zaylea.motd.org

So me, Matthew (mjt), Micah (micahb), and Mark (flakblas) were the only ones that showed up for the SDF DC Meetup, which I think was a pretty good turn out. We had lunch at the National Museum of the American Indian, where the cafeteria is the highlight of the museum. There was also a flying spaghetti monster sighting here. Then we wandered around some art museums looking at rectangles (they sometimes had paint on them) so that we could feel cultured.

There's a picture here Left to right: micahb, flakblas, me, mjt

Where: Cafe Renee on the mezzanine level of Union Station, in DC.
When: Monday, May 5th, 2008 at 1pm (although some of us may be there by 11am)

Depending on the weather, we'll likely wander around DC and visit a few museums or whatever. Mostly a we'll-decide-when-we-get-there thing.

If you have any questions, post them as a comment to this page. Also, if you intend on coming, post a comment stating that too.

Jennifer (zaylea) will be wearing her big obvious 20th anniversary SDF shirt, and hopefully the others will be wearing SDF swag too.

This is a script to automatically update your IP on SDF's mdns.org.
It saves the last IP you sent to mdns in local file and if the IP has changed
it will send the update. This script works even behind NAT. Run it as a cron
job to be "automatic".

It requires pexpect: http://pexpect.sourceforge.net
pexpect requires a POSIX operating system (i.e. not windows, but linux, Mac OS X, etc.)

Update: I didn't realize that SDF had a page to check your IP. It's at http://sdf.lonestar.org/ip/ (thanks randy).
You can change the IP_CHECK_URL to that and the script will still work because it just uses a regex to find an IP on the page.

I had this conversation this morning. I'm not one to judge, but wtf. (see full post)

My neighbor has this hedge. I just moved here a few weeks ago, and everyday I'd walk past it and think it reminded me of something I couldn't quite put my finger on it. (see attachment)

Ok so I finally set up my motd.org site with drupal. I only had one problem to resolve so it was painless.

I didn't use the motd command to set up drupal because I wanted the latest version. My only problem was I had was a complaint about mbstring settings. Drupal tries to modify these settings in .htaccess but that doesn't work on SDF. This was resolved by adding this to the top of install.php and sites/default/default.settings.php:

ini_set('mbstring.http_input','pass');
ini_set('mbstring.http_output','pass');


Maybe someday when I'm bored I'll actually add this version of drupal to motd's RCS.