OhGizmo! Archive Prison Pen – Useful For Writing, Not For Shivving

We had these at work a few years ago, and while as cool as they were, they wrote like crap and dried out even faster. That and if you left them in the sun, a few days later the plastic/flexy part would dry out and then break. But they are cool looking.

OhGizmo! Archive Prison Pen – Useful For Writing, Not For Shivving

SSH and Permissions

I just spent the better part of the last 2 days working on setting up SSH with private/public shared keys. I’ve done this many a times so I launched my nifty file containing the documentation I’ve used in the past and went to work. I first made my key pairs on both machines, and then I transfered the file to there respective sides. The connection for hostA to hostB worked flawlessly from the first instance, now hostB to hostA was another story. Of course the first thing I did was check the permissions:

hostA:> chmod 700 ~user1/.ssh
hostA:> chmod 600 ~user1/.ssh/*

and tried again… still did not work. Next I checked the /etc/ssh/sshd_config , everything looked fine and actually when diff’d with the one on the other server, they were identical. I should mention that hostB is a Redhat ES 4.4 server and hostA is Centos 4.4 server (basically identical). Well I scratched my head and went to google. Of course every forum and mailing list result I found said: “check the permissions”. Well I did it again….. and again… and again…. still no luck. This is when I decided to try a different user.
hostA:> chmod 700 ~user2/.ssh
hostA:> chmod 600 ~user2/.ssh/*
And guess what…. it worked. this is when it hit me. the actuall directory structure. The typical hierarchy looks like this:
owner path
root /home
user1 /home/user1
user2 /home/user2

but this was my hierarchy:
owner path
root /home
user2 /home/user2
user1 /home/user2/user1

All I can figure is that since the parent to the users home was not owned by root, SSH didn’t work. Solution:

owner path
root /home
user2 /home/user2
user1 /home/user1

ln -s /home/user1 home/user2/user1

Argh…. 2 days wasted and while I swore it was not permissions, it was just under the name “ownership”. All because for layout reasons I want the home directory of one user with in the other.

Mobile Posting

Sometimes I just don’t understand mobile posting, that or I’m just impatient. Last Saturday, I attempted to post 2 entries from my phone. Typically I get a response back from the server saying that they were posted with in a few minutes, this time, those replies never came. I tried and tried, sent the same posts several times, and nothing happened. The next day, the only way I managed to get the post to work was by deleting the device from the mobile list and then re-adding the device. While a pain, not a problem, things seemed to be working from that point on. Now for the interesting part…. today I’ve received 4 replies to the blog entries I sent on Saturday. My question is, was it my phone/service provider causing the issue, or was it a blogger issue? Who know… I just hope that it doesn’t happen too often.

First Aid and CPR

Today is CPR and first aid trainig at work. I always like practicing on partial bodies. After lunch we get to do the first aid part.

Martin Scorsese – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is kind of scary, we are sitting here watching the Oscars, and as Martin Scorsese won the Oscar, we decided to look up whether or not he had previously won an Oscar. Wikipedia, surprisingly enough it had already been updated to state that he won the Academy Award for Best Director on February 25th, 2007.

Martin Scorsese – Wikipedia

update 12:17: The departed just won best film, this too is already on Wikipedia

Remembering to renew over due library books

Late last week Ben pointed out a another reason that he loved the Arlington Public Library. I even commented that I like the same fact about the public library system here in Miami. I also mentioned that my only problem with the library was remembering to renew my books before they go over due. You’d think that would of been a great clue to myself to go an check the status of my books…. of course not…. 4 days later I’m finally checking the status and yes they were over due….. another $7 dollars down towards the purchase of new books at the MDPLS. Oh well may next time.

First opera

Well our first opera is over. It was a nice light opera. I really enjoyed it but must say it took a bit to adjust to the high box seats. The view was amazing. That said I think it was a very nice performance. The emotion in the voices was amazing. I have one small complaint…. while the subtitles made it nice to understand what was going on, but being on top of the stage it made it hard to pay attention to both. Anyways that all said I’m looking forward to the next chance we get to enjoy an opera.

update: this post too was attempted last night but mobile blogging issues arose.

Night at the Opera

Lauren’s dad gave us tickets to the Opera tonight. A congregant has box seats. “L’Italiana in Algeria” by Gioachino Rossini. So this is our view and here we are.

update: this and the following opera post were actually attempted to be sent last night, but ever since I moved to my new Treo650 I’ve had various mobile blogging issues. anyways… hopefully mobile blogging will continue to work now.

First Opera

Well our first opera is over. It was a nice light opera. I really enjoyed it but must say it took a bit to adjust to the high box seats. The view was amazing. That said I think it was a very nice performance. The emotion in the voices was amazing. I have one small complaint…. while the subtitles made it nice to understand what was going on, but being on top of the stage it made it hard to pay attention to both. Anyways that all said I’m looking forward to the next chance we get to enjoy an opera.

Night at the Opera

Lauren's dad gave us tickets to the Opera tonight. A congregant has box seats. "L'Italiana in Algeria" by Gioachino Rossini. So this is our view and here we are.