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<article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/light-sail.html" class="u-url">Light Sail!</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/light-sail.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2015-06-16T19:51:49-05:00" title="2015-06-16">2015-06-16</time></a></p>
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<img alt="Light Sail Mission Patch" class="align-left" src="images/LightSail/light-sail.png" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><p>Growing up in Houston, I have followed our space program off and on. I am also a big reader of Sci-Fi. So, when I heard about the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theplanetarysociety/lightsail-a-revolutionary-solar-sailing-spacecraft/description">Solar Sail Kickstarter Project</a> from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.planetary.org/">The Plantary Socitey</a>, I jumped on board. And, while they have raised almost 4 times their goal, I think that this is a project which will have more of an impact on humanity than some of the other projects.</p>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/moving.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2015-06-12T10:30:39-05:00" title="2015-06-12">2015-06-12</time></a></p>
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<img alt="HP logo" class="align-left" src="images/Moving/HP_logo.png" style="width: 100px; height: 100px;"><p>Well, after 4 years (almost to the day), it is time for me to say good-bye to HP. The team I worked on is a great team who really know their stuff. However, I am a geek, and I want to be doing things with tech, and not talking about tech,, and for the most part, talking is all I have been doing. I have learned a lot and was given a chance to do some <a class="reference external" href="posts/201402travels.html">traveling</a> which I do not think I would have been able to do.</p>
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<p>So, where am I going? Well, until after I start and get on-boarded, I am not sure how much I can say. It is a financial company based in Houston, so I will not be moving the crew, just changing the direction I commute back to into the sun again.</p>
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<p>Stay tuned here for more updates, and I will probably be using this as a place to document some of the new things I learn on the way.</p>
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<p>Peace.</p>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/updates-to-aur-packages.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2015-06-09T17:19:48-05:00" title="2015-06-09">2015-06-09</time></a></p>
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<p>So, with the <a class="reference external" href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#AUR_4">migration of the AUR to version 4</a>, I looked at the 12 AUR packages I had created over the years which I have not looked at in a long, long time.</p>
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<p>The list started out with:</p>
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<a class="reference external" href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-basename/">perl-leocharre-basename</a> - Very basic filename string and path operations such as ext and paths</li>
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<a class="reference external" href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-cli2/">perl-leocharre-cli2</a> - Some quick help for writing cli scripts</li>
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<a class="reference external" href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-strings/">perl-leocharre-strings</a> - Combines string procedures I frequently use</li>
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<a class="reference external" href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-wordpress-api/">perl-wordpress-api</a> - Management of Wordpress API objects. Inherits WordPress::XMLRPC and all its methods</li>
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<a class="reference external" href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xlhtml/">xlhttp</a> - An Excel spreadsheet (.xls) and PowerPoint (.ppt) to HTML converter</li>
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<p>In the end, I only kept <em>xlhttp</em> as I do not use the others anymore. Surprisingly enough, only one of the packages (<em>chronicle</em>) was out of date. I disowned all the others, so if you want, you can pick them up.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/vegas-again.html" class="u-url">Vegas, again</a></h1>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/vegas-again.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2015-06-06T10:06:48-05:00" title="2015-06-06">2015-06-06</time></a></p>
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<p>Once more, off the Las Vegas for to work a trade show. This year, I was helping present training, so I was tucked away in a basement most of the trip, and did not get out to do much in the way of sight-seeing aside from walking around the hotel.</p>
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<p>But, I did find time to snap a few pictures.</p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/quick-ansible-tip.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2015-05-27T07:24:16-05:00" title="2015-05-27">2015-05-27</time></a></p>
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<p>This is a quick post to capture something seen. <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ansible.com">Ansibel</a> is a configuration management tool that I have been learning recently. More details in a future post. This is just to capture this idea:</p>
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<p>From: Smith, Chris (Big Data)</p>
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<p>To: ansible</p>
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<p>Ansible Galaxy is a centralised Github repository of public Ansible content, see: <a class="reference external" href="https://galaxy.ansible.com/">https://galaxy.ansible.com/</a> It uses a local routine that is installed when you install Ansible, called ‘ansible-galaxy’, to create a blank template for your Ansible content. What is not well known is you can run ‘ansible-galaxy’ in offline mode to create a blank template using the command:</p>
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<p># ansible-galaxy init --offline my-role</p>
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<p>Enjoy,</p>
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<p>Chris</p>
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<p>More on this as I get some more back-ends stuff taken care of, like setting up a git repo and maybe auto-deploy from git push?</p>
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