45:54 +0000

The tragedy of the San Francisco city is that it is always crowded. And if the weather is even remotely sunny, it gets even more crowded.

My tshirt for today

nospam@example.com (moblog) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:23:06 +0000

This tshirt is from a city called Weed, in the state of (where else) California. The town of Weed gets its name from the founder of the local lumber mill, Abner Weed. No sublimal messages have been hidden in the tshirt.

Cheers

My humble beginnings towards my goals

nospam@example.com (moblog) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:23:04 +0000

The gardening bug has bitten us and we have planted a few plants in our patio. The plants have survived for a few days and I have high hopes now. These are my humble beginnings as I work towards my long term goal of becoming a farmer.

a bag of tips

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:57:55 +0000

When you require a fake US address, use the one below. It should clear validity filters
123 Fake Street
Compton, CA - 90222

In linux, to find files modified today, use find . -mtime -1 \! -type d -exec ls -l {} \;

Overheard

nospam@example.com (moblog) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:22:00 +0000

Overheard at Victoria's Secret sale event, near a huge stack of panties, during their underwear sale event - "wow these are huge". The speaker was a woman holding up a pair.

Overhead in a TV serial - "They destroyed my roses. Eat lead, you bastards"

mysql startup debugging tip

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:19:03 +0000

If you are not able to start the mysql daemon repeatedly using your linux distribution init scripts and you are ready to pull out your hair in frustration, here is a tip that might help you in finding the problem.

Try running the mysqld_safe from the command line (without using the init scripts). Try running /usr/bin/mysqld_safe -v, which should spit out some debugging information.

If that fails, try calling the mysqld daemon directly from the command line, with the "-v" option . mysqld is usually present under /usr/sbin/mysqld. mysqld can be called with --print-defaults to get the command line options it would be run with.

/usr/sbin/mysqld would have been started with the following arguments: --user=mysql --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ..... --max_binlog_size=100M

Try adding the -v option to these options to get more verbose details. When run from command line, mysqld will not detach from console and will print debugging info that might be useful in finding the cause of the error.

I suggest using 3 terminals to figure out what is going on

one terminal with tail -f /var/log/mysql/mysqld.err
one terminal with tail -f /var/log/messages
one terminal where I ran the mysqld_safe / mysqld command

The init scripts are usually good for day to day work. However, sometimes the init scripts can impede a innodb crash recovery process on a large database. Some init scripts have timeout built into them and they can kill mysql while the innodb is still trying to recover its tables.

bad speling killed the dog

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:49 +0000

Woman inadvertently confesses to bestiality. More funnies available here.

happy star wars day!

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:58:27 +0000

MayThe4thBeWithYou

Celebrate the day by blowing up planets and kidnapping Princesses

ads by Salvador Dali

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:30:33 +0000

TV ads for chocolate, Alka-Seltzer and wine by Salvador Dali.

from warren ellis

Hair hacks toolkit

nospam@example.com (moblog) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:30:57 +0000

Got my copy

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:21:09 +0000

Look what I got in my mail today . Bought it second hand at amazon. I am so pleased to see this is a hardcover edition. 6 bucks really well spent.

Charlie Sheen

nospam@example.com (Raj Shekhar) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 05:57:41 +0000

Charlie Sheen is in the limelight now, and even Scott Adams has weighed in his opinions. On my part, I would like to see a "Charlie Sheen" magazine. This mag would have sections completely opposite to the "Oprah" magazine. For example, instead of the "Book club", we will have "Good Porn" section. Instead of a "Health" section, we will have a "Drugs" section.