I guess this will lead to LinkedIn offering a service to verify users. For a fee of course.
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While I am talking about my deep dark secrets, I have another thing I want to get off my chest. I use Apple’s MobileMe service for my family’s personal email. Yep, you heard that right. It’s not something that I wanted to talk about openly until today. Why today you ask? Thanks for asking and a picture is worth a thousand words… so they say.

MobileMe at it's finest

If this were a one time occurrence, I would just shrug it off. No big deal right? It happens almost daily and before you ask wise guy, no it is not my network.

Unless something shapes up with MobileMe, I will have to ship out when my renewal comes up. This happens far to often for a paid service. Maybe they should reevaluate their relationship with Google and outsource the web infrastructure and email to them.

Update 10/28/09: I noticed that you can cancel your MobileMe subscription within 45 days of the purchase or renewal, so I went ahead and canceled for a full refund to my CC

defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Reply-To"="tracy.phillips@example.com";}'

If you later decide that is not for you, then you can get back to the default by issuing

defaults delete com.apple.mail UserHeaders

It just so happens that we live only a few miles down the road from Fallbrook, California, the self proclaimed avocado capitol of the world. We have (really, really) fresh avocados most of the year.

Here is what you will need:

• 4 Medium Ripe Avocados – I prefer the Hass variety.
• 1/2 Medium Yellow Onion, finely minced
• 1 Heaping TSP Salt
• 1 Lime, hand squeezed, or 1/2 if you use any type of juicer
• 2 small Tomatoes, diced
• 2 TSP minced Garlic
• 1 TSP finely chopped Cilantro
• 1 Serrano or Jalapeno Pepper, finely diced – I throw in seeds and all

Take the avocado flesh out of it’s skin but cutting the avocado length-wise and twist the two halves to separate. Take the blade of your knife and kind of chop it down into the seed and twist it to extract the seed. Scoop out the flesh with a spoon. Put it into a bowl and mash it with a fork until it is at the desired consistency for you.

Take the rest of the ingredients above, dump them into your bowl and mix everything together.

I usually try to let it sit in the fridge for about 30 minutes so the flavors of the ingredients will mix. I say try because sometimes we just like to dive right in.

Tip: To keep your guac from browning, throw in a few avocado seeds into the bowl after you have everything mixed up.

[server][user][~]$ sudo su -
Password:
audit_log_user_command(): Connection refused

No harm in that, but it was unpleasant to look at none the less.

It finally got the better of me and I finally decided to go about fixing it.

This bug is in Redhat’s bugzilla located here. The fix is to patch your current version of sudo or use a newer version of sudo than sudo-1.6.9.p13. I opted to install the latest version of sudo as of t his writing, sudo 1.7.

This was a fresh install, so I needed to install a few rpm’s with yum.

[server][root][~]# yum install gcc pam-devel make

Then I did the build

[server][root][~]# wget http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/dist/sudo-1.7.0.tar.gz
[server][root][~]# tar xzvf sudo-1.7.0.tar.gz
[server][root][~]# cd sudo-1.7.0
[server][root][~]# ./configure
[server][root][~]# make
[server][root][~]# make install

That’s all there was to it. Now you can sudo til’ your hearts content without that annoying little message.

Now I can finally get ready for the Super Bowl party

10:55:18 [server] nfslock: rpc.statd startup failed

If you have, you might want to check and make sure that you have portmap running

[server][root][~]# service portmap status
portmap is stopped

Oppps. Portmap is not running. Let’s check and see if portmap is configured to start at boot?

[server][root][~]# chkconfig --list portmap
portmap        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off

And if it’s not (as is our case), configure it to start at boot:

[server][root][~]# chkconfig portmap on

Ahhhhh, thats more like it. This is how it should look:

[server][root][~]# chkconfig --list portmap
portmap         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

And crank it up

[server][root][~]# service portmap start
Starting portmap:                                          [  OK  ]

Now you can make sure it is running

[server][root][~]# service portmap status
portmap (pid 15384) is running...

There are a couple of ways to go about saving all of that output.

The easiest way is to do this is to run the script command

[server][root][~]# script

By default, this creates the output as typescript

If you wanted to change the name of the output file, you would invoke it as

[server][root][~]# script output.txt

or any other file of your choosing.

That starts a recording session that will record what goes on during your terminal session.

If you want to record users shell session from login to exit

In the user’s .bash_profile, put something like

exec /path/to/ttyrec session-log-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M)

That will create a log file in the form of session-log-YYYYMMDD-HHMM

Pretty nifty stuff.

An example of the filter keyword is shown below:

[server][root][~]# grep filter /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
filter =[ "a|loop|", "r|/dev/hdc|", "a|/dev/ide|", "r|.*|" ]

Pattern matching is based on the following logic:

• If any name matches any ‘a’ pattern, the device is accepted
• Otherwise if any name matches any ‘r’ pattern it is rejected
• Otherwise it is accepted.

NOTE: Be sure to only specify one filter line in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf since only one filter pattern is expected.

After changes are made to the lvm configuration file, it will be necessary to run the command vgscan in order for the changes to become active. Shown below is an example of running vgscan in extended debug output mode to activate the changes in the configuration file.

[server][root][~]# vgscan -vvvv

Jan  7 14:10:30 [server] sendmail[2822]: sql_select option missing
Jan  7 14:10:30 [server] sendmail[2822]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
Jan  7 14:10:30 [server] sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
Jan  7 14:10:30 [server] sendmail: sm-client startup succeeded

The reason is that if the plug-in is installed, SASL tries to load and initialize all plug-ins that it finds. When the SQL plug-in is initialized, it needs a valid sql_engine (which defaults to ‘mysql’) and sql_select options.

So what is the solution? If you do not need the cyrus-sasl-sql rpm, then you can remove it like so:

[server][root][~]# rpm -e cyrus-sasl-sql

You could also do the following instead:

[server][root][~]# rm /usr/lib/sasl2/libsql.*

There is good reason this soup has been on the menu in the U.S. Senate’s restaurant every day since 1901. There are several stories about the origin of that mandate, but none has been corroborated.

According to one story, the Senate’s bean soup tradition began early in the 20th-century at the request of Senator Fred Dubois of Idaho. Another story attributes the request to Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, who expressed his fondness for the soup in 1903.

Here is what you will need for about 6 cups of soup:

1 1/4 cups dried white beans
1 small ham hock
7 cups cold water

Bring the water to a boil, reduce and simmer until the beans are tender, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Remove the ham hock, discard the bone, skin and fat; dice the meat and return it to the pot.

Add:

1 large onion diced
3 medium celery ribs chopped
1 large potato, peeled and finely diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Simmer until the potato pieces are tender, which will take from 20 to 30 minutes.

The recipe in “Joy of Cooking” recommends that you take a potato masher and mash until the soup is creamy, we didn’t do that step.

That’s all there is to it and the results were yummmmy. This one is a keeper.