Monthly Archives: April 2008

Capistrano Hangs on Upload

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Nathan Powell

If you find that Capistrano is hanging when you are attempting to deploy, adding: set :synchronous_connect, true to your deploy.rb file should fix you right up.

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A little more on editors

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Nathan Powell

I have been pretty open about my editor use over the last few months. I switched to emacs a while ago, then was trying Open Komodo, etc. Then I became a consultant. It was cool at first, I have computer … Continue reading →

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Bind on Ubuntu

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Nathan Powell

Oddly, when restarting Bind 9 on Ubuntu I noticed it would tell me it restarted OK, but in fact wouldn’t be running. npowell@chihiro:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/bind9 restart * Stopping domain name service… [ ok ] * Starting domain name service… [ … Continue reading →

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Curve ball

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Nathan Powell

Sometimes life throws us a curve ball. Hell sometimes when we know they are pitching at us, they throw that curve and it knocks you right on your can anyway. That happened to me this weekend. Due to circumstances beyond … Continue reading →

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Last long run before Lehigh

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Nathan Powell

Welp, that’s about it. I mean, I have two more weeks till Lehigh, but that was the last long run. I followed a very similar plan to what I did to prepare for Hands On House Half, a little over … Continue reading →

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Recent Runnings

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Nathan Powell

As usual I am busier than people that are only moderately busy. Work is going well, lots of interesting work to do to keep the mind ocupado. Personal life is good, and always an adventure. I want to document 3 … Continue reading →

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Most Common Bash

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Nathan Powell

Just in the interest of standing on the shoulders of Patrick…and a bunch of other people… npowell@delilah:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head 324 ls 266 cd 243 clear 105 svn 100 ssh 80 vi 58 sudo 24 cp … Continue reading →

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Lynn

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Nathan Powell

I will miss you.

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Editors and IDE’s

Posted on April 6, 2008 by Nathan Powell

A while ago, I switched from Vim to Emacs. I did this for a couple of reasons. Mostly I was hoping to learn elisp which would enable me to make the editor do what I want, and avoid frustration with … Continue reading →

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Training Log 04.03.08

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Nathan Powell

I am still slugging away at the schedule. I ran 5 miles on Tuesday, and 5 miles tonight. Tuesday I went pretty fast. I felt like I was pushing the pace, and in the end did not have a great … Continue reading →

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