Nozell, rhymes with Oh Hell

I was looking through my web logs recently and found a number of people were displaying my images
on their websites. Sure it is a bit flattering that someone liked my photo of our rug was perfect for the background of their blog or thought that embedding a 1M photo I took of John Kerry and Howard Dean in a high traffic web forums [1 | 2] was a good idea. However they sucked up nearly 200M of my monthly bandwidth quota and didn’t even give me credit for the photos. You know, I think that may be the worst part.

So this evening I googled around for the magic Apache configuration commands that would prevent
JPG/GIF images from being embedded in someone else’s web page. (ie: one not hosted on
nozell.com)

For the record, just pop this in a file named “.htaccess” in the same directory as were the images
are located and it will refuse to let GIF/JPG images to be loaded from other sites.

Read Ken Coar’s Preventing Image ‘Theft’ tutorial for complete details.

Lately, I’ve been using the bleeding edge version of iPodder from CVS (which confusingly is in the
iSpider directory) Here is how you can grab a copy for yourself:

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ipodder login
CVS password: (press return)

$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ipodder co iSpider

[tons of informational messages about downloading iSpider]

$ cd iSpider
$ export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx-2.5.3-gtk2-unicode:$PYTHONPATH-unicode:$PYTHONPATH
$ python iPodderGui.pyw

… And fire up your favorite dev tools!

I’ve been using the ipodder beta on
my laptop that runs GNU/Linux Debian/Sarge in the command line only mode. But over the holidays there was and update to wxpython that gets the GUI working.

This is what you need to do:

$ alien –to-deb ipodder-1.1.2-1cl.noarch.rpm
$ sudo dpkg -i ipodder_1.1.2-2_all.deb
$ export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx-2.5.3-gtk2-unicode:$PYTHONPATH-unicode:$PYTHONPATH
$ /opt/iPodder/iPodderGui.py

and enjoy…

Last night I was mucking around with festival, the text to speech tool (ala the old DECtalk. On my [laptop](http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f33-367367.html) it was speaking too fast.

The solution is found in the Festival FAQ: Running Festival

Create the file festival/lib/siteinit.scm (if you don’t already have it) and add the following

(Parameter.set 'Audio_Method 'Audio_Command)

(Parameter.set ‘Audio_Command “sox -t raw -sw -r $SR $FILE -c2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp”)

On debian, you put those two lines in /etc/festival.scm

Out of the box, when Red Hat Enterprise Linux requests a DHCP address, it doesn’t send up a hostname for a dynamic DNS server to use.

It is simple, but seemingly different on each distribution. But for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, create a file /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf (or /etc/dhclient-eth1.conf for eth1, etc) and put this in it:

send host-name “yourhostname”;

Of course, you can put other options for dhclient in there too.

If you poke around in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup you’ll see how it is used.

Looking for how to do this for Debian/Sarge? Look here

Out of the box, when debian/sarge requests a DHCP address, it doesn’t send up a hostname for a dynamic DNS server to use.

It is simple, but seemingly different on each distribution. But for debian/sarge, create a file /etc/dhclient.conf and put this in it:

send host-name “yourhostname”;

Of course, you can put other options for dhclient in there too.

Looking for how to do this for Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Look here

It has been a year of using imaps and the certificate expired.

On the imap server, do this:

# cd /etc/ssl/certs/
# openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out imapd.pem -keyout imapd.pem -days 365
Generating a 1024 bit RSA private key
……….++++++
……………………………….++++++
writing new private key to ‘imapd.pem’
—–
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter ‘.’, the field will be left blank.
—–
Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:US
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:New Hampshire
Locality Name (eg, city) []:Merrimack
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Wildcat Learning
Solutions
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Home Server
Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []:Marc Nozell
Email Address []:marc@nozell.com
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