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I took some interesting pictures the last few days. All sorts of exciting evidence and the base for a post on coffee 
When earlier today I needed to produce some of that evidence; I discovered that my SD card or whatever was having a hickup. The files (admittedly, nearly 300 pictures) weren’t in the directory and needless to say that didnt make me happy :/
I got the card out of the phone (gotta love the fact that android doesn’t mind the hot swapping) and connected it to a reader and the laptop!
My hope that the files were there but just not being shown when using the phone was quickly squashed; the directory only contained the small amount of files I was able to see when connected to the phone
LOST.DIR
Android apparently has a LOST.DIR construct (reminiscent of EXT3s lost+found) where they attach files that are on the disk but not attached to some valid directory.
Which is where all my lost pictures were (needless to say I cried hot tears of joy – LOL)
This does of course screw up your filenames, timestamps, file extensions, whatnot.. luckily the picture meta data has all the date and in most cases even gps data you might need
Gotta love android & teh linuxiez
I was reading on slashdot about dumping XP
Maybe it is time! and not to w7 but to a real operating system
Ubuntu is ready for the desktop, I now there are comments like "missing apps", "no games" ...
Most daily work can be done out of the box on Linux
"office", "mail", "surfing" can be done without a problem
Migrating from XP to Linux is for most users not a big problem,
Even my mother is using Ubuntu for 3 years now
She migrated from XP to Ubuntu gutsy and I just needed to give some small explanations about evolution mail and firefox
currently she works with Lucid and firefox, amsn, evolution, picasa, gimp and ooffice
so idd its time to drop XP :)
Someone (of my family) has noticed that he could login to the Zarafa webaccess without a passwd
I was very surprised coz I had never tried to login with a wrong passwd
It seems that if your php is running with the same account as your Zarafa server the socket grants everything
What was I thinking when I changed this server to apache2-mpm-worker and fastcgi (exept the fact for tuning my apache)
taking a simple username for zarafa ...
Forgotten that Zarafa was running with the user zarafa!
And even worse I did not check for wrong passwords after migrating
So if you want to SuexecUserGroup create a uniq uid
Also playing save is switching the socket to a tcp socket
The http socket will alway's ask for credentials
(vi /usr/share/zarafa-webaccess/config.php)
- define("DEFAULT_SERVER","file:///var/run/zarafa");
+ define("DEFAULT_SERVER","http://localhost:236/zarafa");
(don't forget z-push and webaccess-mobile they have there own config file)
#puppetcamp was awesome, @patrickdebois did a great job in organizing this event
There was the opportunity to meet the experts behind puppetlabs and follow great talks
The interactive open-space sessions where great to share knowledge between administrators
It is clear that the world needs puppet.
I look forward to a continuation of this event ...
While checking the Google Analytics for gertschepens.be, I noticed someone ending up there with a “gish linux how to install” search. Since I don’t answer that anywhere (nor do the interwebs), I thought Id do a lil Q&A 
This question isn’t really answered anywhere because its very straight forward!
The linux package is called gish153-1.tar.gz or something alike. You will of course need this to install the Gish! Buy it at http://www.chroniclogic.com/gish.htm (its worth it!)
Installing it is pretty straight forward, as it is simply extracting the archive and putting it where you want to keep it. The .tar.gz (or .tgz) file is an archive file; a lot like the more known .zip or .tar files and extracting them is really simple.
You can extract the file in several easy ways
- By double clicking it. This will open the file roller or whatever its linked to depending on what linux distro you have. Click extract, choose where you want to extract it and done.
- By right clicking the file and selecting “Extract Here”; this will extract Gish in the map you have the archive in.
- By navigating the commandline to the map where the Gish archive is and typing “tar -xvzf gish153-1.tar.gz”. If this doesnt work, check that the archive is in that map and check if the archive name in the command here is correct. This will extract the Gish archive in the map run the command in.
After extracting, you ll have a map with all the Gish files in. You can simply run the “gish” file to play. You can store this map anywhere you want, but do it somewhere logical because you ll navigate there every time you want to play it.
And thats how its installed. Simple, no
Now, you ll probably also want to launch it from your Gnome menu and simply adding the link will have the Gish start without any graphics (this is because the paths are relative and the app as such doesnt find the files it needs.) You can create a new launcher using the menu editor under System > Preferences > Main menu; there select the Games menu and click “New Item”. You can quickly solve this by following the guide on their forums Gish Launcher in Ubuntu or by using the following starting link for your app menu launcher command (The command assumes you have the Gish installed in your home directory; for example “/home/yourname/gish153″. If this is not where you put it; change that Bash will probably be in /bin but if it doesnt work, do check that too.)
/bin/bash -c “cd ~/gish153/ && ./gish”
The mechanics are that you have bash change the working directory to the right path and start the gish from there. Ill see about posting this to the forum thread too, but I honestly dont have the time right now to do the registration dance & all..
Id never have thought of writing this, but since there was a search hit for it, I guess its something people have questions about. I hope its of use to someone!
Edit: As blogs are a fleeting medium, this is maintained at gertschepens.be
