I promise to update this thing, really. I have absolutely no idea what with, yet, but I'll update it.
I actually have a couple of things worth writing about, so they should be up tomorrow. And I'll eventually migrate this blog away from the coding horror that is WordPress, possibly to Habari, as it looks like a nice lightweight and clean point to hack from. I'll also, finally, give the blog (and eventually the domain in general) a suitable makeover, rather than using the Hemingway template.
Here's to 2008, and all who sail in her. ♥
After too many months of occasionally becoming frustrated by bash spitting "bad interpreter: permission denied" back at me when I tried to run ./something, I finally googled the error with "bash" prepended to it - I'd had no luck trying just the error before, in any combination, and was at a loss as to why things weren't working. After a few minutes spent trawling an archived email thread, I found some mention of partition-level execution permissions... That was when Palm met Forehead.
Long story short, the answer is the noexec flag I'd set in my CentOS 4.4's /etc/fstab file for various partitions - I confirmed this by trying a ./something on a partition without that flag set, and as expected, it worked perfectly.
I hope this helps someone else one day, if only so my initial frustration (and now my extreme embarrassment at not solving this sooner) isn't all that comes of it!
(Yes, I'm still alive. Yes, I'll probably start giving this place the love and attention is so badly needs - "soon", as always.)
December 17, 2006 11:52pm
I'm ill. Again! I already had to miss the Multipack's Christmas meal, and now I've got something else taking a swing at my immune system. I must be making up for all the past years of relatively sickness-free winters.
On a geekier note, I'm currently waiting for a new server to be provisioned from Hetzner.de so I can migrate some sites there from my current one at The Planet (avoid, avoid!). This site is hosted on it right now, and I've been having problem after problem with the system, seemingly down to the buggy-as-all-hell cPanel. I was at my wits' end, and just had the dubious pleasure of discovering that a simple reboot, while being a regular necessity for most Windows boxes, is also the magical cure for the most insoluble cPanel/WHM problems - or at least, it was in my case. I suspect some subtle hardware fault to be the root cause, but after a flawless reboot, there are no signs of problems (yet - touch wood). I'm going with DirectAdmin for the new server, as cPanel's parasitical nature is limiting me far too much now. It was good for a clueless green newbie nearly three years ago, but I have sufficient systems administration knowledge to ditch the training wheels now, I think. Maybe one of these days I'll even install a BSD... ;)
Now I'm going back to bed, and hopefully the copious amounts of chicken soup and Lemsips I've imbibed will soon bring my defences back up to snuff.
...when an idea strikes you, one you think is really quite good, only to find out that someone's already done it, and probably better than you would have?
I know I do.
I had an idea, then found PasswordMaker, a great implementation of said idea, and went off to cry. I now use it (near-)religiously, because it makes my life easier than having one "throw-away" password for sites I'm not so concerned about, and because I now have more secure passwords on sites I am concerned about than I used to. I've been using their Firefox extension for well over a month now, and wholeheartedly recommend it. :)
Saying how cool I think PasswordMaker is was one of two main points for this post; the other is this: How many of you have had one of these great ideas, only to find you've been beaten to the punch? Do you think it's easier these days, or increasingly more difficult, to do something innovative on the Internet?
I'm still undecided.
No sooner than I posted my hack, I read the great news that Joe Hewitt is soliciting feature requests from FireBug users for the next version - hooray!
If domain filtering is something you'd like to see in FireBug, go there and add your voice (unfortunately, it seems you'll need JavaScript enabled to do so).
With any luck, my hack will become obsolete with the next installment of our fiery little friend.