Debian/Ubuntu no ip

sudo cp debian.noip2.sh /etc/init.d/noip2
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/noip2
sudo update-rc.d noip2 defaults

Career

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131111000517-5670386-a-secret-to-successful-interviews
http://thoughtcatalog.com/brianna-wiest/2014/02/15-crucial-pieces-of-career-advice-you-probably-wont-learn-in-a-classroom/
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140215200145-131079-the-myth-of-the-bell-curve
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130819190438-36052017-cut-your-meeting-time-by-90
http://www.careerconservatory.com/technical-interviews-an-instrument-of-exclusion-and-discrimination/

Language is a virus from outer space

Here are some interesting links about languages.
http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/13732.aspx

Printer driver Easter egg after OS X upgrade

This post: https://discussions.apple.com/message/20156136#20156136 was a huge help after I upgraded OS X and couldn't get the correct printer drivers installed. Sure, it removes all the current printers, but adding them back is easy and one gets the newest drivers in the process.

Speeding up audio books

I really like to listen to audio books as I spend a lot of time on the road. I've had several that we essentially "unlistenable" due to the narrator reading so slowly. With help from http://lifehacker.com/5458052/how-do-i-speed-up-hundreds-of-audio-files I created two chains in Audacity and could then use the File->Apply Chains... to the audio files:

exim taking forever to start

I ran into troubles with exim4 on debian taking forever to start. Strace'ing it revealed it was trying to look itself up using DNS, ignoring what was in /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf. I was testing a box before I hooked to a network that had a DNS server running. Commenting out everything in /etc/resolv.conf took care of things. What if I only wanted exim4 for local delivery, which I did? BTW, it also makes logging in with ssh a lot faster as sshd is doing reverse lookups.

dbus error on connection to CentOS 6 and SELinux

There are a number of postings around talking about 'Could not connect to session bus: An SELinux policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient (rejected message had sender "(unset)" interface "org.freedesktop.DBus" member "Hello" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.DBus")' with suggestions it's solved. Not for me, not using NoMachine, even with SELinux being permissive. Weird. Anyway, here's what worked:

$sudo grep dbus /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow

#============= ROLES ==============

role system_r types unconfined_dbusd_t;

$ sudo grep dbus /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M dbus
$ sudo semodule -i dbus.pp