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Jolicloud 1.0
Aug 7th
The other day I got an email from the Jolicloud team stating that my account was ready to be upgraded to version 1.0 of their software. Relatively excited I hopped on my HP netbook and upgraded. It was a quick and easy process however what I was left with was certainly not something I’d have upgraded to if I had known what it was. Upon initial login you’re presented with a nice looking HTML5 driven menu or rather dashboard. Your applications are listed here. At the moment it only seems that “Jolicloud-apps” are listed here and getting to any native system applications requires a bit of extra work. I have yet to actually figure out how to do this without launching them from command line.
While I actually don’t really use many native applications, there is one that is very important to me so not being able to easily access it is definitely an issue. That application is Terminal. Fortunately you can access Nautilus and I ended up searching for the application. There is however a bit easier method to accessing it which is to simply hit Alt+F1. I did do a bit of searching and it looks like native applications aren’t quite integrated into their Dashboard yet, but they’re working on it. However I did notice Google Chrome made it onto my Dashboard somehow, but I couldn’t figure out how to add my own.
To be fair, Jolicloud is certainly a one of the best netbook operating systems. It installs very easily and it’s very simple to use. Heck, I’d even toss this on my parents netbook or laptop (if they didn’t already have a new MacBook). It allows easy access to popular websites and applications. You can easily install applications from Jolicloud’s large list. The social aspect is still there (how I have zero friends so it’s pretty useless to me). Jolicloud 1.0 now supports synching of applications across the computers you’ve attached to your profile, so I thought that was pretty cool.
Overall, the update is not for me. They seem to have simplified things a bit too much and took away some of the Linux. I do however think once they allow native Linux applications to be added into the Dashboard that bit of annoyance will disappear. I really like Jolicloud, but they could have made sure native applications work previous to releasing this update.
Removing WordPress’ Automatic Character Formatting
Aug 4th
While this doesn’t pertain to this WordPress blog, it does apply to another one I use to store notes for my job. As a Linux Server Administrator I store tons of commands and snippets I use often in a WordPress blog. However when pasting from the blog into my PuTTY command window I notice the characters don’t come across correctly. This is because WordPress is formatting them on the fly a bit differently then I’d like it too. Fortunately there’s a quick fix for this. Basically you just disable the function that does it in your theme. What you need to do is open your themes functions.php file and place in the following two lines:
remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');
remove_filter('comment_text', 'wptexturize');
The first line kills the function from running on the content of your blog posts and the second one on the comments for the blog post.
On Hacking the Nintendo Wii…
Jun 14th
This past weekend I was visiting a friend’s house and he had a modified Nintendo Wii. Being curious I started asking him questions and at the end of this I basically rushed home to start modifying my own Nintendo Wii. Now, I had read a bit into all this before but never ended up modifying my Wii because it seemed to be quite a pain. However, after doing a bit more research I found out this process was a lot easier then I thought it would be. I basically grabbed a 512MB SanDisk SD card, placed some files from BootMii on there and within 5 minutes had the Homebrew Channel installed on my Wii. Now this is sort of where I got all confused, fortunately my friend came over and helped me out.
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cPanel: MySQL Databases Show As 0MB
Apr 15th
This issue has been plaguing me ever since we moved to a VPS (at least I think so). The problem is when you go to view your MySQL databases in cPanel they appear as 0.00MB which is not correct (at least if you’ve got data & records in them)! Initially I thought either running /script/upcp –force or /scripts/fixquotas would resolve this, but it doesn’t. I sort of gave up after that, not sure why since I was able to resolve it within 5 minutes tonight. I ran a quick Google search and came across a cPanel forums post which linked to this blog article.
Essentially you just need to update a configuration option in the cPanel configuration file, then run a script, and you should be set!
Just open this file with your favorite text editor:
[~]# nano /var/cpanel/cpanel.config
Locate this line:
disk_usage_include_sqldbs=0
and change it to:
disk_usage_include_sqldbs=1
Then run this command:
[~]# /scripts/update_db_cache
Check your cPanel and it should be resolved!
