WILT – 1
Starting today I'm going to start a new thing here on Sindacious.com, what I learned today, inspired by this website, which is where my first will also come from.
On a (mainly) daily basis, I'll update with something I learned today, usually about coding or server related things. (EDIT: I lied, probably on a bi-weekly {or monthly, like my posts} basis, I haven't learned anything worth sharing in the last few days.)
So, without further babble, what I learned today, how to install mercurial correctly on CentOS.
A few days back I moved all my websites from my VPS back to Extroverthost's web hosting server, during this time, I installed hg, but kept getting PYTHONPATH errors when using the hg command, which was a major annoyance. After hours of looking around, I finally came across the website I mentioned in the beginning, with the information I needed to fix my PYTHONPATH issue.
How to install on CentOS
wget http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.4.3.tar.gz
tar zxf mercurial-1.4.3.tar.gz
cd mercurial-1.4.3/
make (this will show you your make options, for local install, full install, etc)
make <option>
hg debuginstall
If you get a PYTHONPATH error when using hg debuginstall, put the following in your .bashrc:
PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages:${PYTHONPATH}
export PYTHONPATH
Learned from: http://w-i-l-t.tumblr.com/post/165104796/mercurial-install-centos-5-3
Update?
It's about time I made an update, so I've put on a new skin, added a few add-ons (that aren't really seen so much as used when I want too), and eventually I'll make my edits like on the old skin, status, WhatPulse statistics, and whatever else comes to mind. What inspired the update was mainly somehow a link got put in the top right of the other skin (with an insane margin) linking to a birth protection blog, and I could find no way to get rid of it.. so I figured a change of looks had come. After searching through WordPress' website for a decent skin (which I was amazed at how unimpressed I was by some of the top skins) I came across the current skin you see now. Sexy, I know. I've decided I may actually start using this blog a little more often (though that is a weak promise) for development blabber and other hobbies I may take up soon. If anyone has ideas, I'm sure my faithful following will voice them like popular subscribers, james@sindacio.us, james@sindacious.com, admin@sinirc.net, james@zaphyous.com, and so on. They've contributed a lot to this site, thank you. Oh, and lets plug ExtrovertHost, they're the reason this and all of my stuff is on the internet.
Recently I've decided to take up python, I haven't learned too much, yet, though I want to start something (like a website) in python soon, just need to figure out mod_fcgi, apache and I don't know each other very well. Recently I've decided to learn how to use mercurial version control system (did I state that correctly?) for my repositories. First I used git, then svn, but hstuart mad mercurial seem so much better, so I decided to learn it (I worship the stuff he bakes). Currently learning more about it. Soon to release a new pastebin which is a copy of sprunge.us, but in php, rather then python (we plan on make it python in the distant future), it'll be released when I can buy the domain, currently it's in version one, we plan to add more to it that it doesn't have currently (currently supports paste, line numbers, and API for people without the curl command), more info on that in the future. pylon from additionalpylons and I started work on that pastebin, and currently (and very slowly..) working on a logging bot in python with a web interface (which uses webpy). The idea is to make it one process- you start the bot, it starts the website and logger. This has already been achieved, now we need to work on the actual logging and user authentication. We plan on making this open source, while making a website that anyone can request the bot on any network. I'll put more information about that whenever we get around to releasing, which should be in the not so distant future now that I've stopped using github and started using my own repositories, we can work a little faster. Other upcoming projects include my want to make a dnsbl, this would be open source , easy to setup, and of course, used at anyones digressions. My main want to code one is to understand how dnsbl's work, and of course, planning to code it in python, so it'll be a learning experience in many ways, this will probably also be used so I can setup a personal dnsbl for my IRC network, and for use on my websites, more on that later as well.
I recently watched G.I. Joe and Year One (today, actually). I really actually enjoyed G.I. Joe, wasn't bad at all, it's very obvious a sequel will come. I personally never saw many of the old cartoons, so I can't say I know much about the storyline, so I'm just going by what the movie alone, and it was good. Year One, not so much. The story was alright, but I didn't get much enjoyment from watching it, though it had it's funny parts, certainly not a must watch. This was also the uncensored version, and comparing watchmen uncensored and this, I don't know what is uncensored about it, really. I think the next movie I plan to watch is Gamer, it really caught my eye. For some reason I thought it was called The Game.
So during the time after I saved this this morning, I watched Gamer and District 9. Gamer was alright, it had a good plot, but it wasn't much of a watch. I enjoyed District 9 quite a bit, the ending was pretty interesting, after the plot twist with the ship I wasn't sure where things would end, but it had a semi good ending, so I was happy. I thought it was interesting you only see ONE child alien in the movie though. It is a total must watch, some were not impressed, I thought it was great. Now I think I'm out of movies I'm interested in watching.
Today we put down California.US.SinIRC.Net. R.I.P. IT WAS A GOOD SERVER. Replaced it with LA.US.SinIRC.Net, which is in the same data center. I would have named it California, though it was convenient at the time to have both linked to migrate the users over to the new server then go ahead and kill them all off by suddenly killing off California, so LA was the new name. Growing is slow, but I'm still happy.
This is where I end the post of the month. I want to plug a new blog that can be accessed from my awesome blog roll Cremastermind, a blog about stuff nobody cares about featuring reviews about stuff nobody cares about, and other things nobody cares about. I've been told that if I decide I want to submit any material it will be published, so if I do, I'll be sure to mirror it this way as well, so my whole five readers can see it.
It sucked.
People read this, apparently. My last post wasn't like my usual ranting and going on, and "it sucked". So I'm never going to try what I did in my last post again. I'll go on with my usual banter.
We've finally moved into the new house, most the stuff is moved in, and the internet is back on, obviously. This house is much larger then the last house, which is great. More room to move around, and more room for the boatload of stuff we have. I might put pictures up later somewhere so readers can view my second class living arrangements. But I like it. Our landlord Mr. Wiggins is a full time musician, which I find great, being a musician myself.
So, going on. School is about to start for most people, means it's time for me to find a job. Soon the hunt will commence, hopefully I'll find something that doesn't outright suck, and something in my expertise...
I started this on the 20th and now it's the 29th, har. Nine days and nothing new, how thrilling. I've decided to get back into the forum scene, as well as Monie and I (after obtaining a web design..) are going to start working on Web Grounds, and another side project. I myself have started learning a little about git, and learning how to use github. Right now I plan to busy myself with a customizable pastebin that I'm working on (open source), will have things no other pastebin has, more to come later.
I've decided I need to start doing some work to this site, since it's looked the same since I started it, for the most part. Probably not going to change the skin, can't find many decent WordPress themes that I don't have to pay for, and I can't currently make one myself. I figure with my love for WhatPulse, I'll add a stats bar on the right side bar under my status bar, which for those that don't know, shows my status on SinIRC (away, online, offline). Anyone that actually reads this can feel free to make suggestions to what I can do to make this site a little less lame.
I've decided to start learning German, finally. I've obtained Rosetta Stone with quite a few languages, and started Lesson one this morning. I loved it. Very interesting way to teach, I recommend anyone wanting to learn a language to give Rosetta Stone a go. After German, I plan to move onto Spansh, then probably Italian, I have a handful to chose from, so I'm good to go for a while. Maybe I could become a linguist?
I can't think of a lot more to post, and I'm lacking sleep, so I'll ramble on until I'm totally out. Zuwer rick rolled me on skype last night, I've never seen this before till he rick rolled me, and recommend everyone watch it, check this out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXO3OMGKPpw. Tis epic.
Last weekend(?) I went to Zarnithon's, while I was at his house, I showed him a ARG, was hilarious. I'd link to it, but I can't remember the IP address where you discover most this junk. Anyway, the site is a flash site disguised as Google. Anyway, you type in the right word, and it goes full screen, turns into (what at first glance seems like) a live feed of a girl in a small white room. The scene differs when you go to watch it over and over, though whoever made all of it is a genius. Continuing, as Robert (Zarn) sees it, he looks at me and says "I was waiting for it to turn into a video of us and I was going to start running." in so many words. I lol'd, totally hilarious. I can totally see it too. Only if it did happen, I can see him shooting back his chair, jumping out, while yelling "AHH", and running out of the room. For the reader, it's not as humorous, seeing nobody reading this probably knows him.
I'm done, for great justice.
Another site.
Well, after about a year of hosting Sindacious.com from my friend Eric's server, something happened and all my data was erased. This was unexpected, however I don't believe I had anything of importance on the server (other then the original design of Sindacious.com, which I might be able to get out of his backup), so all is well. Since this event I've moved Sindacious.com over to the same place I host SinIRC.net and Zaphyous.com, on Extroverthost.com. I'll post more useless information nobody cares about when I mess with the template a little more, and get stuff back to how it was, and probably going to move this to /blog/ and make some random splash page.