Equipment: 16” Dobsonian, 55mm, 12mm TeleVue eypieces, Paracorr.
New objects observed: NGC 3607, NGC 3608
Previously viewed objects: None.
Not that great of a night. I did see two new Herschel 400 objects, NGC 3607 and 3608, but even getting those took a while. This night was, sadly, murkier than the Clear Sky Chart indicated it might be (the smog’s still hanging around, and while it wasn’t as bad as it was for the previous few days it was still pretty bad), and that’s all I ended up being able to see.
Equipment: 16” Dobsonian, 55mm, 6mm, 12mm TeleVue eyepieces, Paracorr.
New objects observed: NGC 4216, NGC 4251, NGC 4278, NGC 4274, NGC 4283, NGC 4526, NGC 4414
Previously viewed objects: None. All new things this time.
The weather’s been pretty nice here over these last few days. Now that I’ve observed all of the Messier objects, I decided to take a crack at the Herschel 400. Everything I was looking for this night was pretty difficult; there were a number of galaxies that I was looking for that I never was able to definitely find, but I was able to find many of the ones I did set out to find.
If you have the Octopress ADN timeline plugin on your site, and want to do the App.net domain verification, it’s really easy.
First, start the verification process on App.net.
Second, in whatever custom aside you put your ADN timeline in, find the link to your ADN profile (it should be something like “Follow @yourname”). Add ‘rel=“me”’ to the anchor tag.
Explaining further, change this line:
Follow <a href="https://alpha.app.net/{{ site.adn_timeline.username }}">@{{ site.
Equipment: 16” Dobsonian, 55mm, 12mm TeleVue eypieces.
New objects observed: Messier 61, NGC 4261, NGC 4260, NGC 4270, NGC 4273, NGC 4281, NGC 4268, NGC 4324, Messier 98, Messier 100, NGC 4312, Messier 83 (Update: Geez, how did I manage to forget to actually list these when I first wrote this? I plead distraction by kids.)
Previously viewed objects observed: Messier 44, Saturn
Location: Near Mt. St. Helens
I had been on the verge of having observed all of the Messier objects for a while, but conditions here haven’t been good for observing for months.
I’ve had these handy-dandy pages with wonderful vim tips up in tabs on my browser for a couple weeks or so now, and I don’t want to lose them. They’re super cool and worthy of study, though, so I’m stowing them here. As much as I’ve used vi and its derivatives over the years, there’s always more to learn.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118 http://www.fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace
At long last, I’ve cleaned up and generalized the cookbook we’ve been using to install lighttpd on our servers here, and finally released the Chef cookbook for lighttpd to the world.
It works pretty similarly to the cookbooks for other webservers, so there aren’t really any surprises there. I have a few further things planned with it, like adding CentOS support and getting it to work with test-kitchen. In the meantime feel free to check it out, especially if you use or have used lighttpd in the past, and let me know if you have any suggestions.
If you have a “mature”, “legacy”, or just plain old application and are considering using Chef or similar to automate provisioning and deployment, you might be a little discouraged when you browse through the available cookbooks and see that the vast majority of them are written for the latest and greatest programs and frameworks. You might be discouraged at first, like I was, when you see tons of resources for rails apps and ngnix, but not so much for, say, mod_perl and lighttpd.
If you’re doing local mod_perl development on Mac OS X and find that after Software Update runs that Apache is segfaulting on every request with an error like [Tue Mar 19 23:30:01 2013] [notice] child pid 43158 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), check your /etc/apache2/httpd.conf for a line like this:
LoadModule hfs_apple_module libexec/apache2/mod_hfs_apple.so If it’s not commented out, do so. For whatever reason, mod_hfs_apple and mod_perl do not play nicely together.
Automation’s great for ops, no matter the size of your workplace. I’ve noticed, however, that there seems to be a certain assumption that automating deploying and maintaining servers with something like Chef is most useful for huge outfits with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of servers. Undoubtedly it’s great for them, but I think that same kind of automation is important even if you’re the only ops guy at your company and you only manage a small handful of servers.
If you’ve been following Octopress’ development lately, you’ve probably noticed that Twitter timeline support was dropped because version 1.0 of their API is going to be shut off soon, and the only Twitter timelines can be embedded on another site is with those hideous Twitter embed widgets.
If you want something like the old Twitter timeline you can join App.net and use the adn-timeline to display your ADN posts on your site and crosspost as needed between Twitter and ADN (shockingly, I’m @captain_tenille over there too).