Stumbled upon this tonight; looks like you can see some cool stuff the browser’s doing as well as modify some things. Paste the following in the browser address bar:
chrome://net-internals/
Dangerously fun!
Not sure if this is a coincidence or not, but after the latest mac system update, I was no longer able to start Apache. All I kept getting was the following error message in my apache error logs:
[alert] (EAI 8)nodename nor servname provided, or not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "[myservername]"
I tried rebooting and stopping/starting MAMP several times, but it always came back to that error and wouldn’t start Apache.
Finally I ran across this post that led me to the right answer:
I’d suggest adding your hostname to /etc/hosts. Something like “127.0.0.1 testbsd” should help.
It worked like a charm. After I added my server name to the hosts file, I could restart Apache just fine.
Thank you forum posters 
Needed to diff two directories, that happened to be using two different versioning systems — Mercurial, and Subversion (SVN). Took a couple minutes to get it, so thought I’d add it for tips in the future.
diff -r --exclude=.hg --exclude=.svn www www2
Here’s a bit of code that I always need to look up 
It finds any subversion (.svn) folders in the current directory tree and deletes them. I guess this is one benefit to using Mercurial or Git, as they only have one hidden directory at the top level. There’s no turning back from this so be sure that’s what you want to do!
As always, double-check the directory you’re in before running this command.
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`
Sadly at my new place of employment, they still use Exchange server for their emails. They set my mac up with Microsoft Entourage 2008, and I’ve been working through that. When daylight savings time changed, all my emails were saying they were coming in an hour earlier than they actually were. I didn’t have time till this morning to look into it, but I discovered that the standard Microsoft solution fixed it Restart the application.
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I recently had to modify some rules for IPTables on CentOS 5.5. It’s a great firewall and very powerful, but man can it be a pain in the rear. Here’s some notes to myself that someone may find useful someday
/sbin/iptables -D RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 2083 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -D RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 2087 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -D RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
/sbin/iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 2083 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 2087 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
And when you’re done
/sbin/iptables-save
I guess Webkit stopped support for the tab character entry in textareas a while ago. Luckily there’s an Chrome Extension that re-enables it plus some:
I wonder, if someone was going to rape your neighbor and kill her children as she watched, and there was nothing you could do to stop them. Would you at least help her afterwards? I hope I would.
This whole event that Ann’s putting on tomorrow has changed my life. It’s made me realize that (as elementary as it sounds) people are people, not news stories or “numbers”. This, and much worse happens dozens of times a day for people in the Congo. I’ve realized that I can’t just say “wow, that’s terrible” and then flip the tab in my browser over to Netflix; doing that is effectively turning your head, or passing “…by on the other side”. Sure you’ve realized that it’s a bad thing, but you have done nothing.
I’m tired of doing nothing, and I hope this sparks the same feeling in your heart and mind. Don’t push it away, come join with others who have had the same realization, or take 3 minutes to donate. It’s 1 to maybe 1.5 hours. Ann and I aren’t benefiting financially from this event, we’re doing this because we want you to know there is something you can do to help. You may not be able to stop what happens, but you can help heal after.
Help your neighbor that just happens to live in another country.
Many of you know myself and my wife, otherwise you probably have no idea how you got here. Over the past year and a half, our family’s life has changed dramatically. We began to see people as people instead of statistics. We began to care, and to find ways to help an individual, a real person with their own hopes and dreams. By doing this our family has become closer and stronger, and our lives changed for the better.
It started back in 2009 when Ann learned of an incredible organization called Women for Women International. She discovered that she could help someone who was hurting … her sister who just happened to live halfway around the world.
She ran in Denver’s Run for Congo Women, and was the top fundraiser for 2009! She was so inspired by that, that she continued looking for ways to help. She made plans to run in the 2010 Run for Congo Women; but when she saw the date it was on, she knew she wouldn’t be able to make it. She was heartbroken.
A few weeks later we decided that we could put on our own event this year, and that hopefully we could raise enough money to sponsor a couple women. This is where the Idea for Yoga for Congo Women was born; out of necessity.
Ann’s spent the past 6 months planning and preparing for this event. She’s got 7 company sponsors, and has sent out over 40 personal letters to the various yoga studios and recreation centers around Denver. She has sent press releases to every news station in Denver, and posted in every available forum for events in the Denver area. The response has been mixed; from people who were disgusted at the thought of having a flyer for “that type of event” to others who saw the purpose and opportunity to truly help someone who was, and is, suffering.
Yoga for Congo Women is just 10 days away now. The proceeds of the event all go to Women for Women International. Our family is into this event several hundred dollars; I tell you that so that you can know how much this means to us.
Please, we’d love to have you register or simply donate to this event. If you come, it will change your life.
