Ramblings: January 2011

Sunday 30 January 2011

thinkpad performance

Is it worth buying memory and battery for old thinkpads
t40 Intel Pentium M 1.50GHz 393
t42 Intel Pentium M 1.73GHz 448

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

AMD Athlon II P320 Dual-Core 1270

Thursday 27 January 2011

http://serverfault.com/questions/220184/setup-a-reverse-proxy-with-nginx-and-apache-on-ec2
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-fedora-install-configure-nginx-php5/
how-to-get-nginx-to-serve-up-on-an-elastic-ip

Monday 24 January 2011

xquery

xquery to log events and json for dojo

Sunday 23 January 2011

How to install hookbox on aws

Using this image

Basic 64-bit Amazon Linux AMI 2010.11.1 Beta (AMI Id: ami-75d4e101)
Amazon Linux AMI Base 2010.11.1, EBS boot, 64-bit architecture with Amazon EC2 AMI Tools. Root Device Size: 8 GiB

Then install dev tools, see

# yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

And more..

sudo yum -y install python-devel

Now install it

[ec2-user@ip-10-48-109-40 bin]$ sudo  easy_install hookbox 
Searching for hookbox
Best match: hookbox 0.3.3
Processing hookbox-0.3.3-py2.6.egg
hookbox 0.3.3 is already the active version in easy-install.pth
Installing hookbox script to /usr/bin

Using /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/hookbox-0.3.3-py2.6.egg
Processing dependencies for hookbox
Searching for greenlet>=0.3
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/greenlet/
Reading http://bitbucket.org/ambroff/greenlet
Reading http://undefined.org/python/#greenlet
Best match: greenlet 0.3.1
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/g/greenlet/greenlet-0.3.1.tar.gz#md5=8d75d7f3f659e915e286e1b0fa0e1c4d
Processing greenlet-0.3.1.tar.gz
Running greenlet-0.3.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-CU_Uff/greenlet-0.3.1/egg-dist-tmp-ODnl11
/usr/lib64/python2.6/distutils/dist.py:266: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'repository'
  warnings.warn(msg)
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
Adding greenlet 0.3.1 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/greenlet-0.3.1-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg
Finished processing dependencies for hookbox
[ec2-user@ip-10-48-109-40 bin]$ hookbox status
2011-01-23 23:28:44,561 - hookbox - INFO - Listening to hookbox on http://0.0.0.0:8001
^CCtr+C pressed; Exiting.
[ec2-user@ip-10-48-109-40 bin]$

Friday 21 January 2011

exist

Trying to install existdb on ec2 based on these instructions

could not connect to this image

andy@ThinkPad-T40:~$ ssh -i keys/existkey1.pem root@ec2-46-137-17-37.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com 
The authenticity of host 'ec2-46-137-17-37.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com (46.137.17.37)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 14:0e:5a:bd:39:d4:c4:15:e9:a5:05:d2:1f:0c:8f:6d.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? y
Please type 'yes' or 'no': yes
Warning: Permanently added 'ec2-46-137-17-37.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com,46.137.17.37' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
Please login as the ec2-user user rather than root user.

Connection to ec2-46-137-17-37.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com closed.
andy@ThinkPad-T40:~$ ssh -i keys/existkey1.pem -l ec2-user root@ec2-46-137-17-37.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com 
Please login as the ec2-user user rather than root user.

Connection to ec2-46-137-17-37.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com closed.
andy@ThinkPad-T40:~$ ssh -i keys/existkey1.pem  ec2-user@ec2-46-137-17-37.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com 

       __|  __|_  )  Amazon Linux AMI
       _|  (     /     Beta
      ___|\___|___|

See /usr/share/doc/amzn-ami/image-release-notes for latest release notes. :-)
[ec2-user@ip-10-48-109-40 ~]$ hostname
ip-10-48-109-40
[ec2-user@ip-10-48-109-40 ~]$

Corrections

$ sudo /usr/local/exist/tools/wrapper/bin/exist.sh start

Result
>Working now, here

Tuesday 18 January 2011

hookbox install

Sadly failed

readynas1:/c/webroot/xplorer/files# easy_install hookbox
Searching for hookbox
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/hookbox/
Reading http://hookbox.org
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/easy_install", line 7, in ?
sys.exit(
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1712, in main
with_ei_usage(lambda:
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1700, in with_ei_usage
return f()
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1716, in 
distclass=DistributionWithoutHelpCommands, **kw
File "distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
File "distutils/dist.py", line 946, in run_commands
File "distutils/dist.py", line 966, in run_command
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 211, in run
self.easy_install(spec, not self.no_deps)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 434, in easy_install
self.local_index
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg/setuptools/package_index.py", line 466, in fetch_distribution
dist = find(self, requirement)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg/setuptools/package_index.py", line 439, in find
for dist in env[req.key]:
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 766, in __getitem__
_sort_dists(dists)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.4.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2444, in _sort_dists
dists[::-1] = [d for hc,d in tmp]
ValueError: attempt to assign sequence of size 17 to extended slice of size 16
readynas1:/c/webroot/xplorer/files#

Sunday 16 January 2011

python

Installed Python 2.4.4 on readynas with intention of hosting hookbox locally if required.

readynas1:~# python
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Oct 31 2010, 22:03:48)
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> quit
'Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit.'
>>>
readynas1:~#

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mumuplayer

Monday 10 January 2011

T-mobile broadband stick

Now working on ubuntu 10.10 after long struggle.
First I was using WCID for its WEP support. This disables network manager, which is a mistake as networkmanager can support WEP and has mobile support.

Force ubuntu to connect with wep
UK T-mobile Mobile Broadband ZTE usb stick 120
Using NetworkManager with your 3G WWAN modem