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<p>The list started out with:</p>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chronicle/">chronicle</a> - A simple blog compiler written in Perl</li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://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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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-cli2/">perl-leocharre-cli2</a> - Some quick help for writing cli scripts</li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-debug/">perl-leocharre-debug</a> - Debug subroutines</li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-dir/">perl-leocharre-dir</a> - Subroutines for general directory needs</li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-strings/">perl-leocharre-strings</a> - Combines string procedures I frequently use</li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-string-prettify/">perl-string-prettify</a> - Subroutines to cleanup a filename and or garble for human eyes</li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://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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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-wordpress-cli/">perl-wordpress-cli</a> - Command line access to Wordpress</li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-wordpress-xmlrpc/">perl-wordpress-xmlrpc</a> - API to Wordpress XML RPC calls</li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://aur.archlinux.org/packages/usbmount/">usbmount</a> - Automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices</li>
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<li><a class="reference external" href="html://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xlhtml/">xlhtml</a> - An Excel spreadsheet (.xls) and PowerPoint (.ppt) to HTML converter</li>
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<p>In the end, I only kept <em>xlhtml</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></div></description><category>arch</category><category>linux</category><category>software</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/updates-to-aur-packages.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2015 22:19:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vegas, again</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/vegas-again.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><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></div></description><category>photo</category><category>travel</category><category>work</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/vegas-again.html</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2015 15:06:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quick Ansible Tip</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/quick-ansible-tip.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><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></div></description><category>ansible</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/quick-ansible-tip.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2015 12:24:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>April recap</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/april-recap.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>April has come and gone, and I did not manage to find time (or energy) to post anything.</p>
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<p>I spent most of the month at work getting ready to and then delivering some training remotely in Nashville, TN, US. Now, I can say that I have stayed at the largest non-casino hotel in the world, <a class="reference external" href="http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bnago-gaylord-opryland-resort-and-convention-center/">The Gaylord Opryland</a>. Now that that is over, I get to gear up to design a new training plan for internal product training. Such is the life of a Linux guy stuck working for a marketing group.</p>
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<p>On the home front, we have hit a busy time with soccer, volleyball, dance, and swim time. I think we get a break sometime after the 4th of July.....</p></div></description><category>sitenews</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/april-recap.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2015 01:51:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>March Update</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/march-update.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>Does updating the theme of the site count as an update? No? Okay...time to type.</p>
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<p>Life is busy right now, and extra things are gonna have to give. I have not had a chance to do much photography (both making and processing them), so I am putting the daily site on hold, again. For the sharp eye among you, you would have noticed this last week.</p>
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<p>On the upside, I have lost about 20 pounds since the beginning of the year. While I am not where I want to be weight-wise, I have lost a pants size which puts me back were I was about 10 years ago. Life is good.</p>
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<p>I am going to see about updating things here more often, if nothing else to have a record of things not in a cloud based service which may dramatically change its pricing model on me.</p></div></description><category>sitenews</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/march-update.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:15:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, End Report</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/30daychallengefreebsdsa.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>And, again, I hit something which is causing massive disk performance issues. That, and suspend/resume does not work on either laptop.</p>
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<p>I would try to debug the issues, but that means learning a whole new set of tools, and I will not have time for a while. Next week, I am in week long meetings which will run late every day, and then I have to finish writing and present a training class the last week of the month. The hour or two I can spare will be far better spent for me by backup, re-installing <a class="reference external" href="http://www.archlinux.org">ArchLinux</a> than by starting to learn the tools. Yes, a bit of a cop-out, but I need the machines to do what I need to do. I will keep the servers FreeBSD, however, as it works great there.</p>
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<p>I will revisit the issue of FreeBSD on the laptops when I either get new kit, or support for my models gets better.</p></div></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>linux</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/30daychallengefreebsdsa.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:43:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, Day 30 Update</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-30-update.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>As the month draws to a close, I am further into the switch. I have rebuilt my main laptop to <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PCBSD</a>. I am still setting a few things up, but it seems to be going well.</p>
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<p>Two things I need to fix:</p>
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<li><strong>Skype</strong>: While there is not a native client, there are lots of folks who report success with the Linux client. I will need to do some research.</li>
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<li><strong>Nikola</strong>: The software I use for my blogs. It throws a python error when I run it, so I cannot update things. Again, I think I just need to do some more research.</li>
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<p>Now, the fun of the weekend is here, so I am off!</p></div></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-30-update.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2015 21:38:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>FreeBSD Challenge II, Day 14</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-14.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>Today is day 14 (pushing day 15 at this hour), and things are looking very good. Today, I got word from the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PCBSD Project</a> that a patch which I submitted to fix the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.duckland.org/posts/201407freebsd-switch.html">issue with the WiFi NIC</a>. Well, I got notice today that <a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/7330">PCBSD Bug #7330</a> has been resolved, and I tested on the R810. It works!</p>
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<p>Now, I just need to get a few things configured here first, like snapshots, backups, and porting my SDCARD reading scripts over to FreeBSD, and I should be good.</p>
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<p>Then, fun things like configure &amp; use IPv6. I have two FreeBSD VSP servers to test with...it will be fun!</p></div></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>FreeBSD</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/freebsd-challenge-ii-day-14.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2015 05:51:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Update on revisiting FreeBSD Challenge</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/update-on-revisiting-freebsd-challenge.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>It is the 10th day of the month, and I am 10 days in trying to use FreeBSD as my daily non-work driver. How is it going?</p>
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<p>Well, for the most part, well. I can spend most of my personal work-flow on the FreeBSD laptop with no issues. There are a couple of things I have not moved over yet, and those relate to my photo work-flow. The main application, <a class="reference external" href="http://aftershotpro.com">AfterShotPro</a> is installed and working (see <a class="reference external" href="http://www.duckland.org/posts/201403freebsd-challenge-day-4-6.html">my previous desciption</a> of installing in), however, I have not moved over the scripts I use in the flow. I believe they will just come over, but I have not had a chance to test them.</p>
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<p>I was using <a class="reference external" href="http://chromium.org">Chromium</a>, but any Flash site did not work. I need to revisit this at some point, but for now I went back to Firefox, and it is working create.</p>
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<p>The only major thing right now I need to figure out is how FreeBSD deals with sound. I can hear things from the speakers just fine, but I need to figure out how to enable and use an USB headset. Not the biggest, but still. I also need to either install &amp; configure Skype, or find a replacement video chat to use with the wife while traveling that works under FreeBSD. I like the second option better, but I have not really had the time to do the research.</p>
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<p>And, the new site generating suite I am using works under FreeBSD. I wrote and posted this from the FreeBSD laptop.</p>
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<p>More updates soon.</p></div></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/update-on-revisiting-freebsd-challenge.html</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 04:35:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Goodbye 2014!</title><link>http://www.duckland.org/posts/goodbye-2014.html</link><dc:creator>Don Harper</dc:creator><description><div><p>As 2014 draws to a close, I look back at the year.</p>
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<p>Overall, it was a good year. The family staid reasonably health (just a case of the flu which every one of us caught).</p>
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<p>Work slowed down a bit after only three trips, and the last one was in June, but I did get to spend two weeks in London which was cool. While the work has been not what I really want to be doing, it has been interesting, and next year promises to be very interesting. I have no clue if travel is in the cards or not, but I will keep the camera handy.</p>
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<p>In the coming year, I plan to focus on health, photography, and technology. I want to get back to taking photos every day, and to bring the quality back up to art level over the snapshots and historical documentation that I have been doing.</p>
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<p>Also, I want to revisit the 30 Day FreeBSD challenge again in January. I have the old HP R810 running <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PCBSD 10.1</a> already set up that I have been using for a couple of days working the kinks out of it, so I think I can do it this time. Normal caveat applies...I have a work laptop which dual boots Windows 8.1 and Fedora 21 for my work stuff. The home stuff should work nicely on the laptop.</p>
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<p>Just to prove things, this post was written under FreeBSD.</p>
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<p>I also need to fix up my virtual host farm. I have one too many, and do not need it, but of course, it is the one with the main mail and other services, so I need to hurry up and migrate things off of it.</p>
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<p>I hope your 2015 is a great year.</p></div></description><category>30DayChallenge</category><category>personeal</category><category>photo</category><category>sa</category><guid>http://www.duckland.org/posts/goodbye-2014.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:44:55 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss> |