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Quickly Sync JPG mtime with EXIF CreateDate 22 Jun 2012 | 10:45 am
I borrowed a few things, made a few changes, and now all my photos have the correct timestamp on the filesystem. Hooray! The script expects to be in the root directory of the album hierarchy, but that...
Opscode Chef Xtra: Obtaining network interface data 5 Jun 2012 | 09:50 am
It is somewhat of a challenge to obtain interface information out of the data Ohai makes available for network interfaces. For information only about inet addresses, the following works: node_addresse...
Getting a little crazy with FileEdit 11 May 2012 | 11:36 am
In case there is any doubt, you can go nuts with Chef::Util::FileEdit. If one is using search_file_replace, internally it is simply: new_contents << ((method == 1) ? replace : line.gsub!(exp, replace)...
Chef Xtra: A Deletable Template via a Definition 25 Mar 2012 | 09:57 am
While there is no delete action recognized by the Chef template resource, it is possible to fake it using a definition. For example, a definition for managing a configuration file for the multifaceted...
Chef Xtra: Achieving Idempotence in execute Resource 15 Mar 2012 | 08:30 am
The certainty of outcome offered by other Chef resources is notably lacking from the execute Resource, for Chef has no way of knowing the consequences of the provided shell script fragment. Fortunatel...
Made the switch to Fedora 15 from Kubuntu 10.10 6 Oct 2011 | 09:10 am
Finally happened. I made the switch to Fedora. I’d been a Kubuntu user since 2006, but since the switch to Pulse Audio I have had serious problems with sound under Kubuntu in 10.10, 11.04, and 11.10 b...
Chase Ink Business Card Rewards goes to Crap 13 Sep 2011 | 04:28 am
For years, holders of Chase’s Business Card earned 3% cash back on meals, gas, and office supplies. No more, according to junk mail just received offering the new and improved Ink card! New card holde...
Google Docs Upload Broken in Opera 11.51 11 Sep 2011 | 06:21 am
It’s been broken for at least a month, apparently. As long as it lasts, there is apparently a workaround: https://docs.google.com/?action=updoc
Google Calendar Agenda Native PDF Generation 6 Sep 2011 | 01:27 pm
I am pleased to see Google Calendar now natively generates a PDF when printing out an agenda. In the past, the print version of an agenda was a clean HTML page. Now it has more colors and clean page b...
Why is handling amortization so difficult to get right? 31 Aug 2011 | 09:41 am
So fail boat on recording my student loan in both Gnucash and Moneydance. Years ago, I had success using Gnucash for this, but was forced to file a bug this time. Meanwhile, Moneydance has had a diffe...
