Category Archives: Journal

Git: Setting Up and Accessing a New Remote Respoitory

Using Backwater as the remote server, su to gitpriv and change into the repo directory. Here there are some top-level repos already, as well has some directories that contain like repos. These include “c-code” and “web.” If creating a repo … Continue reading

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GPS Data Conversion

Extract Only Track Info Remove Track Label Remove Beginning and End lines Get rid of Days and Year Add Commas

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Ubuntu: Installing kompoZer on 13.10

Install the dependencies: Download the packages: Install the packages and fix the broken dependencies, if any:

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Thumb Drive Backups…

Bought a 6-pack of 4GB USB thumb drives for various backups. I installed them on liminf01, liminf03, and kfserver01. Used the following commands to format and mount them, since CentOS 5.10 did not automatically mount them. I originally went with … Continue reading

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Git: Upgrading osCommerce

Change to the working directory and checkout the dev branch. Download the appropriate update file from http://www.oscommerce.com/Products and unzip it. Rename admin to lim_admin and copy the files over to the working directory. Change back to the working directory and … Continue reading

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Working on OS Commerce

Created web_store git report on kfserver01. Populated “master” with Gold version of code from 04/04/2011. Branched to “dev” and populated with code from 01/01/2012. Merged that to master checked 01/01/2013 and 01/01/2014, there were no changes. Brought in 03/03/2014 to … Continue reading

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Setting up a local Git using a remote server

Install git Configure git Setup SSH client to use port 2222 Setup SSH to login to the “origin” server without a password. Create source directory Clone Repos

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Changing the Color of Links

Using the ElegantThemes eBusiness theme, the default color for links did not stand out and links were hard to see. Resolved by making them red. In the style.css file, for the child theme, added the following line of code:

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Fun with mod_rewrite…

Today I had to create some specific/generic rewrite rules. The idea was to allow “motion.com,”www.motion.com,” “www.motion.com/index.html,” and “motion.com/index.html” all go to an index (domain for sale) page. However, let everything else forward to “learninginmotion.com.” So URLs like “www.motion.com/products/index.html” would forward … Continue reading

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Cleaning up…

Today was the real start of the new year cleanup process. Logged into the InMotionHosting account and deleted the nightly backups, leaving the ones from the 1st of each month, and started moving them over to ShareA:IT Archives/Web Backups.

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